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Opinion

Jerusalem Post's talented team of journalists provides insight into their work presented in the opinion section. This section highlights the beliefs and values that experienced writers who are witnessing ... Read morethe Middle East turmoil unfold. Their first hand encounters with world leaders have shaped their opinions and world views to be shared on this page. Less

Israel and Azerbaijan

Netanyahu's expected visit to Baku sends shockwaves through Tehran

 President Isaac Herzog hosts Ines Nissim, a Holocaust survivor, as part of the Zikaron Basalon series, April 25, 2022.

Zikaron Basalon transforms the stories of Holocaust survivors into living memory

By Michal Lipman 
 Israelis soldiers at a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. April 23, 2025.

Remembering all those taken from us, by the Nazis and by Hamas

 PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG and new US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee shake hands at the ceremony at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem on Monday at which Huckabee presented his credentials. His appointment symbolizes the deep religious bond between the US and Israel, says the writer.

Americanism and Zionism are inseparable

 THIS HOLOCAUST Remembrance Day, I want to reflect not just on those we lost, but on those who lived – who survived – and who gave my life new meaning, says the writer.

Honoring Holocaust survivors: A call to remember the living and their legacy

By ALYSSA ANNIS
 THE WORDS ‘arbeit macht frei’ hang above the gate at Auschwitz: ‘At Auschwitz and Birkenau, what stood out wasn’t just what we saw; it was what we didn’t hear,’ says the writer.

At Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Jewish Holocaust story is pushed to the margins

By YAEL BEN MOSHE
Second generation to Holocaust survivor light a remembrance candle at the camp

How a daring Holocaust-era decision can serve as a precedent for haredim today

 A PROTESTER holds a sign with a crossed swastika in the colors of an Israeli flag during a demonstration in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, in Dublin last year.

Holocaust inversion: The dangerous rhetoric equating Israel to Nazi Germany

By ABRAHAM RUSSELL SHALEV
 VISITORS AT Yad Vashem in Jerusalem this week: The Holocaust did not discriminate. Its victims came from all segments of Jewish society – across political, religious, economic, and cultural lines. In the camps and ghettos, all differences disappeared. What remained was the shared fate of a people.

The Holocaust: Faith, truth, and the lessons we must never forget

By SHAI FINKELSTEIN
VIOLA AMHERD, then-Swiss federal president, poses with MK Yuli Edelstein, chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky at a summit on peace in Ukraine, in Switzerland last year.

Five reasons why it is right to sanction Russia but not sanction Israel

By MICHAEL FREILICH
Tunisian Jews were enlisted into forced labor by the Nazis during their six-month occupation from November 1942

The urgent need to acknowledge North African Jews in Israeli memory

By HAIM SAADON
Shin Bet director Ronen Bar seen at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, November 6, 2022

The Shin Bet bombshell demands a criminal investigation

Yom HaShoa: There are only 220,800 Holocaust survivors left in the world according to recent surveys.

Yom HaShoah: A time to remember, a time to rise - opinion

By Deb Lust Zaluda
 Yehuda Setton

Remembering the Holocaust isn’t enough, we must also build - opinion

By YEHUDA SETTON
 A message displayed during Irsh pop band Kneecaps performance at Coachella music festival.

Coachella’s anti-Israel moment shows how truth is lost in the crowd

 YOUTH TAKE part in The March of the Living at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland on Holocaust Remembrance Day last year. ‘As a mayor, an Israeli, a Jew, and someone who has experienced the profound heartbreak of the past year and a half, I travel there with a heavy heart but also a deep sense of purpose.

Remembering the past, protecting the future: Sderot mayor's personal March of the Living

By ALON DAVIDI
 PEOPLE STAND still in Tel Aviv as a two-minute siren sounds across Israel to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, last year. This year, memory is not enough. We cannot afford to repeat the failure; no more words – we need action, the writer asserts.

The failure of Holocaust Remembrance Day: Let's not just remember, but learn from it

By MICAH AVNI
 THE WRITER speaks at a rally calling for the release of the hostages in Gaza, at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, last month.

Trump, if you're reading this: 'Bring my husband home from Gaza'

By Lishay miran-lavi
 Visitors seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on May 2, 2024, ahead of Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Holocaust Remembrance Day and Armenian genocide: A moment of shared remembrance

By SHMUEL LEDERMAN
 A WELCOME sign to the community of Kedumim in Samaria: For millions of Jewish Americans, and many Christians, Judea and Samaria are an integral part of their spiritual and religious heritage; using their correct names is an affirmation of their religious and cultural identity, the writer argues.

Time for Congress to ditch 'West Bank,' call it Judea and Samaria

By natalie sopinsky
 A PRO-PALESTINIAN Jewish protester participates in a demonstration calling for the release of Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, in New York City last week. Psychologists might unpack how Jews produce so many un-Jews, says the writer.

Hmm... maybe anti-Zionism really is antisemitic

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