Dan Diker

Dan Diker is a research fellow and the director of the Program to Counter Political Warfare and BDS at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA). He previously served as the Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress (WJC). Email: diker@jcpa.org


 The flag alley at the United Nations European headquarters is seen during the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, September 11, 2023.

The UN, not Israel, should be erased and rewritten - opinion

 Demonstrators hold placards as they protest on the day of a hearing on the detention of Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, in New York City, U.S., March 12, 2025.

The hypocrisy of the human rights industrial complex - opinion

 IRAN’S AYATOLLAH Ali Khamenei meets with then-Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, in Tehran, in May. Iran’s implosion is largely the result of its overextended $1 billion per year proxy program, and Iran’s Syrian vassal has collapsed, says the writer.

Failing Iranian state gives growing opportunity for regime change - opinion


Israel is now the Middle East Strong Horse - opinion

 Dr. Dan Diker, President of the Jerusalem Center for Foreign Affairs

Hamas’s hostage homicide is a long-war strategy - opinion

An Israeli pullout from the Philadelphi Corridor would leave this vital passage in the hands of Hamas, enabling the terror group to maintain power, rearm, and resupply.

 DEMONSTRATORS demand the immediate release of the hostages held in Gaza, during a visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in Tel Aviv last month. Despite US mediation efforts and Israel’s offers, Hamas plays by its own rules, the writer maintains.

Israel’s strike on Hamas Leader Haniyeh signals defiance to Iran - opinion

The elimination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh marks a pivotal shift in Israel's anti-terror strategy, sending a strong message to Iran and its proxies.

IRAN’S SUPREME Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei meets with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (center) and Islamic Jihad chief Ziad al-Nakhala in Tehran, on Tuesday.

Netanyahu’s crucial address: Exposing Iran’s threat to the West - opinion

Netanyahu’s existential mission is to convince and mobilize the West to align with Israel against Iranian aggression. 

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint session of Congress in 2015. In his speech, Netanyahu intensified his admonition of the Iranian ayatollah government, forecasting its terror proxies’ strangulation of the region, the writer says.

Iran's Siamese twins: Hezbollah and Hamas's massacre strategy - Opinion

According to Israeli military planners, Hezbollah was supposed to carry out the same invasion, mass murder, and kidnapping that Hamas carried out alone under Iranian instruction.

 Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah gives a televised address at a memorial ceremony to mark one week since the passing of Mohammad Yaghi, one of the powerful armed group's figures, in Baalbek, Lebanon January 5, 2024.

Did years of pro-Hamas support on US campuses lead to October 7? - opinion

Western academic bone fides helped Hamas gain international legitimacy, even for its terror actions, to which global condemnations of Israel’s war against Hamas attest.

 Demonstrators take part in an Emergency Rally: Stand with Palestinians Under Siege in Gaza at Harvard University on October 14, 2023.

America’s mainstreaming of Hamas, antisemitism, and terror - opinion

Hamas’s Nazification of Israel and the Jews should be taken seriously. This extremist ideology is inciting violence against Jews and Jewish institutions across North America today.

 MEMBERS OF Chicago Youth Liberation for Palestine protest at a local Starbucks coffeehouse on Sunday, amid anti-Israel protests across the US.

Has the Palestinian 'apartheid assault' backfired? - opinion

While the apartheid libel continues to damage Israel and wound Diaspora Jews in violent antisemitic attacks, the PA’s political outreach and popularity in the West has failed it in the Arab East.

Posters in support of Palestinian rights have appeared on the London Underground to mark Israeli Apartheid Week

Palestinian hybrid warfare is a strategic threat to Israel's security

Defense Minister Benny Gantz’ exposes there are operational and financial links between Palestinian terror organizations and civil society- “human rights” groups -funded largely by European countries

 IDF thwarting a a massive Hamas terrorist network in the West Bank, November 22, 2021.

Disentangling antisemitism from political criticism of Israel - opinion

Clarifying and contextualizing the difference between these two contrasting terms may help “defog” the clouded view on the increasingly disingenuous, deceptive discourse on Israel.

A man waves an Israeli flag during a rally against antisemitism, in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in May.