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Alan Elsner

Journalist and author Alan Elsner was a Reuters correspondent for 30 years and has a long record of Jewish and pro-Israel advocacy. He is currently Vice President of Communications for J Street. Elsner covered the State Department for Reuters and was US National Correspondent. He was also Nordic Bureau chief based in Stockholm and a correspondent in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. He began his career with The Jerusalem Post in 1978. Elsner is an Israeli citizen who served in the Israel Defense Forces during the 1982 Lebanon War. He was also an architect of a successful campaign to build a fitting memorial and museum at the site of the Belzec Nazi extermination camp in Poland. Elsner is the author of two novels and two works of non-fiction.
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The Torah and migrants

APRIL 26, 2018
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What A Visit Down Memory Lane Told Me About Trump

OCTOBER 18, 2017
Defense minister Moshe Dayan and chief of staff Yitzhak Rabin (second right) in the Old City of Jerusalem, June 7, 1967

How should we remember the Six Day War?

As we approach the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War, a struggle is already developing over how this landmark historical event is commemorated and interpreted.

MAY 18, 2017

Jerusalem Post Must Ask Tough Questions of Trump Official Sebastian Gorka at its Conference

APRIL 27, 2017

US policy unmoored

President Trump’s casual comments signaling a pullback from the two-state solution threaten a one-state outcome.

MARCH 7, 2017
President Donald Trump (R) greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a joint news conference at the White House.

Trump’s challenge to American Jews

For once as Jews, we are not first in the firing line, but that does not excuse us from the duty of defending those who are.

DECEMBER 6, 2016
US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2016 Policy Conference

Nothing to fear from Hillary Clinton

Israelis need to take a wider perspective on which of the candidates is good for Israel.

OCTOBER 31, 2016
Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Hillary Clinton accepts the nomination on the fourth and final night at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 28, 2016.

Donald Trump and David Grossman - A Study in Contrasts

MARCH 23, 2016

Rubio's West Bank Initiative Unfit for Prime Time

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Oppose Incitement Against Israeli NGOs

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Jewish opinion in America I

The fact was that even among the most committed, the community was deeply divided on the Iran issue.

NOVEMBER 29, 2015
An American Jewish man praying

Reviving Trilateral Commission on Incitement Could Help Situation

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Acrimony in America I

A divided Jewish community: How did it come to this?

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his speech to US Congress on March 3, 2015, with US Speaker of the House John Boehner and President pro tempore of the US Senate Orrin Hatch applauding behind him