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Oct 11, 2024, 5:57 AM

A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed

Not long after the Hamas massacres on Oct. 7, 2023, I heard from a college classmate expressing his concern about the brutal destruction of lives in Israeli communities on that day. I thanked him and went on to tell him...

Oct 22, 2021, 1:06 AM

What Powell said about antisemitism

One of the 21st century’s first important speeches on antisemitism by a world leader was given by then secretary of state Colin Powell, in April 2004. The occasion was the second dedicated conference on antisemitism, organized in Berlin, by the...

Jun 1, 2021, 5:59 PM

Antisemitism, yesterday and today

As far back as I can remember, my mother would always make us aware of antisemitism. Not necessarily from a historic perspective; her admonitions were about what she had seen and experienced in her life. One of the first...

Apr 14, 2021, 3:38 PM

Heed the neon warning sign on Iran’s intentions

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the State Department in Washington, April 5, 2021. (Al Drago/Pool via AP)

In his dealings with Iran, US Sec. of State Blinken should heed his own words about America's historic failure to rescue the Jews from calamity

Dec 3, 2020, 10:55 PM

When the Letters Stopped

When I was a youngster, and the subject came around to the Holocaust, my mother told me about receiving letters from her relatives in Lithuania, beseeching the family in America to bring them to the US, as the Nazis...

Sep 17, 2020, 5:07 PM

Would San Francisco State University invite the 9/11 hijackers to speak?

How will giving a stage to Leila Khaled, an unrepentant terrorist, enable students to broaden their intellectual horizons?

Aug 19, 2020, 10:24 PM

Europe: Out of Step, Again

Two events last week have illustrated, once again, how much Europe’s tin ear on Iran, and on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to function, despite a rapidly changing geopolitical environment in the region. The United Nations Security Council, in a 2-2...

Mar 4, 2020, 8:12 AM

From Europe: Myopia on Israel

The best word to describe it would be chutzpah. In a letter to British daily newspaper The Guardian, 50 former European foreign ministers and government leaders castigated the Trump administration’s long-awaited peace plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The letter asserts...

Mar 10, 2019, 10:37 PM

The dual-loyalty canard

Illustrative. Patriotic Americans. (iStock)

After 350 years, Jews know the truth: the US is the better for its many ethnic Americans with cultural and bilateral ties to their ancestral homes

May 8, 2018, 9:36 PM

UN Security Council gives Abbas a pass

If you write Jews out of their own history in the Middle East, then what kind of partner for peace can you be?

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About Me

Daniel S. Mariaschin served for 27 years as CEO of B’nai B’rith International. He is now Honorary CEO and Senior Advisor. The views expressed here are his own.