Dr. Fiamma Nirenstein is an Italian-Israeli journalist, author and senior research fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. An adviser on antisemitism to Israel’s Foreign Minister, she served in the Italian Parliament (2008-2013) as Vice President of the Foreign Affairs Committee. A founding member of the Friends of Israel Initiative, she has written 13 books, including Israel Is Us (2009), and is a leading voice on Israel, the Middle East, Europe and the fight against antisemitism.
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Israel understands that its survival is at stake. But the West does not.
Israel’s enemies still believe it can be broken with rockets or rhetoric. They are wrong.
Weaponizing ‘Hava Nagila’ and the fires that blaze in Israel
By placing the only democratically elected leader in the Middle East on the same level as Yahya Sinwar, the mass-murdering head of Hamas, the ICC has exposed its own moral and procedural collapse.
Like the lengthy campaign against Italy's Silvio Berlusconi, this one seeks to politically dismantle the prime minister by painting him as an authoritarian threat to democracy.
After the events of Oct. 7, ordinary people can only laugh at the thought of arresting Netanyahu. They know the truth and fear that the violence of lunatics and jihadists will be strengthened by the ICC’s ruling.
Israel faces an existential battle and the West sleeps on.
They left their homes and jobs in an instant, and will remain in the field until Hamas is destroyed.
Blaming Hamas for 1,400 cold-blooded murders is not complicated
At the U.N., the prime minister described an extraordinary vision of peace for the region and the world.
The Islamic Republic’s drones are not only intended for Israel but for Ukraine as well.
Rather than criticize the Biden administration for the Kabul debacle, Europeans are reverting to their misplaced contempt for the United States.
How can the EU pay homage to a country that has made the destruction of the Jewish state and hatred of America its principal banner?
All an umpteenth conference will achieve is to dash any hope for peace that the Palestinian people might have, but are not able voice in the earshot of their leaders.
The press and political echelon have been transferring blame for the president’s behavior to the more than 70 million Americans who voted for him, making the prospect of a balanced future in the United States almost impossible.
The Israeli operation is one that a large part of the Islamic world will welcome, as it helps transcend the fear of Sunni terrorist organizations and shows that Iran can be beaten on its own terrain.
As renowned conservative intellectual Victor Davis Hanson, author of “The Case for Trump,” has said, the chasm between the American elites and Trump marks a definitive “clash of civilizations.
The coronavirus pandemic has rebooted the classic medieval Jew-hatred seen during the Black Plague. Today, in the age of a sovereign Jewish state, it has been redirected to demonize Israel.
The young people destroying shops, stealing goods, shooting and beating have been shaped by a culture that bows to suffering and elevates victimhood.
ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s move to charge Israel with war crimes, particularly during the coronavirus pandemic, is blight on her role and integrity.
The Jewish people can again be delegitimized and considered deplorable in the name of the virus.
The coronavirus crisis has revitalized the national idea and cast into doubt an international unity that has proven to be rhetorical, useless and bureaucratic.
{Originally posted to the JCPA website} Anti-Semitism turns dangerous when it becomes the organizing principle of a society, which occurred during the last century under Nazism and Communism. Anti-Semitism was a basic domineering system of thought for both, binding together the cultural and social mosaics by catering to the general mood of their populaces. Anti-Semitism […]
In every generation there arises...
The truth is that even the most dedicated research on how to deal with the migrants, divide the refugees from economic migrants, and establish a legality connected to a moral stance does not work. At the end of the day, both the nations that have welcomed these migrants and the countries that keep them out are all on the same page
Holocaust denial is a kind of amoral cultural Alzheimer’s, and what makes it worse is that, unlike dementia, it is an intentional disease
When it comes to double standards, Israel is the ideal target for every kind of persecution. It is part of a gross pattern in which Israel—which represents the collective Jew—is repeatedly condemned by all the anti-Semites of the world.
After the missiles and tunnels, terror comes in the form of masses of people sent to storm the Israel-Gaza border in another instance of using Palestinians as pawns.


