יום שישי, 7 אוגוסט 2026Friday, August 7, 2026
Follow Us
יום שישי, כ״ד אב תשפ״וFriday, August 7, 2026
Follow Us

Sections

Analysis

Analysis

Approaching the Holocaust as a Moral Choice: Part VII: Providing Legitimacy for Murdering Civilians 

By Alex Grobman PhD.

The advanced education and culture of the Nazi officers proved no impediment to their murdering innocent civilians.

Analysis

Part VI: Approaching the Holocaust a Moral Choice 

By Alex Grobman PhD.

The accusation that Jews posed a threat to the German army was ludicrous.

Analysis

Part V : Approaching the Holocaust as A Moral Choice

By Alex Grobman PhD.

Those who served as executioners compensated themselves with money pilfered from their Jewish victims

The Ettinger Report

Conventional Wisdom vs. Evidenced-Reality

By Yoram Ettinger

US State Department policy-making has been at odds with Mid East reality (evidence), elevating conventional wisdom (worldview) over the inconvenient truths and frustrating complexities of the jerkily-cyclical Middle Eastern reality.

Analysis

Part IV Approaching the Holocaust as A Moral Choice (cont.) 

By Alex Grobman PhD.

There were no legal, bureaucratic, administrative, or other obstacles and limitations to impede their mission to annihilate the Jews and other perceived enemies of the Third Reich

The Ettinger Report

Israel Supported US Repeatedly Over the Years

By Yoram Ettinger

The Jewish state has given the United States invaluable intelligence and military expertise, and protects American interests in the Middle East.

Analysis

Part II: Approaching the Holocaust as A Moral Choice 

By Alex Grobman PhD.

The goal of the 'War Against the Jews' was to construct “a utopian society organized in accordance with the principles of race.”

The Ettinger Report

Biden’s Middle East Visit: The Nuts and Bolts

By Yoram Ettinger

When considering Biden’s demands for Israeli concessions, Israeli Prime Minister Lapid should study the conduct of previous Israeli premiers.

Analysis

Part I: Approaching the Holocaust as A Moral Choice

By Alex Grobman PhD.

The question of how and why the Holocaust occurred in Western civilization remains an issue of concern because it reveals something about the nature of our society and humanity.

Analysis

“Assassins in White Coats” 

By Alex Grobman PhD.

Nazi medicine played a fundamental part in implementing “the racial policy of a powerful, modern state and it enjoyed approval by wide parts of the whole nation.”

Op-Eds / Analysis

Islamic Antisemitism Drives the Arab-Israeli Conflict

By Mark Durie

To look at the Jews through the frame of the Qur'an is to see them as contemptible, weak, cowardly-yet-warmongering, treacherous losers.

Analysis

What is the “Status Quo” on the Temple Mount?

By Maurice Hirsch

NO Israeli government ever ratified Dayan’s agreement. To this day, the “status quo” on the Temple Mount is that the internal part of the site is run by the Waqf and Israel is responsible for the external security and maintaining public order. 

Analysis

Part VII: CONCLUSION: The Holocaust Has NO Equivalents

By Alex Grobman PhD.

Though these comparisons assist us in understanding the Nazi period, they can lead to the wrong conclusion that Nazi's hated all groups equally.all

Analysis

Pal Mob Attempted Hijack Conversion at Shireen Abu Akleh's Funeral

By Itamar Marcus

Once returned, the body was transported to the church in the hearse under Israeli protection according to plan.

Analysis

Part V: Did the Germans Treat the Jews and the Gypsies in the Same Manner?

By Alex Grobman PhD.

A number of leading Holocaust historians refute the notion the Germans dealt with the Gypsies in the same manner they did with the Jews

Analysis

Welcome to the Fight, Jonathan: ADL Leader Discovers Left-Wing Antisemitism

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt started talking the talk on left-wing antisemitism.

Analysis

‘IRGC has Covert Presence in Red Sea,’ says Top Defense Researcher

By Yaakov Lappin

Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Segall, a senior analyst at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, discusses Iranian intelligence-gathering and attack vessels active in the region.

