This article is an adaptation of a Hebrew article which appeared in Israel Hayom. Missile launched during Iranian military exercise (Reuters) Subscribe While adamantly opposing Israel’s incursion into Rafah, withholding the supply of both vital munitions and intelligence to the IDF, the United States is also offering incentives. If Israel refrains from the Rafah operation, the…

This Memorial Day, as in years past, I attended the official ceremony at the military cemetery in Ashdod. My presence there was both semi-official and personal. Subscribe Hadas Malka, Jan 16, 1994-Jun 16, 2017 (Courtesy) I proudly serve as president of the Hadas Malka Foundation that assists the needy and bereaved families of the Israel Border Police.…

This Holocaust Remembrance Day, commentated in the shadow of the largest single massacre of Jews since World War II, is especially unbearable. We must once again question the ability of words to convey the unspeakable and of the willingness of people to listen. A version of this article originally appeared in The Atlantic. The Many Holocausts…

Though in radically different ways, both Hamas and the United States are using Gaza’s civilians as human shields. There is nothing new about this phenomenon. Hamas, which knows that dead civilians are the best means of increasing international pressure on Israel to accept a ceasefire, has always welcomed civilian deaths. The U.S., by contrast, has…

The anti-Israel protesters of 2024 are trying to emulate the demonstrations that took place in many of the same universities back in the late 1960s. But are the two movements really comparable and, if so, how? And what are the ramifications for American foreign policy toward Israel? The following article is adapted from a Hebrew…

Me with members of the Zionist underground in the USSR Share More than forty years ago, I celebrated Passover with the Zionist underground in the Soviet Union. Young Jews whose only crime was to learn Hebrew and yearn to move to Israel were hounded by the KGB and threatened with years of hard labor in…

This is Part III of a three-part series on the radicalization of Middle East studies. Over the past five decades Middle East studies have had a profound impact on the region. It has long been less an academic field than an ideological battlefield— and here is my report from the front. Read Part I here and Part…

This is Part II of a three-part series on the radicalization of Middle East studies. Over the past five decades Middle East studies have had a profound impact on the region. It has long been less an academic field than an ideological battlefield— and here is my report from the front. Read Part I here. Stay…

How Did the War Begin? With Iran’s Appeasers in Washington Historians will look back and wonder how the U.S. not only allowed Iran to repeatedly assault its citizens, soldiers, and allies—but rewarded it for doing so. MICHAEL OREN APR 14, 2024 71 34 Share This article originally appeared in The Free Press. Joe Biden and Secretary…

Field of Fire: Fifty Years in Middle East Studies Part I: The Article That Altered My Life. MICHAEL OREN APR 11, 2024 12 1 Share This is Part I of a three-part series on the radicalization of Middle East studies. Over the past five decades Middle East studies have had a profound impact on the…