A collection of 121 posts
The pro-Hamas demonstrations are driven by the identification of Israel with “colonialism” and the idea that the Palestinians are anti-colonialists. This approach is based on ignorance.
For more than a generation, defence policy and much else has been increasingly determined by the dictates of Israel’s religious settler lobby and its Messianic visions.
There is a new contender for the most effective weapon in the propaganda wars: photorealistic, generative AI art.
The libel that Israel is engaged in genocide attempts to do the unthinkable—to link the Jewish state with Nazi Germany. This cynical calculus is as wrong as it is obscene.
In Palestine, they’d be killed.
The enemies of the Jews are the enemies of Enlightenment.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to influential Israeli historian Benny Morris about Hamas’ acts of mass murder, the Israeli response, and the future of Gaza.
Sometimes, we simply have to stop the bad guys—even at the cost of civilian casualties.
Make no mistake: dead Israelis are good for Hamas, but dead Palestinians are even better.
No one should suffer professional or academic repercussions simply because they voice support for Palestinian rights and welfare.
No movement that excuses the deliberate slaughter of innocent civilians—even under guise of anti-colonial ‘resistance’—can survive as a mainstream political creed.
The inflammatory Al-Ahli hospital hoax shows that much of the Western media remains compulsively addicted to dangerous and self-defeating war journalism.
A new book examines Israel’s mounting campaign to check Iran.
Today's political and military leaders never imagined that the Hamas was capable of launching a successful invasion of Israel's borderlands.
It is rarely the case that all of the blame for a conflict belongs on one side. But that does not mean blame should be equally divided.