Opinion

My Word: Greta’s ship and the way the wind blows

Being “kidnapped”, as Thunberg claimed she was, is not being offered a drink and a sandwich before being towed to a safe harbor on the way home.

 GRETA THUNBERG talks to journalists as she arrives at Arlanda airport outside Stockholm, Sweden, on Tuesday, after being deported from Israel.

Editor's Notes: What’s left? Is there still a left wing in Israel?

 Left wing activists protest against the war and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, not far from the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, May 23, 2025.

Antisemitism facing American Jews is dangerous for everyone - editorial

 An Israeli flag is placed near police tape, after an attack that injured multiple people, in Boulder, Colorado, US June 1, 2025.

Your Investments: Consistency is the key for securing a financial future - opinion

 NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS head coach Bill Belichick attends a press conference to announce he will leave the team after 24 seasons and six Super Bowl wins, in 2024.

Iran's critical choice: Capitulate, negotiate with the US, or start Middle East - opinion

Iran's current foreign policy options mirror Japan's options in World War Two.

 An Iranian man walks past a wall of the former U.S. Embassy, with an anti-America mural on it, in Tehran, Iran August 16, 2022.

An existential threat: New York cannot have a mayor who fans the flames of antisemitism - opinion

For mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani to say Israel does not have a right to exist as a Jewish state, he is aligning himself with the world's most notorious antisemites.

NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani against backdrop of pro-Palestinian protest in New York. (illustration)

The phrase ‘Free Palestine’ is freeing no one, but it is killing some of us - opinion

Two men have been arrested for terror attacks while invoking "Free Palestine." For them the phrase is a rallying cry sanctioning violence.

 PRO-PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATORS hold a rally at Columbia University in New York City on the first anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack, last month.

Global sanctions against Israel ministers show dangerous hypocrisy - editorial

As US Secretary of State Marco Rubio put it, the sanctions “do nothing to promote a ceasefire in Gaza, bring the hostages home, or end the war.”

(L-R) Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir

The Knesset attack on reform Judaism weakens us all - opinion

The Reform Movement just secured first place in World Zionist Congress elections, yet Israeli politicians are calling them 'not real Jews.'

 REFORM AND Conservative rabbis and Women of the Wall members hold Torah scrolls at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City, 2016. ‘We will continue to fight for a just, inclusive Israel that embraces all streams of Judaism,’ the writer promises.

A year after my murdered daughter Shani’s burial, I was attacked for honoring her memory - opinon

Let the world see what Hamas did to my child. Let the world see what Islamist terrorists do to Jews.

 SHANI LOUK. ‘I have tried to carry her memory as a torch of light through the unbearable darkness,’ her father, the writer, says.

Jewish children shouldn't need armed guards to go to school - opinion

With 2.2 billion people worldwide holding antisemitic beliefs, violent attacks on Jews from Paris to Boulder represent a global crisis that demands collective action.

 BOULDER THEATER is seen beyond a taped police barrier, near the scene of an attack that injured 12 people at an event raising awareness for the Israeli hostages still in Gaza captivity.

Time to end America's toxic relationship with Qatar - opinion

Qatar supports Hamas, houses Taliban leaders, and funds antisemitism on American campuses, so why is it still America's 'indispensable' Middle East partner?

 PALESTINE VS KUWAIT at the soccer World Cup qualifiers at Jassim bin Hamad Stadium, Doha, Qatar, last year. Qatar supports Salafists, many with American blood on their hands, including the Taliban, Hamas, al-Qaeda, and ISIS, the writer says.

An open letter to Israelis living abroad - opinion

After over 600 days of war, where are the diaspora volunteers who rushed home in past conflicts? This time, the silence from abroad is deafening.

PEOPLE WEAR masks satirizing President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and striped clothes suggesting jail and hinting at Holocaust-era concentration camps, in a protest against Israel, in Madrid last month. The writer calls on Israeli expats to ‘Come help, come do, come give.’

Bon Voyage, Greta: A flotilla of performative moral grandstanding - opinion

Performance activism is described as “activism done to increase one’s social capital rather than the devotion to one’s cause.” 

 GRETA THUNBERG talks to journalists upon arrival at Arlanda Airport, Sweden. She is unashamed to wear a keffiyeh, fully identifying with those holding Israeli hostages in underground death tunnels for over 600 days, the writer concludes.