Sen. Kerry´s language has emboldened anti-American officials in Iran. The Democratic Party’s presidential front-runner, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), has pledged that if elected he will abandon the president’s war on terror, begin a dialogue with terrorist regimes and apologize for three-and-one-half years of mistakes by the Bush administration. In a sweeping foreign-policy address to the […]

The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz John W. Wiley & Sons, 264 pp., $19.95 Right to Exist: A Moral Defense of Israel’s Wars by Yaacov Lozowick Doubleday, 336 pp., $26 Support Any Friend: Kennedy’s Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-Israel Alliance by Warren Bass Oxford, 360 pp., $30 Middle East Illusions: Reflections […]

The proposal for a unilateral Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip has raised a number of urgent questions. Leading Israeli military experts are warning that a unilateral Israeli withdrawal would lead to an increase in Palestinian Arab terrorism against Israelis. It would send a clear message that murdering Jews brings results, without the Palestinian Authority […]

http://www.jewishworldreview.com | A generation ago, Jewish students stormed the citadels of American Jewish power, intent on changing the way our institutions did business. The focus of the Jewish students of the 1970s was on getting a tired and disengaged organizational world to speak up about the plight of Soviet Jewry, and to infuse more Jewish […]

Moments after the latest bus bombing in Jerusalem, the group claiming responsibility, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, identified its action as an expression of “freedom fighting.” Plainly, however, there is no cause on the face of this bleeding planet that can ever warrant the deliberate mutilation and murder of defenseless civilians riding on a municipal bus. […]

Introduction The resurgence of antisemitism has two distinguishable new characteristics: a) the anti-Jewish positions are presented as a just response to Israel’s conduct in its conflict with the Palestinians; and b) the Arab media are the source of most of this anti-Jewish propaganda. This calls for special attention to the issue of Arab antisemitism, which […]

The International Court of Justice in the Hague is being asked by the U.N. General Assembly to provide advice on the ”legal consequences” of Israel’s security fence. Predating the request for advice was a November report from U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan detailing the harm to Palestinians said to result from the fence and a […]

I’m a ninth grader at Edgemont High School in Scarsdale, New York. As such, I live in a town, and region, of the country that is largely populated by liberals. In fact, in my social milieu, it has become a custom to be liberal. This custom alienates me because I am not a liberal. I […]

Last October, the ZOA’s Center for Law and Justice (ZOA-CLJ) filed suit in the federal district court in Washington, D.C. on behalf of an American couple living in Jerusalem, alleging that Secretary of State Colin Powell and the State Department violated federal law by refusing to recognize their infant son’s birthplace as Israel on his […]

His latest lethal weapon? Mel’s film promises spiritual inspiration but instead evokes the kind of rage that for centuries past resulted in ruthless acts of retribution. Soon we’ll find out who is more powerful, Mel Gibson or Pope John XXIII. Shortly before his death in 1963, the spiritual leader of Catholics round the world composed […]