This week marked the third anniversary of the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.  Stories that make Democrats look bad (or Republicans look good) are usually forgotten by the media, and Afghanistan is no exception.  This was the single greatest foreign policy disaster in decades, comparable to the attacks on the embassy in Benghazi in 2012, the hostages being taken in Iran in 1979, or the last helicopter out of Saigon in 1975.  This was not only a defining moment in the Joe Biden presidency, but a harbinger of what a Kamala Harris presidency will look like. 

Shame on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for giving succor, credibility and legitimacy to these dangerous groups plaguing Chicago and elsewhere.

 (August 26, 2024 / JNS) It’s very troubling that President Joe Biden said during his Democratic National Convention speech that “those [anti-Israel] protesters out in the street, they have a point.” Similarly, during her interview with The Nation in July, Vice President Kamala Harris stated that the anti-Israel “protesters” “are showing exactly what the human emotion should be, as a response to Gaza. … I understand the emotion behind it.”

This week, federal law enforcement officials executed a series of raids on several top aides of New York City Mayor Eric Adams, signaling the emergence of a new criminal investigation. Reports from local news outlets indicate that the FBI executed search warrants at the homes of Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Philip Banks, and First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright, who shares a residence with Schools Chancellor David Banks. Additionally, phones belonging to NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban and senior adviser Timothy Pearson were also seized. The investigations have even extended to Terence Banks, a consultant and brother to both Philip and David Banks, indicating a deepening probe into the mayor’s inner circle.

Can you imagine the international reaction if in the month of August, there had been 90 attempts by Jews to murder Palestinian Arabs? 

(September 10, 2024 / JNS) There’s been a huge increase in attempts to murder Jews in Judea and Samaria in recent weeks, but you wouldn’t know it from reading The New York Times or watching CNN. Because, it seems, some terrorist attacks just don’t count.

On Saturday, August 31, six hostages, including American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who were taken by Hamas on October 7, were found executed by Hamas as IDF soldiers were closing in. I attempted to write an official statement at that time, but no statement I could conceive of put that act of unspeakable barbarity in the appropriate context of overall systemic barbarity on the part of Hamas and its patron Iran – the head of the snake – and the series of harmful actions and inaction by the United States generally, and the Biden administration specifically, which led to these six hostages being murdered. To attempt to isolate and mourn this event in isolation is to ignore the continuum of events that led to the murder of these six innocents, and I can no longer mourn victims in a vacuum. Every such episode is an opportunity to demand a change for what got us here.