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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 the Middle East turmoil unfold. Their first hand encounters with world leaders have shaped their opinions and world views to be shared on this page.

 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, this week in New York City; just as Jews were once banned from universities in Europe under the Nazis right before the Holocaust, today, Jewish students at Columbia face similar discrimination and fear, the writer warns.

You are poison Ivy: Taking action as antisemitism storms American universities

 Israeli soldiers of the Netzah Yehuda Haredi infantry battalion are seen during their swearing-in ceremony in Jerusalem May 26, 2013, marking the end of their basic training in the Israeli Defense Forces. Israel clinched a deal on Wednesday to abolish wholesale exemptions from military service for

Targeting Netzach Yehuda is is a grave injustice

By STEVE ROSEDALE
 AN IDF soldier on a military vehicle near the Gaza border last week; The low ratio of civilian-to-combatant deaths is noteworthy as the war is fought in dense urban areas where civilians have little protection, and Hamas fighters are protected in underground tunnels, says the writer.

There is no warrant to Israel genocide claim

By EUGENE KORN
 STUDENTS HOLD a protest encampment in support of Palestinians on the Columbia University campus, in New York City, this week.

A crisis both in the Middle East and in America

By DAVID JABLINOWITZ
Soccer Football - Trophee des Champions - Paris St Germain v Nantes - Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv, Israel - July 31, 2022 Paris St Germain's Lionel Messi during the warm up before the match, July 31, 2022.

Only a Messi-like leader can heal and unite a fractured Israel

By Romy Leibler/The Media Line
 The Knesset building, home of Israel's legislature, in Jerusalem, on November 14, 2022 (Illustrative).

Time to rebuild the government before it's fully destroyed

By MORAN ZER KATZENSTEIN
 US PRESIDENT Joe Biden speaks on the phone with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, last week.

The war in Gaza and Biden’s calculations in light of it

 A SEDER table bears the names of all of the hostages down the center.

Seder night gave us a chance to pause and remember those lost in the war

 Senators Joe Lieberman (left) and John McCain visit the Western Wall on March 19, 2008.

Senator Joe Lieberman and 'The Jerusalem Report'

By HOWARD BLAS
 People climb the Alma Mater statue to see the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Mike Johnson (R-LA) during a press conference at Columbia University in response to demonstrators protesting in support of Palestinians, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist g

A 'punch in the gut' for Columbia alumni

By SARAH SCHACHNE HIRSCHFELD
 Students crossing the lawn in front of the Faye and Joe Wyatt Center for Education on the campus of Peabody College at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., September 18, 2018.

The risks of segregation: Why building separate Jewish schools might worsen antisemitism

By ATTILA SOMFALVI
 Yossi Melman

This Israeli journalist warned Netanyahu's Hamas policy would lead to war

 IN HIS resignation letter, IDF Military Intelligence Directorate Chief Maj.-Gen. Aharon Haliva states that he would like to take responsibility for what happened on October 7 and promises to do his best to complete as many of the war’s goals as possible.

Politicians: Learn from the generals who took responsibility following Oct. 7

 A FAMILY participates in their Passover Seder in 2023.

From COVID-19 to Israel-Hamas War: Passover in trying times

 Hersh Goldberg-Polin

Clip of Hersh Goldberg-Polin evokes joy and heartbreak throughout the country

 Protests at Columbia University, April 24, 2024.

I went to a Seder at Columbia while protests raged outside - opinion

By STEVEN ZEITCHIK
 People climb the Alma Mater statue to see the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Mike Johnson (R-LA) during a press conference at Columbia University in response to demonstrators protesting in support of Palestinians, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist g

It might be time to start our own Jewish Ivy League - editor's notes

 Protests continue at Columbia University in New York during the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, April 22, 2024

The masks have come off at Columbia: Students turning on Jewish peers

 FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich sits among empty seats at the cabinet table in the Knesset plenum. A major part of our problem is the structure of our parliamentary system which makes ministerial assignments a reward for party loyalty and support for the coalition, says the writer.

Israel's security is threatened by incompetent leadership

 Demonstrators sit in an encampment as they protest in solidarity with Pro-Palestinian organizers on the Columbia University campus, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in New York City, US. April 19, 2024.

Anti-Israel groups on campus must be threatened with their academic standing

 A PROTEST takes place in Chicago last October. The terrifying chant, ‘From the river to the sea,’ demonstrates a vision of the full destruction of democratic Israel and its inhabitants, the writer asserts.

A pan-Palestinian plan as an alternative to a two-state solution

By JOEL ROSKIN
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