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Allan Ripp

Nov 27, 2024, 9:20 PM

Antisemites Got You Down? Try These Classic Hollywood Moments.

Actor Malcolm McDowell on the set of "Clockwork Orange". (Photo by Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

Scenes from Manhattan, Spartacus, A Clockwork Orange and To Kill a Mockingbird play out in my head for ways to confront hate. My wife and I recently visited the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum, located a dreidel’s toss from the outdoor...

Sep 16, 2024, 11:20 PM

Hamas and the Real Monsters, Inc.

TOPSHOT - --PHOTO TAKEN DURING A CONTROLLED TOUR AND SUBSEQUENTLY EDITED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE ISRAELI MILITARY--
Israeli soldiers inspect the entrance to a reported tunnel, where the Israeli Army said Palestinian militants killed six hostages, in Rafah in the Gaza Strip on September 13, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Palestinian militant groups. (Photo by Sharon ARONOWICZ / AFP) (Photo by SHARON ARONOWICZ/AFP via Getty Images)

The terror group’s underground Monstropolis – some of it hidden directly beneath children’s bedrooms – remains a hostage scream factory. Cozying up with my grandchildren on the couch recently, I rewatched – for the umpteenth time – the film Monsters,...

Aug 23, 2024, 3:15 PM

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Should I have lied to the antisemite who attacked me?

THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE - Airdate: December 26, 1964. (Photo by ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)
JACKIE MASON

He didn't know I was Jewish – but even under threat I couldn't pretend not to be

Apr 17, 2024, 1:32 AM

Hamas Family Values

Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, speaking to journalists after a meeting with Iran's foreign minister in Tehran in late March. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

Its political leader’s blasé response to losing three sons and four grandchildren says much about the group’s tolerance for death. Surely one of the most unsettling images from Israel’s war with Hamas was captured earlier this month in a brief...

Dec 12, 2023, 7:01 AM

University Heads Blew Their Congressional Playbook

Liz Magill, president of the University of Pennsylvania, during a House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023. Lawmakers on the education committee will grill the leaders of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about their responses to protests that erupted after the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. Photographer: Haiyun Jiang/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Like many who watched the proceedings live or in countless viral videos afterwards, I was riveted by the evasions of three elite university leaders trying hard not to answer the direct question posed to them in a December 5...

Oct 27, 2023, 6:15 AM

Hamas’s Humanitarian Hoax

Claiming to free hostages on “compelling humanitarian” grounds, the militant group exposes its cynical disregard for human life By Allan Ripp When Hamas agreed to release two elderly Israeli women on October 23, the group’s military wing said it was doing...

Oct 18, 2023, 7:20 PM

I Have My Mom to Thank for Loving Israel

Author Allan Ripp
Photo by Sarah Sprung Ripp

My mom's ardent Zionism turned me off as a kid, until I saw her as a true pioneer woman for the Jewish state

About Me

Allan Ripp runs a press relations firm in New York. A former journalist, his personal commentary has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, the Atlantic, Washington Post, Time.com, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, CNN, USA Today, Tablet, Chicago Tribune, the Forward and other outlets. He can be reached at arippnyc@aol.com.