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Opinions

OP-ED: Exposing Gaza genocide liars one fact at a time

By JAMES SINKINSON

(JNS.org) – In June, Spanish President Pedro Sanchez joined the shameless chorus of Israel’s slanderers, asserting, falsely, that Gaza is in a “catastrophic situation of genocide.”

Israel’s enemies—college radicals, mainstream media, NGOs, U.N. officials, celebrities and...

OP-ED: The math doesn’t add up when it comes to Hamas

By GARY EPSTEIN

(JNS.org) – Before the horrors of attempting to teach freshman composition catapulted me into law school, the default choice for those without useful skills, I taught English at a large Midwestern state university. Like most humanities departments...

OP-ED: Defending Hamas ‘journalism’ means spreading antisemitic lies, not press freedom

By JONATHAN S. TOBIN

(JNS.org) – The death of Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif and other Palestinians who also falsely claimed to be journalists is being portrayed in much of the international media as just the latest in a long list of atrocities committed by...

OP-ED: American Jews, this is your war, too

By STEPHEN M. FLATOW

(JNS.org) – Let’s be honest: Benjamin Netanyahu is not everyone’s favorite politician. That’s fair. Debate over policy, leadership and politics is healthy in any democracy, including Israel’s. But there comes a point in times of war...

OP-ED: Seeing is not believing

By ALAN SMASON

We are living in a time we can no longer trust our senses or sensibilities. In the past we could trust what we could hear and see with absolute certainty. If we saw a TV report showing...

OP-ED: Violence in Syria shakes Mideast power alignments

By SHIMON SHERMAN

(JNS.org) – Over the past month, a steady stream of optimistic reports suggested that normalization between Israel and the recently installed al-Sharaa government in Damascus was within reach.

Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former ISIS and Al-Qaeda commander who...

OP-ED: Videos expose the Syrian regime’s ethnic cleansing of Druze

By HANY GHORABA

Editor’s note: The videos contained in this article are disturbing and contain graphic scenes of violence and death. Parents are warned against sharing with children.

(JNS.org) – The newly formed Islamist regime in Syria, established as former Al-Qaeda...

OP-ED: The dangerous illusion of friendship with Qatar and other hostile ‘allies’

By STEPHEN M. FLATOW

(JNS.org) – The United States continues to cling to the fiction that countries like Qatar, Turkey and others in the region are “strategic partners,” despite overwhelming evidence that these states are undermining U.S. interests, funding extremists and...

OP-ED: NEA’s break with the ADL is no badge of honor

By RACHEL SAPOZNIK

(JNS.org) – The National Education Association’s decision to sever ties with the Anti-Defamation League is a seismic moment in the American Jewish story. This is not just another news cycle. It is a moment of reckoning. One that...

OP-ED: The antisemitic spree by Elon Musk’s Grok xAI makes it clear: AI poses a real threat to Jews

By DAVID ZVI KALMAN

(JTA) — Earlier this week, Grok — the AI chatbot owned by Elon Musk’s xAI — decided to go full Nazi. Posting on X, it used antisemitic tropes and advocated for a new Holocaust, all the...