Analysis

EU-funded NGO is Working to Drive a Wedge Between Israeli-Arabs and Jewish State, Report Says

By David Isaac

Israel is not taking the threat posed by NGOs like Palestinian Vision seriously enough, according to the head of Zionist NGO Im Tirtzu’s Arabic language research department.

Analysis

This Is How Yahya Sinwar Paved His Way to Center Stage – at the Expense of a Confused Israel

By Baruch Yedid / TPS

Yahya al-Sinwar, who barely won a second term in office, is cementing his control over the Gaza Strip, at the expense of Israeli civilians as well as the Palestinian Authority.

The Ettinger Report

2022 Jewish Demographic Momentum in Israel

By Yoram Ettinger

The GREAT NEWS: Israeli Jews are not merely good in math, they are VERY GOOD in multiplication!

The Ettinger Report

Inflation 2022: Palestinian Demography

By Yoram Ettinger

The GOOD NEWS: Official Palestinian demographic numbers are highly-inflated, as documented by a study, which has been conducted since 2004:

Analysis

Changes to the ‘Status Quo’ on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount since 1967

By Nadav Shragai / Israel Hayom

A close look shows that far from claims by the Arabs, Muslims’ status and hold on the Temple Mount have greatly improved.

Analysis

Part I : Were the Sinti and Roma (Gypsies) Destined for Total Destruction like the Jews?

By Alex Grobman PhD.

Jews were not the only biologically chosen group to be murdered. They also included the Sinti and Roma. Who were they?

Headline / Op-Eds / Analysis

The Russia-Ukraine War and Its Legal and Political Implications

By Amb. Alan Baker

Palestinian spokespeople are expressing considerable concern and indignation that the international community, including those same international judicial bodies in which they actively engage, are immersed in the legal proceedings regarding the Russia-Ukraine war, rather than pursuing Israel.

Op-Eds / Analysis

The West Cannot Afford Complacency Regarding Iranian Threat

By Amb. Dore Gold

Without some major change in Iranian intentions, European countries could soon become targets of Iran’s increasingly robust missile forces. As Iranian and Western negotiators reportedly edge closer to agreement on Iran’s nuclear future, many commentators will be asking themselves a similar question. Will a new deal endure and provide stability for the Middle East and […]

Op-Eds / Analysis

US Determined to Return to Dangerous Iran Deal at ANY Cost: The Implications for Israel

By JCFA- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs

If Iran decides to enrich its current stock of uranium to a military grade, it could have enough for four nuclear devices within four months.

Analysis

Part XXIII: Acknowledging the Truth About the Final Solution  

By Alex Grobman PhD.

Reports of the mass murder of  Russian Jews began to appear in July 1941. By late 1941, it was accepted fact that some Jewish communities were systematically and methodically murdered.

Analysis

'We Were Wrong to Think Totalitarianism Would Disappear Peacefully'

By Israel Hayom

Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, has already been living in Germany for a year, where she misses her homeland Belarus and is watching what is happening in Ukraine in horror. "Putin's rule is reminiscent of what happened in the 1930s," she tells Israel Hayom in an exclusive interview.

Analysis

European Dependence on Russian Gas Revives Debate on EastMed Pipeline

By David Isaac

Prior to the war in Ukraine, energy issues were judged by a single yardstick: their environmental impact. What the West is coming to realize is that energy is also about national security and deterrence, said Aykan Erdemir, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

Analysis

Joseph Lieberman: US Inaction Against Russia Empowers Iran

By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman

“The Russian invasion of Ukraine should remind us that there are nations you simply cannot trust,” said former senator Joseph Lieberman.

Analysis

Part XXI: Response to Bund Report

By Alex Grobman PhD.

Significantly, in Roosevelt’s message and the one sent by Winston Churchill, each supportive, there is no mention of rescue. 

Analysis

Part XX: The Massacres Could No Longer Be Ignored 

By Alex Grobman PhD.

Due to the unprecedented dimension of what had occurred, historian Yehuda Bauer added another dimension. He said there is a distinction between having received news about the extermination of the Jews of Europe, and accepting the reports as accurate

Analysis

Islamic State is Resurgent in Iraq, Syria and Africa

By Col. Dr. Jacques Neriah

While the elimination of its leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi by U.S. special forces dealt ISIS a setback, it has managed to reorganize and recover from its 2017 defeat.

