Archive of Isi's Writing

Isi's columns are listed below. Alternatively, you can see the list of books by Isi Leibler.


2010 Archive

Rosh Hashanah Greetings (Sep 6 2010)
Clean Up The Claims Conference (Aug 25 2010)
More on the Claims Conference (Aug 23 2010)
Anti-Semitism soars in Holland (Aug 19 2010)
Bungle at Israeli London Embassy (Aug 18 2010)
Claims Conference: Isi Leibler Interviewed on Israel National News radio with Walter Bingham (Aug 15 2010)
Restraint or deterrence (Aug 12 2010)
Claims Conference: Cry Gevalt now! (Aug 5 2010)
Jews and the mosque at Ground Zero (Aug 3 2010)
Conversion: The Deafening Silence of Religious Zionists (Jul 29 2010)
J Street disingenuous (Jul 25 2010)
The arrogance of Claims Conference leaders (Jul 22 2010)
J Street’s outrageous new initiative (Jul 19 2010)
Change in Obama’s Israel policy? (Jul 15 2010)
Scandal at the Claims Conference (Jul 13 2010)
Stalinism at Ben-Gurion University (Jul 10 2010)
Israel, Diaspora Jews not equal partners (Jul 8 2010)
The forthcoming Netanyahu - Obama meeting (Jul 4 2010)
Haredi reform now (Jul 1 2010)
Australia’s new PM - a proven friend of Israel (Jun 27 2010)
Netanyahu: Place not your trust in princes (Jun 24 2010)
Why some Israeli liberals lose perspective (Jun 17 2010)
Isi on Shalom TV (Jun 15 2010)
The perfidious UN (Jun 9 2010)
Time to get our act together (Jun 1 2010)
Our Soldiers Speak (Jun 1 2010)
Bogus ‘pro peace’ organizations undermine Israel (May 28 2010)
The Guardian and anti-Israel lies (May 27 2010)
More on TAU and radical university professors (May 25 2010)
The US-Israel crisis is far from over (May 20 2010)
Degenerate Israeli Academics on the Rampage (May 18 2010)
Rejoice on Jerusalem Day (May 12 2010)
From pro-Israel to anti-Israel apologist (Apr 29 2010)
Exposing hypocrisy, cant, falsehood (Apr 22 2010)
Down from the fence (Apr 14 2010)
Prime Minister Netanyahu: Talk to us (Apr 6 2010)
Confronting Obama’s Messiah complex (Mar 31 2010)
Netanyahu must get his act together (Mar 22 2010)
Obama has crossed the line (Mar 16 2010)
French Jews sous pression (Mar 11 2010)
Those bleeding-heart journalists (Mar 3 2010)
Geert Wilders and European democracy (Feb 18 2010)
Inappropriate behavior by former Foreign Ministry Director General at UN sponsored anti-Israel conference (Feb 15 2010)
Confronting Jews who defame Jews (Feb 10 2010)
The impending Haredi implosion (Feb 4 2010)
Ending the illusion of peace in our time (Jan 28 2010)
Today’s great defamation of the Jewish people (Jan 21 2010)
Growing Norwegian hostility (Jan 17 2010)
Obama and Israel: difficult days ahead (Jan 7 2010)

