Paul Schneider, at The Blogs

Nov 12, 2024, 6:27 PM

American Mediators Must Reject the Palestinian Claim to a ‘Right of Return’

For a long time, American efforts to mediate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have suffered from inertia. That includes a perennial refusal to take a decisive position on the so-called Palestinian right of return. The result has been decades of failed...

Sep 30, 2024, 9:51 PM

Are you a Zionist who needs a shrink? Good luck

Are you a stressed-out Zionist? Feeling traumatized? Anxious? Depressed? Are friends and family giving you a hard time about your support for the Jewish state? At work, do you avoid any discussion of Israel? Are you worried about antisemitism?...

Mar 18, 2024, 6:32 PM

Israel Has Important Christian Allies in the Fight Against Hamas

David Parsons is an American attorney, ordained minister and Middle East specialist. He serves as the Vice President and senior spokesman for the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ). He has lived in Israel for the past 27 years. October 7...

Jan 27, 2024, 5:13 PM

It’s Time to Pull the Plug on UNRWA

Earlier this month, UN Watch reported on a Telegram group of 3,000 schoolteachers in Gaza, “replete with posts celebrating the Hamas massacre of October 7th minutes after it began, praising the murderers and rapists as ‘heroes,’ glorifying the ‘education’...

Dec 10, 2023, 7:00 PM

The Useful Idiots of ‘IfNotNow’

On October 7, shortly after that day’s genocidal attack, the young Jewish American anti-Zionists of IfNotNow issued a statement saying, in part: “We cannot and will not say today’s actions by Palestinian militants are unprovoked. Every day under Israel’s...

Nov 2, 2023, 10:55 PM

Even After October 7, Peter Beinart Continues His Twisted Fantasy

Since the October 7 Hamas attack, many on the American left have been trying to avoid simply standing with Israel. The most prominent member of this group is, as always, Peter Beinart. A week after the attack, Beinart took to...

Jun 2, 2023, 7:40 AM

B’nai B’rith report confronts European antisemitism

On August 17, 1987 Rudolf Hess, a convicted Nazi War Criminal, the sole inmate of Berlin’s Spandau Prison, was found dead. He had hanged himself. The following year, mourners held the first annual Rudolph Hess Memorial March in his...

Dec 14, 2022, 10:05 PM

Fighting Woke Antisemitism

These days, Jewish progressives might seem faced with a hard choice: They can be Zionists or true progressives. The woke mob says they can’t be both. Just ask Rashida Tlaib. Recently, she declared that one can’t hold “progressive values”...

Sep 26, 2022, 1:53 AM

Shana Tova, Rashida

You may have heard about Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s recent statement to Americans for Justice in Palestine Action: “It’s become clear that you cannot claim to hold progressive values yet back Israel’s apartheid government. And we will continue to push...

Mar 3, 2022, 7:23 PM

Israel’s existence is not a human rights violation

Amnesty International’s new report, “Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians,” has received a lot of press—and a lot of well-deserved criticism. But there’s one aspect of the controversy that hasn’t gotten enough attention: The report recommends that Israeli authorities “Recognize the...

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Paul Schneider is an attorney, writer and member of the Board of Directors of the American Jewish International Relations Institute (AJIRI), an affiliate of B’nai B’rith International. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland and frequently travels to Israel.

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