Analysis

Part XIX: No Respite in Reports of Mass Slaughter

By Alex Grobman PhD.

A Hungarian soldier said at one great tract of land near Kiev, he saw the ground “move in waves.” Why? The Germans had systematically executed thousands of Jews and had buried their victims even before they were dead.

Analysis

Pegasus Scandal May Impact Netanyahu Corruption Trial, Experts Say

By David Isaac

While the Israel Police and the Attorney General’s Office have pushed back against allegations of illegal evidence-gathering, senior Hebrew University lecturer Gadi Taub dismissed the responses as “spin.”

Analysis

Israel Grapples with High Cost of Living as Citizens Grumble over Rising Prices

By David Isaac

“Reduce all the tariffs, all the quotas and all the NTBs—they are adding 40% to 80% to the cost of most products,” said Elise Brezis, professor of economics at Bar-Ilan University and director of the Azrieli Center for Economic Policy. “That’s the first thing the government has to do. When they do that, then there will be a big change. The rest is commentary.”

Analysis

Israeli Settlement Evyatar Passes First Hurdles, Raising Tensions in Coalition

By David Isaac

“Substantively, it’s not that big an issue. We’re not talking about a big defensive settlement, but in politics, symbols often are more important than substance,” said Yechiel Leiter, senior fellow at the Kohelet Policy Forum.

Analysis

Part XVII: Systematically and Methodically Murdered

By Alex Grobman PhD.

The AJC voiced its outrage that no voice had been raised by either by the US or the British Government expressing the “horror of free humanity at this cold-bloodied extermination of a people.” After all, these massacres were published in the Jewish press and confirmed by the general press in England and America.

Analysis

Part XVI: Soviet Entry into the War and News from the Front

By Alex Grobman PhD.

To assist the Soviet Union in its war against Germany, American Jews supported aid to Russia

Analysis

Clash Between Michigan Reps. Levin, Stevens Microcosm of Democrat Split on Israel

By Dmitriy Shapiro (JNS)

Rep. Andy Levin and Rep. Haley Stevens both running in newly formed 11th Congressional District, which will become the most Jewish district in MI. Stevens is backed by mainstream pro-Israel groups such as Pro-Israel America, while Levin is supported by J Street.

Analysis

Arrested for Helping Jews Under Siege by Arab Neighbors

By Sheri Oz

He was amazed by what he saw. There were secular people, religious people, residents of Judea and Samaria – who came to show the Jewish residents of Ramla that they were not alone.

Analysis

An Independent Kurdistan May Help Topple Iran's Ayatollahs' Regime

By Rachel Avraham

Only a small minority of Shia Persians are ruling over the vast majority, who don’t fall under this category.

In Print / Analysis / Werth's Week

Texas Hostage Drama Prompts Calls For Security Upgrades, Antisemitism Education

By Eve Glover and Aryeh Werth

You have to be living on a different planet not to understand that when a hostage taker goes into a Jewish synagogue, on the Jewish Sabbath, and holds the rabbi and congregants at gun point, he is intentionally targeting Jewish people with violence.

Analysis

Part XIII: What Awaited the Jews in the Polish Ghettos

By Alex Grobman PhD.

They were murdered because they “could no longer manufacture guns in return for the food which they consumed;"

Analysis

Has Situation Between Israeli Government and Bedouins Reached a Breaking Point?

By Israel Kasnett

Millions of Israelis are furious over the government’s caving to the rioting and its alleged plan to recognize these illegal Bedouin encampments situated on state lands, claiming that such capitulation will only lead to further unrest and violence.

Analysis

Part XII: The Fall of France  

By Alex Grobman PhD.

The Onslaught Against the Jews Continues...

The Ettinger Report

Israel's Aid Program to US in 2022

By Yoram Ettinger

Don't worry America, Israel's here to help.

The Ettinger Report

US ‘Foreign Aid’ to Israel: What’s in it for America?

