The Hamas Winter is Coming
December 28, 2023
Honest people understand that the plight of the Palestinians is merely a false flag in making antisemitism fashionable.
Thane Rosenbaum
Thane Rosenbaum is a novelist, essayist, law professor and Distinguished University Professor at Touro University, where he directs the Forum on Life, Culture & Society. He has written numerous works of fiction and nonfiction and hundreds of essays in major national and global publications. He is the legal analyst for CBS News Radio and appears regularly on cable TV news programs. His most recent book is entitled, “Beyond Proportionality: Israel's Just War in Gaza."
In Israel’s Time of Need, Jewish Hollywood Has Failed the Audition
December 17, 2023
The list of celebrity Jews who have said nothing is truly shocking. Fearless in front of the camera, ferocious at the negotiating table, but cowering when it comes to moral courage.
The Folly of Ceasefire
December 3, 2023
Soon after Israel began its counteroffensive, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire. It declined to make any statement condemning Hamas.
Art and Belligerency Off-Broadway
November 13, 2023
Desperate times call for degenerate measures. For American Jews, this would be a good time to call upon Phillip Roth.
Kristallnacht, Act II
November 7, 2023
Given the grotesque carnage in southern Israel on October 7, global Jewry is today mindful of a brokenness far worse than glass—the confidence of their place in the world, which far too many had believed was secured.
Speech That Endangers Jewish Lives is Sweeping America
October 30, 2023
Provocative words like “genocide” and “globalize the intifada” from pro-Hamas sympathizers is nothing less than the sanctioning of violence toward Jews.
Gaza—Where the Moral Math of Revenge Has No Equal
October 22, 2023
No other nation, most especially the United States, has ever been held to such an exacting standard of precision while responding in self-defense.
The Naked, the Dead, and the Ivy League
October 16, 2023
Students and faculty offered their full-throated applause to those who gleefully slit the throats of Jewish infants. This on college campuses purportedly obsessed with microaggressions and “safe spaces” granted to defenseless groups.
Barbarians Through the Gate
October 8, 2023
The murderous events of this past weekend surely now constitutes the fifth military conflict. If Israel does what it must, and what no other nation would hesitate in doing, perhaps this war will be the last.
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