Gerald M. Steinberg

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Dec 10, 2024, 5:17 PM

Human Rights Day is now Jew-Hatred Day

In the United Nations and many western capitals, December 10 is celebrated as “Human Rights Day.” In reality, it should be repackaged as Antisemitism Day, reflecting the systematic weaponization of the original values and principles in order to demonize...

Apr 22, 2024, 12:39 AM

On Passover, God is a Political Realist

Passover Hagadah collection, Rothschild Hagadah, ~1470, Northern Italy, National Library of Israel, public domain
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Universalist messages miss the mark: The seder is a time to dwell on humanity's inherent brutality Note: I published this in the Times of Israel eight years ago, in April 2016. It is even more relevant today. The Passover seder is...

Mar 24, 2024, 4:09 PM

Celebrating Life over Death: Purim 1940 and 2024

Henry Steinberg and HAIFA group_ Gwrych Castle_Purim 1940

In 1940, my father celebrated Purim in a cold dilapidated castle on the north coast of Wales. A few months earlier, he and the other 200 or so Jewish teenagers and a small group of counselors living temporarily at...

Nov 9, 2023, 10:33 AM

From Kristallnacht to the October 7 Hamas Massacre

Anne and Henry Steinberg

For my parents, a strong Israel as the home of the Jewish people was the necessary answer to the lessons of Kristallnacht. The incomprehensible brutality of the October 7 Hamas massacre resulted in the slaughter of some 1,400 Israelis and...

Feb 3, 2023, 9:09 AM

We need a way out of the judicial clash, not more angry rhetoric

The open letter by Gordis, Friedman and Klein Halevi is misleading and dangerously over the top

May 30, 2022, 12:02 AM

German ideologues and the war over antisemitism

“Since German leadership in the attack on the IHRA working definition of antisemitism is recognized as morally and politically awkward (an understatement), it is presented as coming from Jews and Israelis, via the Van Leer Institute.” Jerusalem's Van Leer Institute...

Mar 25, 2021, 10:21 PM

Last Year (2003) We Were Slaves. This Year We Are Free

Original written in 2003 (lightly edited for 2021) According to Jewish tradition, the story of Passover is reenacted every year, as if each person was leaving Egypt and embarking on the dramatic march from slavery to freedom. The narrative begins...

Sep 27, 2020, 11:33 AM

Confessions for Yom Kippur 5781 – Covid-19 version

For the sin of acting as if #Covid_19 is not a danger to us because we are young, healthy, and entitled to enjoy our lives, as we become carriers and infect vulnerable people; For the sin of embracing and repeating...

Sep 7, 2020, 2:52 PM

Palestinian Propaganda in Space

Hype about a small administrative change to a 1996 US federal regulation illustrates the ways in which the Palestinian propaganda (and disinformation) machine works. This public relations campaign, which turned prudent security measures into nefarious censorship cabals, was enabled...

May 22, 2020, 1:12 PM

Jerusalem: 1948, 1967, 2020

Jews fleeing Jerusalem's Old CIty after the 1929 Arab Pogroms (courtesy: Library of Congress)

The bad old days of Jordanian control, when Jews were denied access to their holy sites, are proof that 'shared sovereignty' is a delusion

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About Me

Gerald Steinberg is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Bar Ilan University and president of NGO Monitor. His latest book is "Menachem Begin and the Israel-Egypt Peace Process: Between Ideology and Political Realism", (Indiana University Press)

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