By Yoram Ettinger

The annual $3.8 billion U.S. investment in Israel saves U.S. lives, strengthens U.S. security and yields an annual rate of return of several hundred percent.

Analysis

Should Israel Have Halted Offshore Gas Licenses to Encourage Renewables?

By David Isaac

Elai Rettig, assistant professor at the Department of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University, says Energy Minister Karine Elharrar’s refusal to award new offshore licenses for gas exploration is “odd” because “she positions it as against gas. One doesn't have to come at the expense of the other.”

Analysis

Part X: The Peace Institutes

By Alex Grobman PhD.

Twenty thousand Jews lived in Tarnow before the war, but after Hitler, there were no more 20

Analysis

The Nakba: The Sin and its Aftermath

By Abraham Sion

The Arab Nakba did not result from the establishment of the State of Israel. It was because of their endeavor to annihilate the newly born State of Israel, and their failure to achieve their purpose.

Analysis

Why Israel Must Continue to Support Azerbaijan

By Rachel Avraham

Earlier this year, there were indications that Azerbaijan would be willing to host a trilateral conference between Turkey and Israel.

The Ettinger Report

The US and the Iranian Octopus

By Yoram Ettinger

Iran’s ayatollahs have been energized by the apparent U.S. shift of paradigm from military to diplomacy, rejection of regime change and tendency to accommodate and appease.

Headline / Analysis

Yom HaGirush: The Inside Story of ‘Expulsion Day’

By Edwin Black

That name, Yom HaGirush, marks when Jewish communities across many countries were once again dispossessed, but became repossessed in the free nation of Israel.

Analysis

Part VII: Critical Condition of Jews in Europe 

By Alex Grobman PhD.

During 1941 Jewish suffering defied description, yet by 1942 they had mastered techniques that most likely would have enabled them to survive the war, had the Nazis not launched a systematic campaign to annihilate them.  

Analysis

Does a Palestinian “Right of Return” Exist in International Law?

By Amb. Alan Baker

On November 9, 2021, the Fourth (Special Political Committee) of the United Nations General Assembly’s 76th Session voted to adopt a draft resolution entitled “Assistance to Palestine refugees.”1 This resolution, adopted annually for over 70 years, calls inter alia for continued assistance for Palestinian refugees and continued support for the work of the United Nations Relief and Works […]

Analysis

Part VI: Aid to Britain

By Alex Grobman PhD.

Lindbergh, one of the most famous and vocal opponents of American assistance to Britain, and a supporter of the antiwar America First Committee, stated in a speech on April 23, 1941: “We have been led toward war by a minority of our people. This minority has power. It has influence. It has a loud voice…" And who do you think that Lindbergh was referring to?

Analysis

The Jews and Roosevelt 

By Alex Grobman PhD.

Roosevelt’s attitude toward Jews, which “was complicated,” While he surrounded himself with Jewish advisors, he did little at all to help the Jews in peril

In Print / Analysis

Just Say Nisht? As Vaccine Mandates Expand, Some Jews Consider Religious Exemptions

By Aryeh Werth

Despite the overwhelming support for vaccination by rabbonim and medical experts, hesitancy persists in a small but vocal segment of the frum community for several reasons.

Analysis

Ra’am Lawmakers Wage ‘Civil Jihad’

By Nadav Shragai / Israel Hayom

The Islamist party now holds the Bennett-Lapid government hostage with the aim of destroying Israel’s Jewish character.

The Ettinger Report

United Jerusalem: A Shared US-Israel Legacy and Interest

By Yoram Ettinger

PM Bennett should heed Israel’s Founding Father, David Ben-Gurion, who stated: “Jerusalem is equal to the whole of the Land of Israel.”

Analysis

Being Forced to Spy for Germany: Part III

By Alex Grobman PhD.

Historian Ted Morgan wrote that the daily FBI reports Roosevelt received about Nazis and Communists efforts to subvert the US, “some of which were farfetched” still “influenced his thinking.” FBI director J. Herbert Hoover claimed that the National Maritime Union had a Communist on every board. 

