The End of the Diaspora? While governments pay lip service to fighting antisemitism, acts of Jew-hatred multiply daily and are rapidly normalizing. Michael Oren • May 05, 2026 Speaking at pro-Israel events around the world for nearly fifty years, I rarely receive a question I haven’t heard a hundred times. But at a recent conference…

Israel must once again adopt the slogan — ‘No deal is better than a bad deal.’ More than a decade ago, at the height of President Obama’s efforts to negotiate a nuclear agreement with Iran, Israel adopted the slogan, “No deal is better than a bad deal.” A bad deal, Israeli officials explained, was one…

Before Europe casts us off completely, perhaps we should separate first. It’s time, I maintain, to say goodbye. This week, on Yom Hashoa, a friend told me a story I had never heard—how her father as a young Jew in Libya during World War II was arrested by the Italians and later, after the Nazis…

Prior to Wednesday at 3 a.m. the majority of Israelis supported a war they hoped would result in a fundamental alteration of their reality. The ceasefire seems to have smashed those hopes. This piece was published last Thursday in The Free Press. Since then, the challenges facing Israel have only multiplied. The American mainstream media,…

One view of the ceasefire spells strategic disaster, the other, hope. Whichever perspective, Israel must prepare for the ongoing confrontation with Iran and its proxies. There are two ways of looking at the missiles fired by Iran at Israel on Wednesday morning after the United States announced a ceasefire. One way spells strategic disaster for…

America’s national derangement poses almost insurmountable challenges to supporters of the Jewish state.   For the past 50 years, in capacities both official and voluntary, before the American press, on campuses, and in a corpus of op-eds, I have spent most of my time defending the state of Israel. Though not always keen to justify…

Iran and the fifty-year parade of ignored evidence. On February 28, the United States and Israel struck Iran. Khamenei killed and soon replaced. Oil markets in crisis, Iranian missiles targeting NATO facilities, and yet European leaders are saying, “This is not our war.” We are watching this and asking, how does this end? To me,…

Unlike the Wise Son who acknowledges that Jewish law and Jewish life are complicated and approaches them as a Jew, the Wicked Son sets himself apart from his people and doesn’t really bother to ask. When, last January, he was accosted by pro-Palestinian protesters who accused him of being a “genocide denier,” a “liberal Zionist…