David Gerstman
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Washington, DC, United States
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Suspect Arrested in Recent Brutal Antisemitic Attack in Crown Heights
The brick used in the Aug. 27 assault. Photo: Screenshot. A suspect has been arrested for a brutal assault of … → Read More
‘Human Rights’ Organizations Bash Israel, While Sports Organizations Defend It
An anti-Israel protest held by Amnesty International members in Seoul, South Korea, Jan. 13, 2009. In recent weeks, Amnesty International, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the United Nations Human Rights Council have all been in the news. All three have been promoting, in one way or another, the isolation of Israel on the international scene. At the end of last month, Amnesty… → Read More
Freshman Representative with Anti-Israel Views Appointed to Influential Foreign Affairs Cmte
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) was selected to serve on the influential House Foreign Affairs Committee despite her history of anti-Israel rhetoric. → Read More
The Latest Proof That the Iran Nuclear Deal Has Failed to Work
An aerial map from 2004 showing Iran’s clandestine nuclear activities at the Parchin military complex near Tehran. Image: isis-online.org In explaining how the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran would prevent the Islamic dictatorship from developing nuclear weapons, the Obama White House claimed on its website that Iran agreed to allow International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors “to access and… → Read More
ACLU Falsely Claims That Anti-Boycott Legislation Limits Free Speech
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) — at one time the nation’s premiere civil rights organization — has falsely characterized... → Read More
How International Institutions Are Failing to Protect Israel
International institutions devoted to promoting peace are admirable, but two of them have failed to live up to their founding principles and protect Israel. → Read More
Airbnb Facing More Backlash over "Discriminatory" Israel Boycott
Airbnb, the international online rental marketplace, is facing further backlash for its decision last week to no longer list rentals of Jewish-owned properties in the West Bank, as the city of Beverly Hills unanimously passed a resolution calling the practice “discriminatory,” the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Sunday. Describing Airbnb’s new policy “antithetical to the values … → Read More
Syria’s Sarin, Iran’s Nukes, and the Limits of Diplomacy
Two recent reports highlighted the problem of using diplomacy alone to disarm rogue states. On October 15, the BBC published an in-depth investigation that showed “for the first time the extent to which chemical weapons have been crucial to his war-winning strategy.” According to the report, the BBC determined that “there is enough evidence to be confident that at least 106 chemical attacks have… → Read More
Ten of Ambassador Nikki Haley’s Finest Moments
Ambassador Nikki Haley, who announced Tuesday that she would be leaving her post as United States Ambassador to the United Nations at the end of the year, made her mark by vigorously defending Israel in the often-hostile world body. But Haley didn’t just defend the Jewish state, she also pointed out the dangers to the Middle East and the world presented by Iran and called tyrants to account.… → Read More
Perpetuating Palestinian Misery
The decisions by President Donald Trump to have the United States stop funding United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which aids those defined as Palestinian refugees, as well as cut funding to the Palestinian Authority (PA) has prompted criticism and predictions of disaster. A recent Washington Post editorial asserted that UNRWA’s aid cut-off risked “worsening an already terrible… → Read More
Imagine There’s No Terror. It’s Easy if You Try.
In explaining why France remained unconvinced that Iran continues to present a terror threat to Europe, The Wall Street Journal reported last week that a French security official said, “We can imagine an ultranationalist faction carrying out an operation to raise tensions.” The Journal report explained that given recent Iranian-directed terror attacks and attempts on European soil — most… → Read More
Israel Helps the West with Security Needs; When Will the West Let Israel Defend Itself?
When the United States, Canada, and the European Union wanted someone to rescue members of the Syrian Civil Defense organization,... → Read More
The New Israel-Syria Normal
Last week, former United States State Department official and Middle East peace negotiator Aaron David Miller tweeted, “Given what’s happening in Syria, I often wonder (and worry) what would have happened had we succeeded in the 1990s in our efforts to broker an Israeli -Syrian agreement on Golan.” Miller was linking to an October 2015 article he had written speculating how much more complicated… → Read More
Jalali in Wonderland
Earlier this week, Gen. Gholam Reza Jalali’s accused Israel of contributing to or causing Iran’s drought by stealing its clouds and snow. “Over the past four years, the highlands from Afghanistan to the Mediterranean have been studied. The findings are that areas above 2,200 meters were full of snow but our highlands have remained dry,” Jalali, the head of Iran’s Civil Defense Organization,… → Read More
Charles Krauthammer, Israel, and Jewish History
Charles Krauthammer, the Washington Post the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who died last week at 68, was remembered for his kindness and generosity, as well as for the sophisticated analyses he brought to the political issues of the day. For me, Krauthammer was influential in the development of my political views. His columns were also frequently a relief, as he was one of the most articulate… → Read More
When Does Pro-Palestinian End
In a 2013 news item on Iran’s annual Quds Day march, the Associated Press reported that newly elected President Hassan Rouhani said at the event that Israel was an “old wound” that needed to be removed. The AP later provided some context for those remarks, “Rouhani spoke at an annual pro-Palestinian rally marking ‘Al-Quds Day’ — the Arabic word for Jerusalem — and although his remarks appear… → Read More
Despite Confirmation of Netanyahu’s Fears, Europe Refuses to Concede Threat of Nuclear Iran
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to convince his European counterparts about the danger of the nuclear deal this past week, they were not receptive to his arguments. Yet the prime minister’s assessment of the deal three years ago, has been borne out by recent developments. Perhaps the leaders of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom need to reconsider their positions. In… → Read More
A Week of Infamy at the United Nations
When Syria ascended to the role of presidency of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament for one month on Monday, Robert Wood, the United States ambassador to the conference, called it “one of the darkest days in the history of the Conference on Disarmament.” The week at the U.N. did not get better. Syria assumed the role of presidency of the conference, despite committing the war crime of… → Read More
The Dark Side of Roger Waters: A Review of Wish You Weren’t Here
Somewhere in the middle of the movie Wish you Weren’t Here, Ian Halperin’s devastating critique of Roger Waters and the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, former Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz noted that Waters not only targets Israel, but also uses blatantly anti-Semitic imagery, and concludes that Waters is “a good singer and a horrible bigot.” This is one of… → Read More
Unexpected Candor from Hamas’s Leaders Exposes the Threat Behind the Riots
On April 7, The New York Times called the Hamas-led weekly riots at Israel’s border fence a “a tentative experiment with nonviolent protest.” A week later, the Times noted the incongruity of Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas, a terrorist group known for using “suicide bombs, rockets and attack tunnels” to attack Israel, standing “before portraits of the giants of nonviolent resistance —… → Read More