Author: David Rutman

I recently spoke in the U.S. about the “red-green alliance” — the growing cooperation between Islamists in the West and the radical left, which has become a major driver of Israel’s delegitimization and rising antisemitism. I argued that its most damaging effect is the creation of an imagined anti-Israel majority, a perception that leaves many […]

The headline read like a Hollywood movie pitch: “As Israel Readies Invasion, Charter Plane Carrying Reservists Heads to Tel Aviv.” But it wasn’t a script, it was reality. Just days after Hamas invaded Israel, a few friends gathered in a Los Angeles hotel room, joined by others over FaceTime, creating a makeshift “situation room.” Their […]

The incoming mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, has assembled his Rotisserie League team of political advisors, all of whom, not surprisingly, are certified antisemites with minors in anti-Zionist, pro-Hamas advocacy. New York Jews should ready themselves to get roasted. Surely not in the manner of the Third Reich, or Hamas on October 7, but […]

At Jewish community events across Los Angeles, you’ll see a short elderly man wearing a baseball cap reading “102 Years Young” moving with the vigor of someone half his age, greeting all comers with a firm handshake. Meet Joseph Alexander, a Los Angeles-based survivor of 12 concentration camps who just celebrated his 103rd birthday on […]

Extremists don’t scare me. If I were offered an interview with the head of Hamas or Hezbollah, I wouldn’t dare reject it on account that I’d be platforming bigots and antisemites. On the contrary: I would see it as an opportunity to expose their bigotry. That’s why I’m troubled by this idea that one should […]

Tucker Carlson has spent years sanding down the edges of old antisemitic narratives and repackaging them as elevated commentary about “Western civilization.” But last week, on the Shawn Ryan Show, he aggressively abandoned the polish. What emerged was not just his open hostility toward Israel. It was an attempt to evict Jews from the very […]

“I saw miracles day after day.” Omer Shem Tov proclaimed this from the stage at Sinai Temple on Thursday, Nov. 20, where he spoke to a packed room about his captivity. The Jewish National Fund-USA event, titled, “505 Days: Omer Shem Tov’s Story of Survival from Gaza,” featured a Q&A with Rabbi Nicole Guzik and Rabbi […]