Analysis

The Battle for the US Consulate in Jerusalem

By Nadav Shragai / Israel Hayom

The White House is threatening to unilaterally impose the opening of a U.S. consulate for Palestinians in Jerusalem, regardless of Israel’s fierce opposition to the move, as well as allowing a PLO office to again operate in Washington. But such a move could cause a perilous domino effect.

Analysis

Will US Deny Israel Sovereignty over Jerusalem by Opening Consulate for Palestinian Authority?

By Israel Kasnett

The Biden administration’s plan would divide the united capital of Jerusalem and push any chance for peace with the Palestinians farther away, as well as break diplomatic norms, violate U.S. law and damage America’s special relationship with Israel.

Analysis

The Systemic Failure of Israel’s Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria

By Maurice Hirsch

While I would like to believe that those who who serve in the body established in 1981 are good people, the entire mechanism is rotten to its core.

Analysis

Widespread Antisemitism, Nativism, and a Policy of “America First”: Part I

By Alex Grobman PhD.

Opposition to immigration continued even during wartime prosperity

The Ettinger Report

America’s Enemies Bite the Hands that Feed Them

By Yoram Ettinger

Western democracies, in general, and the United States, in particular, must enhance their military posture of deterrence and pursue peace through strength, rather than through concessions and retreat.

Analysis

Why the US Really Wants a Palestinian Authority Consulate in Jerusalem

By Eugene Kontorovich

The Biden administration knows it does not have domestic support to completely "unrecognize" Jerusalem—so it is catering to far-left demands by undoing the natural consequences of recognition.

Holidays / The Ettinger Report

Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) Guide for the Perplexed, 2021

By Yoram Ettinger

Yom Kippur is considered to be a Super Sabbath (Shabbat Shabbaton in Hebrew) – a soul-searching opportunity for pious and evil people alike.

Op-Eds / Analysis

The Taliban’s Palestinian Partners: Implications for the Middle East Peace Process

By JCFA- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs

Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad see the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan as vindicating their longstanding ideological claims that patience pays off and that “resistance” can defeat the American-led Western alliance and dismantle the State of Israel.

Analysis

Throughout August, Israel Faced Terrorist Attacks on All Fronts

By IPT-Investigative Project on Terrorism

One of the easiest ways for Israel's enemies to divert attention from internal problems is to attack the Jewish state. And nothing works like terror

Analysis

An Abbreviated History of Zionism*

By Alex Grobman PhD.

Israel was created in 1948 in 17% of the area allotted by the Balfour Declaration. The Allies had gained a vast area from the Turks during the war, and the British took 1% of the land the Great Powers acquired from the Turks to establish a Jewish Homeland

The Ettinger Report

2021 Afghanistan is NOT 1975 Vietnam

By Yoram Ettinger

Unlike in 1975, the U.S. now faces only the choice of whether to confront the enemy on their own territory or on American soil.

Analysis

Lessons for Israel from the Taliban Victory

By Gregg Roman

The scenes of a Taliban victory in Afghanistan have resonated very differently in various parts of the world and hold many lessons, especially for Israel.

The Ettinger Report

Biden’s Middle East policy

By Yoram Ettinger

The Biden team has attempted to base its Middle East policy on the noble values of human rights and democracy, which are inconsistent with the Arab Middle East.

Analysis

Why the Media is Drawn To Israel

By Alex Grobman PhD.

Have you ever wondered why the international media is drawn to Israel and how they get their reporting so wrong?

The Ettinger Report

The Two-State Solution

By Yoram Ettinger

Contrary to US expectations a Palestinian state would add a rogue regime to the stormy region, intensify terrorism and war, inflame regional instability, exacerbate the Israel-Palestinian conflict, undermine the expansion of the Israel-Arab peace process, generate tailwind to rogue entities and cripple US interests. Basically, NOT a good idea

Analysis

History of the Arab Boycott and Its Resurgence

By Alex Grobman PhD.

BDS is one of the weapons employed to destroy the liberal democratic state of Israel. For many BDS supporters, Israel is a proxy for West.

