Qanta A. Ahmed, at The Blogs

Sep 2, 2024, 4:02 PM

Islamism’s assault on Israel is a crime against all of humanity

Relatives and friends attend the funeral of Alexander Lobanov, whose body was among six recovered from the Gaza Strip after they were murdered by their Hamas captors, at the Ashkelon cemetery in southern Israel on September 1, 2024. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

The vile murder of 6 Israeli hostages tells us who Hamas is – the heroic rescue of Bedouin captive Farhan al-Qadi tells us who Israel is

Jun 17, 2024, 4:06 PM

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The devastating reframing of Israel’s just war against Hamas

The destruction caused by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, at Kibbutz Kissufim, November 20, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Suggesting symmetry between Israel and Hamas fundamentally ruptures the sense that the lives of Jews and all Israelis matter

Oct 12, 2023, 4:53 PM

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Israel’s jihad remains my jihad, the IDF my soul soldiers

IDF security forces patrol in the southern city of Sderot, October 11, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90

For Hamas, there is only the killing, the maiming, the violations, the debasing. It was there all along, but we didn’t want to see it.

Sep 10, 2019, 3:23 PM

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Sarsour as Sanders surrogate: Intersectionality meets Islamist anti-Semitism

Linda Sarsour listens as Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks in a roundtable discussion at the First Unitarian Congregational Society, Saturday, April 16, 2016, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Sarsour ticks all the intersectional boxes: She's Muslim, hijab-wearing, a woman of color, and a daughter of immigrants. So am I.

Jun 14, 2018, 12:18 PM

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The ambassador’s iftar: Muslims celebrate Ramadan with the State of Israel

Illustrative: Jews and Arabs sharing an Iftar (breakfast) together during the month of Ramadan, in the town of Tayibe, June 9, 2016. (Dov Lieber/Times of Israel)

I broke my Ramadan fast at a multi-faith, multinational, multicultural affair, much like my experiences in Israel

Jan 26, 2018, 7:41 AM

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Jerusalem belongs to the Jews: An Islamic truth

In denying Jewish ties to the land of Israel, Islamists defy the Quran and cultivate a genocidal anti-Semitism

Sep 21, 2015, 1:02 PM

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At al-Aqsa, a sentinel moment for Islam

Barring Jews from praying at their holiest site perverts Islam and profanes the God it shares with Judaism

Jun 26, 2014, 11:00 PM

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An underground fortress of healing

Doctors at the Haifa medical center (illustrative photo credit: Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash90)

A doctor compares Rambam Medical Center's subterranean medical center with the 'above-ground opulence' of hospitals in the Arab world

May 5, 2014, 8:51 PM

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Peace goes by the name Hadassah

A dove nestles among stones at Jerusalem's Western Wall (Photo: Qanta Ahmed)

After practicing in Saudi Arabia, the sense of community at Israel's flagship hospital feels extraordinary

Nov 13, 2013, 5:27 PM

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The tree house that Leslie Sacks built

Leslie Sacks first saw Anselm Kiefer's Jungfrau at an exhibit in Tel Aviv Art. For the remaining time Sacks had to live, the painting was his sanctuary. (photo: Qanta Ahmed)

Remembering a Jewish art lover who championed the rights of Muslim women

About Me

Qanta Ahmed, MD, is a senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, a life member, Council on Foreign Relations and an Honorary Fellow at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. She is the author of 'In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom'