Ziva Dahl

Ziva Dahl is a retired financial investment advisor with an MA in public law and government from Columbia University. She writes and lectures about US – Israel relations, US foreign policy, Israel, Zionism, anti-Semitism and BDS on college campuses.

French olim arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport, July 10, 2017

The beginning of the end of the Diaspora in France

In 2015, two days after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, four Jews were murdered at a Paris kosher supermarket, Hypercacher. Since then, violence against French Jews has become commonplace.

MARCH 10, 2019

Belgian soldiers stand guard on Brussels' Grand Place

Denial of religious freedom for Belgian Jews

JANUARY 5, 2019

PERES receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, in 1994 alongside Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat.

25 years after Oslo, the U.S. pressures Palestinians to give up a lost war

Trump is playing hardball. So far he hasn’t fallen into the Oslo trap. He’s attempting to demoralize the Palestinians to destroy their will to fight a lost war.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Netanyahu will play an important role at the Trump-Putin Summit

Iran is now a thorn in Putin’s side. With the Assad regime secure, Putin believes Iranian military activity in Syria is no longer justified and could threaten Russia’s position there.

JULY 14, 2018

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands as they attend an event marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 75th anniversary of the breakthrough of the Nazi siege of Leningrad in World War II, at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in

Putin eyes Mideast role for Russia

Does Putin succeed in enhancing Russia’s position as a global power? Will there be cooperation between Russia and the US? Putin hopes so.

JUNE 27, 2018

Russian military jets are seen at Hmeymim air base in Syria

UN ground zero for antisemitism and incitement on a global scale

“The Israeli occupation...leave[s] [Palestinian] prisoners exposed to deadly diseases....The Israeli occupation is the world’s only entity in which doctors torture and blackmail prisoners.”

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

UNITED NATIONS Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrives to address media at the UN headquarters

The New Reality: Anti-Semitism on Campus

NOVEMBER 1, 2015