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LONG BEFORE Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich were anywhere near the Israeli government, the world was fiercely critical of Israel. So much for blaming Israel’s hasbara problems on the Israeli right wing, the writer asserts.

An anti-Israel media is nothing new: A walk through Western cartoons

By DAVID M. WEINBERG

The sixth World Forum for Intercultural Dialogue in Baku, Azerbaijan. 2024

World leaders tackle antisemitism at Global Forum in Azerbaijan

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

ROBERT BARUH WALTL shows the WJC delegation around the synagogue in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Uploaded on 1/5/2024

World Jewish Congress delegation journeys to Slovenia to combat antisemitism

By BEN M. FREEMAN

The cargo ship Mehmet Bey waits to pass through the Bosphorus Strait off the shores of Yenikapi during a misty morning in Istanbul, Turkey, October 31, 2022

Navigating China's trade corridors and Israel's strategic choices

By CATHERINE PEREZ-SHAKDAM , Stepan Stepanenko

Nigerian Kehinde Avose wears chains on his neck while re-enacting the days of slavery for American visitors in the former slave port of Badagry town south-west Nigeria August 25, 2002. More than fifty black Americans, including seven mayors, are in Lagos for the Second Black Heritage Festival.

Four people arrested for supposedly enslaving mentally disabled man for 17 years in Portugal

By REUTERS

Scotland's first minister and Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Humza Yousaf arrives at St Giles' Cathedral to attend a National Service of Thanksgiving and Dedication, in Edinburgh on July 5, 2023.

Scotland's Humza Yousaf resigns as country's leader

By REUTERS

EU FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF Josep Borrell arrives to attend an EU-Israel Association Council in Brussels in 2022. ‘We really want to see Europe standing up and recognizing the right of Israel to protect itself,’ Szijjarto says.

'Another blow to Iran': EU votes in favor of resolution against Islamic Republic

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

AN ANTI-ISRAEL billboard with a picture of Iranian missiles is seen on a street in Tehran last week. When Iran fired over 300 projectiles at us, it seemed like the region could be heading toward World War III, says the writer.

We must help fellow Jews become full-fledged members of our nation

By HAYIM LEITER

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni

As African migration to Europe spikes, Tunisia takes center stage in Italy’s foreign policy agenda

By DEBBIE MOHNBLATT/THE MEDIA LINE

Social Democratic Party (PSD) and Democratic Alliance (AD) leader Luis Montenegro talks to the media after meeting with President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa in Belem Palace, following the general elections in Lisbon, Portugal, March 20, 2024.

Portugal must 'pay costs' of slavery and colonial crimes, president says

By REUTERS

SECURITY FORCES arrive at the scene of a stabbing attack in Jerusalem, last month. Contrary to a narrative popularly pushed by Western leaders and the media, Palestinian terrorism isn’t just conducted by the extremists in Palestinian society, the writer argues. (20/4/2024)

What are the implications of the Israeli expansion in the West Bank

By ALIZA PILICHOWSKI

Ben-Zion Gopstein (left), leader of the group Lehava, gathers with some of his young followers in Jerusalem in 2014

EU sanctions hilltop youth, Lehava for human rights violations in the West Bank

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Israel supporters hold flags as they protest, following Hamas' biggest attack on Israel in years, in Paris, France, October 9, 2023

Gaza war leaves European perceptions of Israel unchanged, survey finds

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER Shlomo Karhi attends a Knesset National Security Committee meeting, last month. He should be congratulated for his persistence and success in taking down a channel that supports Hamas, the writer argues.

Shuttering Al Jazeera is crucial and the decision is better late than never

By David Ben-Basat

Demonstrators protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, in London, on Saturday.

Europe’s looming future: Rising antipathy toward Jews and Israel

By ROBERT HERSOWITZ

Taoiseach Simon Harris gestures after receiving a majority parliamentary vote to become the next Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland, in Dublin, Ireland, April 9, 2024.

Ireland says moving closer to recognizing Palestinian state

By REUTERS

Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Spain Pedro Sánchez - illustration

Spain’s PM Sanchez is attacking Israel for his political survival

A Hamas terrorist stands in front of a picture of the group's top leader Ismail Haniyeh during his visit at Ain el Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon, Lebanon September 6, 2020

EU and US impose sanctions on Hamas and Islamic Jihad

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF , HANNAH SARISOHN , REUTERS