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May 7, 2024, 7:33 AM

Jews for Palestine: Our ‘Wicked Sons’

On the heels of another Passover holiday, one amidst the pall of a post-October 7th world, the Jewish community is struggling to understand what is happening in the streets of an America we love so much. Each week we...

Jan 29, 2024, 3:57 PM

Walk to remember the one hundred and thirty-two

I walk along the streets of my Northwestern D.C. neighborhood, and it does not feel like home anymore. Neighborhoods home to a large Jewish community and known for their leafier streets abutting Rock Creek and the scenic Soapstone Valley...

Dec 6, 2023, 6:24 PM

A Letter to a University President

The pro-Palestinian protests roiling campuses of higher learning nationwide have forced university leadership to reckon with a growing scourge of antisemitism directed against Jewish and Israeli students and faculty. This trend has not spared my alma mater, Rutgers University....

Oct 17, 2023, 5:31 AM

Hamas Exposes the Rot of the American Progressive Left

On the heels of the October 7th, 2023 massacre perpetrated by Palestinian terrorist group Hamas that murdered over 1,300 Israelis and kidnapped 200, shrill cries from an ever more insidious pro-Palestinian movement have dominated university campuses nationwide sympathizing not...

Jun 14, 2021, 11:38 PM

Ilhan Omar shifts tactics, but stays on course

Representative Ilhan Omar's latest comments intentionally lumping Israel and the United States with terrorist groups not only further demonstrate her reprehensibility, but more so a surprising acknowledgement that Hamas is indeed a malevolent force. By placing Israel on par...

Jun 8, 2021, 12:25 PM

Europe’s Left-Wing Anti-Semitism Has Come to America

The 2018 and 2019 synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh and San Diego were widely covered by American media. Not only because they resulted in tragic loss of life, but they also fit a narrative that loan wolf white supremacists were...

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About Me

Ryan Gardiner, a Navy Veteran and 2016 Presidential Management Fellow, previously served as Managing Editor for Harvard Kennedy School's Journal for Middle-Eastern Politics and Policy in 2016, and an Assistant Managing Editor for Young Professionals in Foreign Policy in 2020. His previous works can be found in the National Interest and in Small Wars Journal.