2009 Archive

Stalinism at the Foreign Ministry? (Dec 31 2009)
Favoring a national unity government (Dec 31 2009)
Religious Zionists must disown the zealots (Dec 26 2009)
Competitors try to close down new Israeli Daily (Dec 23 2009)
Far more negative, far more dangerous (Dec 16 2009)
Postscript 2 to “Perfidious Albion and Jewish Leaders” (Dec 15 2009)
Europe has forsaken Israel (Dec 10 2009)
Was Netanyahu’s settlement freeze a betrayal? (Dec 3 2009)
Postscript to Perfidious Albion and Jewish Leaders (Dec 3 2009)
Why does so much of the world hate us? (Nov 26 2009)
Israel is Europe’s blind spot (Nov 25 2009)
Vigilance wanted, apply within (Nov 19 2009)
Kadima must form a unity government, now (Nov 11 2009)
Response / On ‘exorcising’ Israel bashers from the Jewish mainstream (Nov 10 2009)
The incredible gall of Haaretz (Nov 4 2009)
‘Perfidious Albion’ and Jewish leaders (Nov 2 2009)
Haaretz & Right of Reply (Oct 27 2009)
Why make a fuss about J Street? (Oct 22 2009)
President Obama: Do not forsake Israel (Oct 20 2009)
Zionism at the crossroads (Oct 13 2009)
Marginalize the renegades (Oct 6 2009)
Israel has to stop apologizing and take the offensive (Sep 27 2009)
Netanyahu’s address at the UN General Assembly (Sep 25 2009)
More about our Evangelical Friends (Sep 22 2009)
Towards a year of renewal and hope (Sep 17 2009)
There may be worse to come (Aug 25 2009)
Evangelicals: An appreciation (Aug 17 2009)
Sack Consul General Nadav Tamir (Aug 11 2009)
End the blood libels against Israel & the IDF (Aug 4 2009)
American Jews: Stand up and be counted (Jul 28 2009)
The case against Obama (Jul 16 2009)
The religious kulturkampf (Jul 6 2009)
Obama and Israel (Jun 24 2009)
Bogus ‘Zionist’ Israel-bashers (Jun 10 2009)
US-Israel relations: A looming crisis? (Jun 4 2009)
Ugly vibes from Europe (Jun 2 2009)
Getting it wrong with the Pope (May 18 2009)
Obama, Netanyahu and American Jews (May 12 2009)
Netanyahu & the two-state solution (Apr 13 2009)
Blood Libels Manufactured in Israel (Apr 1 2009)
The Challenges facing Religious Zionism (Apr 1 2009)
Jewish blood libels (Mar 26 2009)
The Obama administration, Durban and America’s Jews (Mar 24 2009)
The debate over ‘Durban II’ and the AJC (Mar 17 2009)
Can Bibi do it? (Mar 11 2009)
Isi responds in the New York Times (Mar 11 2009)
Ill winds from Washington (Mar 2 2009)
Livni should set aside her ego for the national interest (Feb 23 2009)
Zionism and the global anti-Semitic frenzy (Feb 16 2009)
Why I support Likud (Feb 3 2009)
Leibler speaks at opening of exhibit on Holocaust survivors finding refuge in Australia (Feb 2 2009)
Diaspora Jews and the war (Jan 26 2009)
Don’t Transform the IDF Victory into a Defeat (Jan 13 2009)
End the cant and hypocrisy (Jan 6 2009)

2008 Archive

Avraham Burg: The ultimate post-Zionist (Dec 28 2008)
Jewish Doves urge Obama to pressure Israel (Dec 25 2008)
Madoff Earthquake (Dec 23 2008)
Exorcise the rot from our midst (Dec 8 2008)
Islamophobia (Nov 27 2008)
Museum of Tolerance Controversy (Nov 23 2008)
The tragedy of Gilad Schalit (Nov 20 2008)
The demise of the Religious Zionist party (Mafdal) (Nov 19 2008)
Nordic Exposure (Nov 11 2008)
Why I endorse Nir Barkat for Mayor of Jerusalem (Nov 6 2008)
Holocaust denier David Irving comments on my latest column (Nov 6 2008)
Rethinking prosecution of Holocaust denial (Nov 4 2008)
Why is the West funding Abbas’ hate TV? (Oct 28 2008)
Jerusalem municipal elections (Oct 28 2008)
Liberal Israeli academics defend the Jewish State (Oct 28 2008)
A courageous rabbi talks to the Catholic synod (Oct 15 2008)
A vehicle promoting evil (Oct 7 2008)
New Leaders and Rosh Hashanah Reflections (Oct 2 2008)
Canadian Israel advocacy in turmoil (Sep 21 2008)
Georgia is not our war (Sep 10 2008)
Debate policies, not personalities (Aug 31 2008)
Exchange with Yehuda Bauer (Aug 29 2008)
WJC embraces an anti-Semite (Aug 19 2008)
Tovia Singer Interviews Isi Leibler (Jul 31 2008)
Don’t confuse interfaith dialogue with groveling (Jul 30 2008)
Post-Olmert: A new era or more of the same? (Jul 24 2008)
Yad Vashem and Hillel Kook (Jul 8 2008)
Enough of political perfidy (Jul 1 2008)
The Barack Obama Enigma and the Jews (Jun 18 2008)
The haredi offensive against religious Zionism (Jun 12 2008)
End of the Olmert regime (Jun 3 2008)
Enough of the empty threats. Act now against Hamas in Gaza (May 22 2008)
Democracy demands transparency (May 12 2008)
With friends like these (Apr 29 2008)
How Israel got Trashed (Apr 23 2008)
Bravo to Michael Melchior (Apr 15 2008)
The rabble that is the Israeli cabinet (Apr 8 2008)
Hillel goes post-modern (Apr 1 2008)
The truth about the Bibi ’scandal’ (Mar 25 2008)
Hudna? A prescription for disaster (Mar 12 2008)
Bravo, President Sarkozy (Mar 6 2008)
The state of Jew-hatred (Feb 24 2008)
Israel needs a national unity government (Feb 19 2008)
Stop promoting Israel-bashers (Feb 8 2008)
Let’s correct the leadership deficit (Feb 6 2008)
Don’t give a platform to Israel-bashing (Jan 29 2008)
Israelis aren’t ‘racist’ - they’re worried (Jan 25 2008)
The first thing leaders need to do (Jan 22 2008)
A nation that is in search of leadership (Jan 15 2008)
Tell President Bush the Truth (Jan 10 2008)
On dialogue between Jews and Muslims (Jan 1 2008)

2007 Archive

“I implore you” Israel wants “to be raped” (Dec 27 2007)
Outright defeatism (Dec 23 2007)
The Jews of struggle (Dec 12 2007)
Olmert, don’t renege on the Jewish state (Dec 5 2007)
One of our best friends defeated (Nov 29 2007)
Stop abusing the memory of Yitzhak Rabin (Nov 21 2007)
Sending our youth the wrong signals (Nov 13 2007)
Shame on ‘Haaretz’ (Nov 7 2007)
Leibler applauds security funding (Oct 17 2007)
A banana republic in the making (Oct 11 2007)
Retreat from reason (Sep 25 2007)
Toward a year of renewal (Sep 11 2007)
Measures against Kassam rocket attacks (Sep 6 2007)
The problem with post-Zionism (Aug 28 2007)
The unholy trinity and Oslo redux (Aug 14 2007)
Hebron Refusal (Aug 9 2007)
A think-tank, first and foremost (Aug 7 2007)
The looming haredi disaster (Aug 1 2007)
Avrum Burg’s Act of Infamy (Jul 10 2007)
Stop appeasing Abu Mazen (Jul 4 2007)
British Jewry in crisis (Jun 26 2007)
WJC - closure and hope (Jun 17 2007)
The chief rabbinate is wrong about Evangelicals (Jun 12 2007)
World Jewish Congress: closure and hope for the future (Jun 11 2007)
John Howard: Champion for Israel (Jun 7 2007)
Why I support Ron Lauder for WJC president (May 31 2007)
No solutions to Qassams? (May 30 2007)
YNET & Jewish Week coverage of WJC (May 10 2007)
Now, the ‘March of the Living’ Scandal (May 9 2007)
Yet another scandal (May 6 2007)
Jerusalem Report Interview on WJC Imbroglio (Apr 16 2007)
‘Satisfaction in clearing my name is balanced by deep sadness’ (Apr 16 2007)
‘Satisfaction in clearing my name is balanced by deep sadness’ (Apr 16 2007)
It’s time to reform the Claims Conference (Apr 11 2007)
Save the World Jewish Congress (Mar 29 2007)
More WJC (Mar 21 2007)
Jews Against Zion (Mar 21 2007)
Interfaith dialogue: Have we gone mad? (Mar 12 2007)
This is not ‘interfaith dialogue’ (Mar 11 2007)
Now make it a full-time job, with real resources (Mar 7 2007)
Birthright Israel… on second thought (Feb 28 2007)
The blight of corrosive corruption (Feb 14 2007)
Be strong and of good courage (Feb 11 2007)
The End of Corruption (Feb 7 2007)
Israelis aren’t ‘racist’ - they’re worried (Jan 25 2007)
Enough of weak leaders! Isi Leibler urges the UK Jewish establishment to abandon its policy of quiet diplomacy (Jan 11 2007)
Enough of weak leaders! (Jan 11 2007)
Give us leadership (Jan 3 2007)
Symposium: Islam, British Society & The Terrorist Threat (Jan 2 2007)

2006 Archive

Israel’s Plummeting Image A Call To Action! (Dec 19 2006)
Winning the battle of ideas (Dec 18 2006)
The Gaza truce: another capitulation to terror (Dec 4 2006)
Jerusalem’s Pride Divide (Nov 24 2006)
Jerusalem’s Pride Divide (Nov 24 2006)
Surrealistic nightmare (Nov 22 2006)
Beware Jewish Billionaires Bearing Gifts (Nov 1 2006)
Weakness fosters anti-Semitism (Oct 31 2006)
A response to Al Jazeera (Oct 26 2006)
Take on the billionaires (Oct 23 2006)
We need the guts to say no to Rice (Oct 16 2006)
‘Bravo Papa!’ (Oct 10 2006)
My Ten Commandments of political reform (Sep 14 2006)
For a year of people power (Sep 6 2006)
Elections now! (Sep 6 2006)
Interfaith dialogue out of control (Sep 5 2006)
What to do about Tel Aviv (Aug 28 2006)
Time for Radical Change (Aug 20 2006)
Defeating the barbarians at our gate (Jul 25 2006)
The value of Holocaust memoirs (Jul 11 2006)
A government’s flawed morality (Jul 4 2006)
Stop apologizing (Jun 21 2006)
Olmert caves in to Bush (Jun 7 2006)
The threat from within (May 24 2006)
Save religious Zionism (May 11 2006)
Big fish, not big headlines (Apr 20 2006)
Don’t demonize good people (Jan 31 2006)
Netanyahu’s new Likud (Jan 25 2006)
The validation of Jewish anti-Zionism (Jan 11 2006)

2005 Archive

The routinization of terror (Dec 21 2005)
Banana republic (Dec 5 2005)
Stop attacking our friends (Nov 29 2005)
When Seymour met Condi (Nov 23 2005)
Don’t Repeat the Same Mistakes (Nov 21 2005)
Storm clouds ahead (Nov 7 2005)
Norman Finkelstein’s world (Nov 1 2005)
The first word: Stop whispering (Oct 19 2005)
Religious Zionists in crisis (Oct 11 2005)
5765, the good and the bad (Sep 28 2005)
Going beyond scapegoating (Jul 14 2005)
Sharon must face the people now (Jun 28 2005)
Essay: For a real Knesset debate (Jun 16 2005)
Corruption is a cancer (May 17 2005)
Professors of hate (May 5 2005)
The dangerous silence of modern Orthodoxy (Apr 20 2005)
Mr. Sharon goes to Crawford (Apr 7 2005)
How not to repeat Oslo’s mistake (Mar 29 2005)
The limits of ecumenical dialogue (Mar 15 2005)
Divided, not defeated (Feb 9 2005)

2004 Archive

Let’s rethink how we fight Jew-hatred (Oct 24 2004)
Extremism is the greatest threat (Aug 23 2004)
Don’t take the Diaspora for granted (Aug 17 2004)
Stop the Kassams (Aug 14 2004)
Israeli and Diaspora Jews are not equal partners (Jul 22 2004)
Yasser Arafat’s repeat performance (Jul 7 2004)
The UN - a home for the Jews? (Jun 30 2004)
Religious Zionism at the crossroads (Jun 21 2004)
Democracy or banana republic? (Jun 15 2004)
No ersatz unity government (Jun 1 2004)
Full circle in Berlin (May 10 2004)
…support it (Apr 19 2004)
Moscow revisited (Apr 7 2004)
Europe faces its present (Mar 1 2004)
Sharon should prove terror hasn’t won (Feb 17 2004)
The demonization of Israel and Anti-Semitism (Jan 30 2004)
Confront the evil (Jan 27 2004)

2003 Archive

The Right should stick with Sharon (Dec 29 2003)
Blame the chaos on Sharon (Dec 2 2003)
New deal from New Delhi (Nov 23 2003)
Post-Zionist rampage (Nov 18 2003)
Crossing all red lines (Oct 21 2003)
War of ideas (Oct 8 2003)
Jewish leadership fails again (Sep 20 2003)
Jews contra Israel (Sep 8 2003)
Misplaced aliya priorities (Aug 19 2003)
Evangelical Christians, our new allies (Aug 15 2003)
Response to David Kimche (Aug 12 2003)
An open letter to Edgar Bronfman (Aug 6 2003)
Poraz beats the anti-religious drum (Jul 31 2003)
Lose our children, lose our future (Jul 13 2003)
Miguel Moratinos and the European malaise (Jul 7 2003)
Place not your trust in princes (May 27 2003)
The road map and realism (Apr 30 2003)
Counting Israel’s blessings (Apr 15 2003)
Civilian casualties and ugly wars (Apr 1 2003)
Time to dissolve the United Nations? (Mar 25 2003)
Beware of a false dawn (Mar 16 2003)
Icons are also fallible (Mar 7 2003)
When Effi met Tommy: The real test of the NRP-Shinui relationship (Mar 5 2003)
The Belgians as true Europeans (Feb 20 2003)
New face to the Diaspora (Feb 15 2003)
A mandate and an opportunity (Feb 5 2003)
The doublespeak of the Left (Jan 29 2003)
Of corruption and treason (Jan 22 2003)
Avoiding a religious Kulturkampf (Jan 9 2003)

2002 Archive

The decline and fall of Labor Zionism (Dec 6 2002)
A Partnership - Not A Feud - To Be Fueled (Nov 22 2002)
No More Sham Unity Governments (Nov 13 2002)
Yossi Sarid’s Inciteful Remarks (Oct 15 2002)
Evil is Evil (Oct 4 2002)
An open letter to British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (Sep 12 2002)
We Must Stop Apologizing! (Jul 30 2002)
Jobs For the Good Ol’ Boys - and Girls (Jul 25 2002)
Prime Minister Sharon Must Say ‘Enough Is Enough’ (Jul 2 2002)
No Palestinian State, For Now (May 23 2002)
Desperately Seeking the Center (May 9 2002)
And Now The Home Front (Apr 2 2002)
Enough Talking (Mar 24 2002)
Wanted: The Firm Hand Of Leadership (Feb 25 2002)
Is Nusseibeh a Con Man? (Jan 24 2002)

2001 Archive

Disloyalty and Patriotism (Dec 30 2001)
Diaspora Is No Equal Partner (Nov 10 2001)
The Diaspora in Crisis (Oct 30 2001)
History Repeats Itself (Oct 7 2001)
In Mosley’s Footsteps (Jun 12 2001)
‘Zionism and McCarthy,’ Round 2 (Mar 25 2001)
The Struggle for Israel’s Soul (Mar 11 2001)
Calling out to Diaspora Jewry (Feb 18 2001)

Archive from 2000 and earlier

The Unbridgeable Gap (May 23 2000)
A Small Sacrifice For a Great Cause (Apr 10 2000)
Nothing Learned From Maccabi Bridge Disaster (Dec 8 1999)
Nazi War Criminals In Australia (Aug 24 1999)
Religious Zionism reaches the crossroads (Jun 26 1998)
Ugly Forces (May 12 1998)
A Questionable Future (Apr 9 1998)
A Twofold Tragedy (Sep 24 1997)
No Time to Lose (Jan 22 1996)
Seeds of Perversion (Dec 4 1995)
Moshe Sneh’s Contribution (Jun 8 1994)
Retreat Into Irrelevance (Apr 10 1994)
Action Aliya (Jun 6 1993)
Diaspora Death Threat (Apr 11 1993)
Disturbing Cartoon (Dec 9 1992)
Resurrect The Old NRP (Aug 24 1992)
Australia’s Record On War Criminals (Jun 10 1992)
Australia’s Special Investigations Unit (May 21 1992)
Chinese-Jewish Encounter (Apr 23 1992)
The End Of The ‘One People’ Myth? (Mar 12 1991)
Turning Point For Soviet Jewry (Dec 12 1989)
The Diaspora Raises Its Voice Insider Says Solidarity Conference Fills Leadership Vacuum (Apr 11 1989)
The Jews of Silence Are Finding Their Voice (Apr 4 1989)
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