Danny Orbach

The writer is a military historian from the Asian Studies and history departments at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His latest book is The Plots against Hitler (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).

 POLICE OFFICERS flank Adolf Eichmann at his trial in Jerusalem, in 1961. High-ranking Hamas figures should be subjected to a transparent and widely publicized trial, similar in style to the Eichmann trial, the writer argues.

Hamas terrorists must face public trials in Israeli courts

PALESTINIANS CELEBRATE Nakba Day at Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate in 2014

A deserted people: The decline of the Palestinian national movement

PROTESTERS HOLD signs during a ‘March For Our Lives’ demonstration demanding gun control in Sacramento, California, March 2018

Gunning for reasonable restrictions


Why the Poles are frustrated

What justification is there for the new law banning use of the term ‘Polish death camps’?

SUPPORTERS OF the Polish National Radical Camp Party gather in support of the Holocaust bill in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, February 2018

The owl: Another political love affair?

Israel’s unofficial alliance with Saudi Arabia might tempt it to repeat the mistakes of the past.

SAUDI CROWN Prince Mohammad bin Salman looks on as he meets with French President Emmanuel Macron in Riyadh last week

The owl: Why do 'progressives' adore mass murders?

Many progressives around the world admire or at least sympathize with people they share nothing with, except the notion of “resistance.”

Images of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara at a ceremony commemorating the Argentinean revolutionary’s death in Bolivia.

The owl: Populism, not fascism

The attempts of Netanyahu’s administration to augment its authority, its rhetorical intolerance towards rivals and its racism are indeed worrying.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a cabinet meeting

The owl: Israel's alter ego

Oren Hazan is the face of a young, emerging secular Right: mischievous, hedonistic and self-centered.

MK Oren Hazan

The Owl: The Last Sultan

A new Turkish drama gives us fascinating insight into antisemitism, anti-Zionism and everything in between.

TURKISH PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan greets the audience during a ceremony to mark the 16th anniversary of his ruling AK Party’s foundation in Ankara, August 14.

The Owl: Squaring the circle

An open letter to Avi Gabbay.

Avi Gabbay

The Owl: Remembering, for a better future

Don’t immerse yourselves in sadness, but fill yourselves with fear and awe and take responsibility for the future.

Michal Kastan-Keidar

The owl: The dangers of mixing politics with entertainment

What are the possible perils of bringing humor into politics?

Donald Trump as star of the successful reality TV show ‘The Apprentice.’

The Owl: Not everything about Purim is funny

One of the overriding lessons of a holiday in which so much seems arbitrary is the need for order and law.

Purim celebrants in Jerusalem