David Nabhan, at The Blogs

May 16, 2026, 11:16 PM

NY Times Insults Jewish-Americans with Blood Libel

New York Jews have come to a crossroads. It’s one they’ve avoided for decades, but they’ve no other choice now, not after the New York Times days ago ("The Horror of Sexual Assault in Israeli Prisons," May 11, 2026)...

Feb 23, 2026, 5:29 AM

Feds Charge US Colleges: Pervasive Anti-Semitism

Mobs of keffiyeh-wearing undergraduates swarming and bullying Jewish students on US college campuses have given the world an astounding glimpse into the shocking state of America’s elite universities. The ugly and depressing image is one of world-class educational institutions...

Dec 16, 2025, 9:03 AM

The Greening of the Negev—and Mojave?–Deserts

Egypt’s Qattara Project is a mega-construction plan to cut a waterway from the Mediterranean coast inland to fill the Qattara Depression. The newly created body of water, constantly evaporating in the brutal environs of Egypt’s northern desert, would provide...

Nov 16, 2025, 12:21 AM

What Ireland Better Learn from Israel—and Quickly

Few countries on Earth are under siege like Israel and Ireland, the former having fought off coalition after coalition of enemies attacking relentlessly for the last three-quarters of a century, with the latter now wilting under a different yet...

Jul 30, 2025, 10:02 PM

Not Mossad Nor Pam Bondi Created Epstein—We Did

Israel-haters have blamed the Jewish state for everything from 9/11 to the creation of remote-controlled sharks used to attack Egyptian swimmers. Their latest piece of absurd finger-pointing concerns how the Mossad utilized Jeffrey Epstein for their nefarious purposes. Yet aside...

Jun 26, 2025, 7:31 PM

The Rape of Nanking’s Shadow Falls Across Israel

During World War II when Japanese forces occupied Nanking, Lieutenants Toshiaki Mukai and Tsuyoshi Noda became celebrities for their contest to determine how many Chinese could be beheaded within a single minute using their samurai swords. The sports pages in...

Mar 12, 2025, 5:18 AM

Media Disdain for Syrian Christians: Predictable

Just days ago hundreds of Alawite, Christian and Druze civilians—men, women and children—were killed by the Syrian forces which recently toppled the Assad regime and took control of the country. Ostensibly the conflict isn’t over quite yet, at least...

Mar 8, 2025, 8:24 PM

Price for Columbia’s Anti-Semitism: $400 Million

President Trump yesterday cut $400 million in federal funding to Columbia University in New York after its hapless administration sat and watched as pro-Hamas mobs have taken over buildings on the campus, menaced Jewish students, and disseminated Hamas propaganda....

Nov 25, 2024, 10:14 PM

Jewish-Americans Vote from the River to the Sea

A few years ago I spoke on nationwide US talk radio—and on Israeli airwaves as well—treating a topic that strangely rarely now captures the world’s attention: the Rwandan genocide. I’d queried the planet’s experts in modern African history and...

Sep 1, 2024, 4:57 AM

History’s Fatal Lure: Conquer and Hold Israel

Natufians were the first real society to hold sway in what would become modern Israel. Their culture in the Levant, 15,000 to 11,500 years ago, predates even the Neolithic agricultural revolution, a unique and unusual instance of a sedentary,...

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David Nabhan is a science and science fiction writer. He is the author of "Earthquake Prediction: Dawn of the New Seismology" (2017) and three other books on seismic forecasting.

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