Abraham H. Foxman

No one knows what Israel's actual intentions are regarding Iran and its nuclear program. How much of what Israeli leaders say reflects their real intentions and how much is intended to goad the international community to action is unknown. The revelation of the sophisticated computer virus known as

In the ongoing discussion about when criticism of Israel can be labeled as anti-Semitism, Nathan Sharansky made a seminal pedagogical contribution with his Three Ds. He said that it's anti-Semitism when Israel is demonized, when Israel is delegitimized and when a double-standard is used to assess Israeli behavior.

Clearly, all...

Peter Beinart has a point. Up to a point.

In a recent article, "The Other One-Staters," Beinart, a critic of Israeli policies and of organized Jewish support for Israel, points out an apparent contradiction in the positions of those who oppose the one-state solution idea for the Israeli-Palestinian...

The fact that President Barack Obama so eloquently explained that Iran's nuclear program is a threat to world peace and not only to Israel has been appropriately hailed as a step that is beneficial to Israel. Israel has been saying this for some time, both because it is...

On many levels, U.S.-Israeli coordination on the issue of Iran's nuclear program is better than ever. President Barack Obama and the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu both say that Iran cannot be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon. Both agree it is a threat to the whole world, and...

This week we commemorate the 70th anniversary of a shameful and dark chapter in American history. On Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which provided the legal authority for the forced relocation and incarceration of 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent -- the vast majority of...

For a number of decades, I have been deeply engaged in promoting close relationships between the United States and Turkey and between Israel and Turkey.

I am deeply pained, however, that even as Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu travels to the United States this week for talks with Secretary...

New York Times columnist Tom Friedman and others have been writing about their ambivalence concerning the Muslim Brotherhood's electoral victory in Egypt. On the one hand, they write, the ideology of the Brotherhood over the years has been anti-democratic, anti-American, anti-Israel and anti-rights for women, gays, and other...

There's no doubt immigration will be one of the critical political and social issues of 2012. While substantial progress has been made on one significant concern -- improving border security -- overall the system remains broken. Whether America is successful in reforming it depends on the tone of the discussion...

As the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, I have articulated on many an occasion and have initiated many programs on the basis of the idea that the Holocaust should teach us profound lessons about hate in general. ADL has a variety of programs, for the FBI, the CIA, local...

When it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, perhaps no newspaper's coverage generates more passionate and emotional reaction from the Jewish community in America and around the world than that of the New York Times.

Not surprisingly, the newspaper often becomes the target of withering attacks from those who believe that...

The notion that Israel is primarily responsible for deteriorating relations with Turkey, Egypt and the Palestinians, as claimed by U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in his speech to the 2011 Saban Forum, is more than simply inaccurate. It is disturbing and potentially dangerous.

While bad at any time,...

There are many reasons why the recent spate of domestic legislation in Israel -- regarding non-governmental organizations, the media, Israel as a Jewish State, the Supreme Court -- is disturbing.

In many of these cases, the Knesset is addressing real and challenging problems. But it is doing so in the...

A Baptist pastor describes the Mormon faith as a "cult" and proclaims that he would prefer not to vote for a Mormon candidate. Another Christian leader calls for Americans to elect "a man of sincere, authentic, genuine Christian faith."

Here we go again.

Another presidential election year has brought...

Dear Mr. President:

For those of us who have placed great hopes in your leadership to transform the path of the Palestinians, your words and actions over the past year, culminating in your speech to the United Nations on September 23, have been disillusioning.

Let me be...

For months Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has traversed the globe, lobbying members of the United Nations to vote in support of a unilaterally declared Palestinian state. This is the week when he will take this long-threatened action, and when the member states will decide to support or oppose the...

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were a national and personal tragedy. It was one of the darkest days in the history of America. Many of us knew people who died that day at the World Trade Center.

But it was also a day of resolve.

For those...

When discussion first surfaced a year or two ago about an Israeli call for the Palestinians to recognize Israel as a "Jewish State," criticisms of the Israeli government burst forth. Why was Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu adding a new requirement? It's unrealistic, it was said, and demonstrated anew that the...

President Barack Obama's speeches at the State Department and to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee provoked strong and diverse reactions in the Jewish community. Some castigated the president, particularly for his reference to the pre-1967 lines "with land swaps" as the basis for Palestinian-Israeli talks....

Over and over again I'd hear these perorations from certain Jewish circles arguing that there is no difference between Fatah and Hamas, or between Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Maashal. I would cringe at such comments, while knowing full well that Abu Mazen was hardly the perfect interlocutor.

I'm a strong...