Henry Kopel, at The Blogs

Aug 29, 2024, 6:26 PM

No Professor Rosensaft, Kamala Harris is Hardly the ‘Pro-Jewish’ Candidate

It is often said that the Roman destruction of ancient Israel resulted from factionalism and infighting among the Jewish defenders of Jerusalem. That painful legacy casts a long shadow over Jewish history, and it explains why I regret writing...

May 19, 2024, 6:49 PM

How the Keffiyeh Became the 21st Century’s Swastika

Protest in Ontario, Canada, May 2024 (Image with permission of Shutterstock)

Why is the Palestinian movement so incorrigible? Namely, what explains the savagery of Hamas’s October 7 rapes and murders? Why has the Palestinian Authority rejected every offer of a sovereign state alongside Israel? And here in America, why do...

Oct 19, 2023, 7:33 PM

To End Hamas Horrors, De-Nazify Palestinian Culture

Images from Israeli towns overrun by Hamas terrorists are horrifying. Entire families executed in their homes, many bearing the marks of excruciating tortures. Forty babies at a kibbutz massacred, many beheaded. The mutilated body of a dead rape victim paraded...

Aug 23, 2022, 8:07 PM

The Real Lesson of L’Affaire Abbas? Stop Funding and Start De-Nazifying the PA

Fifty years ago at the Munich Olympics in Germany, the terrorist group Black September – a branch of Yasir Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) – stormed the Olympic village, murdered two Israeli Olympians, and took nine more as hostages....

Aug 10, 2022, 7:10 PM

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The cognitive war against Israel reveals humanity’s broken moral compass

Too many Western cultural and educational institutions accept the 'abolish Israel' message, even when they don't admit it. We need a campaign to restore the truth

Jun 18, 2022, 11:48 AM

For American Jews, It’s Long Past Time to Recognize the Threat from the Left

It is a cliché to observe that, outside the Orthodox community, American Jews lean politically left. As one political scientist put it, “American Jews are disproportionately clustered on the liberal/Democratic side of the political spectrum.” Many factors explain this pattern....

Mar 29, 2022, 12:02 AM

The ‘Human Rights’ Community’s War on Israel: A Catastrophic Moral Failure

Consider the story of a small ethnic minority exiled from its homeland of a thousand years by an imperial conqueror – with hundreds of thousands killed and most of the rest sold into slavery. For the next two millennia,...

Mar 10, 2022, 5:13 PM

1619, 1948, and the Woke Left’s War on Reality

Origin stories often make the most captivating films and plays – like the account of childhood abuse that drove “The Joker” down the path of evil, or the orphan’s life of loss and poverty that fueled Alexander Hamilton’s boundless...

Feb 26, 2022, 8:39 AM

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From Ukraine to Iran: Non-proliferation and ‘Never Again!’ at risk

Left: Then-US President-elect Joe Biden on January 14, 2021, in Wilmington, Delaware (AP Photo/Matt Slocum); Right: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, December 9, 2020. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

The US incompetence that left the Ukrainians with no nuclear option for their defense may also let Iran carry out its repeated threat to nuke Israel to smithereens

About Me

Henry Kopel is a former U.S. federal prosecutor and the author of the book “War on Hate: How to Stop Genocide, Fight Terrorism, and Defend Freedom.” Kopel is a graduate of Brandeis University, Oxford University, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and is an annual guest lecturer on prosecuting hate crimes at the University of Connecticut Law School. He serves on the global advisory board for the Abraham Global Peace Initiative.