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Ilanna Sharon Mandel

Jun 14, 2025, 12:10 AM

Mark Carney Endangers Canadian Jews

Journalist Brian Lilley wrote back in March of this year labelling Canada’s new PM Mark Carney as a man who consistently lies even when he doesn’t need to. “It’s part of an ongoing pattern with Carney, lying about small...

Steven Berkowitz

May 9, 2025, 12:53 PM

India, Israel, and what the world needs to remember about Daniel Pearl

There are two ways to look at what’s happening between India and Pakistan. The most recent manifestation of a long-standing conflict over Kashmir, or India responding as any sovereign nation would after its people were attacked by terrorists (yes,...

Jonathan Shavit

May 8, 2025, 5:58 AM

Chora, Hawija, and the al-Ahli hospital blast: a case of Dutch media bias

Does the name Chora mean anything to you? How about Hawija? Unless you are Dutch, an Afghan or an Iraqi – and that might not matter much more either – these names will not ring any bells. But if...

Gina Friedlander

Mar 24, 2025, 6:14 AM

The Post 9/11 Generation

The Post 9/11 Generation You are flying out of JFK and have to wait in a long line to go through security. There are big stanchions in front of all federal buildings. There are surveillance cameras everywhere. There is a...

Mar 13, 2025, 9:49 AM

Silence on Syria Genocide: Israel Fights for All

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As we witness the horrifying events unfolding in Syria, we are faced with a reality too dark to ignore. Thousands of innocent lives are being systematically slaughtered by the so-called “peaceful” Islamic regime in power. This is no war....

Feb 22, 2025, 7:40 PM

The Arab World’s Forgotten Jewish Past

Ruins of Sassoun Synagogue in Old Mosul, the Jewish Quarter. ©Omar Mohammed, 2024

A quiet erasure has occurred across the Arab world. Once-thriving Jewish communities—whose histories stretch back millennia—have all but disappeared. Their homes stand empty; their synagogues lie in ruins, and their cemeteries are overgrown. Not only has their presence faded,...

Feb 11, 2025, 8:21 PM

A Rare Muslim Leader Who Avoided Israel-Bashing

Author Allan Ripp greets the Aga Khan IV at a United Nations event in New York, 1980. Photograph by Christopher Little.

The Aga Khan was tolerant, temperate and civic-minded – an Imam for the West of us

Christian Rudolf Hamann

Jan 5, 2025, 7:52 AM

Donald Trump is already correcting the course of history – Part II

The limited Turkish integration force Although the Turks adopted Islam from the Arabs over 1,000 years ago, the religion’s resistance to reform was a decisive obstacle to their expansion efforts in the Arab world. The Ottoman Empire gradually subjugated these...

Jan 2, 2025, 10:44 PM

Why ISIS’s Message Still Echoes in America

The clock had just struck midnight. Fireworks illuminated the skies as people worldwide embraced the hope of a new year, the promise of a brighter 2025. I, too, tried to share in this fleeting moment of optimism. But history...

Dec 2, 2024, 10:59 AM

World Rues the Day It Lost the Concept of Genocide

It only took four days after the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire for the Middle East to rear its ugly head again. In a lightning raid that surprised almost everybody, Syrian rebels overran much of the country's second largest city, Aleppo, brushing...

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