Analysis / Jordan

Balance of Power Moves in Iran’s Favor in Gulf & Jordan, as America Pulls Back from Region

By Ariel Ben Solomon / JNS

Partly driving the shift “is the weakness the United States is showing towards Iran in its efforts to reduce its presence in the Middle East and bolster its position in the Far East against the growing Chinese challenge,” said Bar-Ilan Professor Hillel Frisch, a Middle East expert at the BESA Center.

Featured / Analysis

US Anti-BDS Laws May Cause Financial Meltdown for Ben & Jerry’s and Unilever

By Sean Savage

“By virtue of its wayward subsidiary, Unilever—a massive international conglomerate—risks potentially crushing financial consequences in terms of its ability to receive investments from, or do business with, the majority of U.S. states,” said Brooke Goldstein of the Lawfare Project.

Featured / Analysis

Will Bennett Allow US to Rollback Recognition of Israel’s Capital and Redivide Jerusalem?

By Alex Traiman

A push to reopen a shuttered consulate to the Palestinian Authority in Jerusalem is a first major foreign-policy test for Israel’s fragile coalition. Former Mayor Nir Barkat warns that Israel’s prime minister “must not allow a move that will divide Jerusalem, the capital of Israel forever and ever.”

The Ettinger Report

Israel’s Evolution into a US Force Multiplier

By Yoram Ettinger

If there were an Israel-like entity in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. could terminate its military presence in the region.

Dr. Mordechai Kedar

Mansour Abbas and the Lebanonization of Israel

By Dr. Mordechai Kedar

The Islamic Movement in Israel is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, the ideological hothouse that spawned such organizations as Hamas, al-Qaeda, ISIS, and various other Sunni jihadist groups that reject Israel’s right to exist. Giving the Islamic Movement a kosher stamp of approval sets Israel on the same destructive path trod by Lebanon ever since Hezbollah became part of that country.

J.E. Dyer

Israel, Iran, Hamas, and Why it’s Not 2014 Anymore

By J. E. Dyer

Hamas' purpose was to attack the unity of the de facto Middle East coalition – a coalition against radical Iran – forming through the Abraham Accords.  The premise of the attack was that framing the conflict as a response to an outrage against Al Aqsa, and forcing Israel to strike back hard, would peel away the Arab partners to the Abraham Accords.

Analysis

How did Hamas Grow its Arsenal Under the Blockade?

By Israel Hayom

In latest clashes, Islamist terrorist group has fired over 4,000 rockets at Israel in recent clashes, some hitting deeper in Israeli territory and with greater accuracy than ever before.

Featured / Analysis

The Sheikh Jarrah Property Dispute and the False Claim of Israeli Land Discrimination

By Avi Bell

The claim that Israeli law permits Jews to reclaim ownership of lands they owned prior to 1948 but denies Palestinians such a right is false in every particular.

Headline / Dr. Mordechai Kedar

The Jihad Within Israel

By Dr. Mordechai Kedar

The explosion of mass violence by Israeli Arabs against their fellow Jewish citizens is nothing short of a religious war and has to be treated as such.

Featured / Analysis

Understanding the Sheikh Jarrah/Shimon Hatzadik Property Dispute

By Avi Bell

Israel’s critics have distorted the facts, perverted international law and attempted to intimidate courts and law enforcement officials into adopting the critics’ bigotry.

Headline / Analysis

‘Muslim Historians Consistently Confirm Jewish Ties to Jerusalem’

By Israel Hayom

Sure to ruffle a few feathers, “Islam, Jews and the Temple Mount” lays out how the Muslim narrative about the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount has been distorted.

Analysis

The REAL Source of Jerusalem's Violence

By Palestinian Media Watch

PA TV broadcast a terror-promoting song and accompanying visuals of violence at least 20 times. Focusing on influencing the youth, PA TV also broadcast the song during the 4:00-5:00 p.m. time slot for children's programming.

Analysis

Senate Democrats Unlikely to Challenge Biden Administration Over Reentry to Iran Nuclear Deal

By Dmitriy Shapiro (JNS)

“The administration will be questioned or criticized by some Democrats on the Hill, but it will move forward just as in 2015, without regard to their worries," said Elliott Abrams, former U.S. Special Representative for Venezuela and Iran in the Trump administration

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter IV

By Ruchama Feuerman

View all
cross