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Nov 14, 2024, 9:07 PM

Trump’s Election Saved Jews, But He’s No Zionist

For partisans, Donald Trump is either the devil or the Messiah. We will only know at the end of four years. We do know the Jewish community’s immediate well-being was spared by his victory. Israel’s fate is not so...

Oct 23, 2024, 3:53 AM

Who Supports a Two-State Solution? You’d Be Surprised

Vice President Kamala Harris has echoed President Joe Biden in calling for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As Harris told Dana Bash in her CNN interview: “I remain committed since I’ve been on October 8 to what...

Oct 14, 2024, 4:32 PM

Myths and facts about Trump’s Middle East policy

Former US president Donald Trump (left) hosts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago resort, Florida, July 26, 2024. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

For single-issue voters for whom Israel is the most paramount, the choice in November hinges on which candidate is truly best for the Jewish state. Voters leaning toward Donald Trump tout him as the most pro-Israel president in history....

Jul 29, 2024, 11:47 PM

Who said Trump is Hitler? His Vice President

Republicans and many Jews express outrage whenever anyone suggests that former president Donald Trump could in any way be compared to Hitler, yet no one was upset that the man he chose to run as his vice president did...

May 15, 2024, 4:41 PM

Kurtzer’s advice on Columbia should be ignored

It mystifies me why people who fail at their jobs continue to be given platforms to give advice. Daniel Kurtzer is a former State Department Arabist who failed spectacularly, along with his colleagues, in achieving their vision for Middle...

Feb 4, 2024, 11:43 PM

Biden Executive Order Should Sanction Palestinians

President Biden should be thanked for his executive order to sanction four settlers because, in doing so, he essentially undercut its premise, that there are “particular high levels of extremist settler violence.” He has recognized that only .001% of...

Oct 25, 2023, 4:13 AM

Partisans Smear Biden As He Supports Israel

Anyone who has read my work (see, for example, March 1, March 29, June 28) knows I have no hesitation about criticizing President Joe Biden when warranted. Still, there is a vast difference between policy disagreements and character assassination....

Oct 18, 2023, 7:51 PM

Blinken Needs A History Lesson Before Lecturing Israel

Do not listen to the partisan right-wing hacks smearing President Joe Biden by accusing him of having some responsibility for the Hamas attack on Israel. President Biden has been the most supportive president in history during wartime. As he...

Oct 12, 2023, 11:01 PM

Show the Atrocities and Try the Criminals

General Dwight Eisenhower inspects charred remains of prisoners at Ohrdruf concentration camp. (Wikipedia)

On April 19, 1945, General Eisenhower sent this Eyes Only cable to General Marshall, asking for permission to take members of the press and Congress to a concentration camp. He wrote: We continue to discover German concentration camps for political...

Sep 26, 2023, 1:29 AM

What Oslo Critics Omit

The anniversary of the signing of the Oslo Accords prompted a flurry of commentary that fell into two general categories. The first were the participants and optimists who lament what could have been, admit Oslo was a failure, but...

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About Me

Dr Mitchell Bard is the Executive Director of the nonprofit American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE) and a foreign policy analyst who lectures frequently on U.S.-Middle East policy. Dr. Bard is the director of the Jewish Virtual Library, the world's most comprehensive online encyclopedia of Jewish history and culture. He is also the author/editor of 24 books, including The Arab Lobby, Death to the Infidels: Radical Islam’s War Against the Jews and the novel After Anatevka: Tevye in Palestine.