JPost Editorial

The Jerusalem Post's daily editorial brings readers our editorial staff's stance on the most important and interesting issues of the day in Israel and the Jewish world. The Jerusalem Post, founded as the Palestine Post by Gershon Agron in 1932, is Israel's best selling English newspaper and its most read website.

 AUSTRALIAN PRIME Minister Anthony Albanese inspects the damage at the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne, guided by Rabbi Moshe Khan, president of the Rabbinical Council of Victoria.

Now Australia has ousted Iran's envoy - will the country actually tackle antisemitism? - editorial

Hamas terrorists carrying clubs and firearms secure humanitarian aid trucks in the northern Gaza area of Jabaliya on June 25, 2025.

Media's Gaza reports should focus more on Hamas abuses than wider humanitarian picture - editorial

Then-Dutch foreign minister Caspar Veldkamp during a meeting in Beijing, China, May 22, 2025.

Dutch gov't should focus on domestic troubles before collapsing over Israel criticism - editorial


Our enemies are listening: Time to see if war rhetoric is just empty threats - editorial

Threats that are not carried out teach adversaries that they can wait us out.

Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike in Gaza City on August 8, 2025.

Time to come home: Immigration to Israel shows we will not bow to enemies - editorial

Our enemies want us to doubt our future. Each plane of new immigrants proves that our future is already here.

 Flying in as one of 12 Aliyah flights hosting up to 60 new Olim per dedicated group.

Israel needs an agenda for September's Palestine recognition, not a reaction - editorial

When friends move ahead with recognition, it reflects not only their domestic pressures but also their sense that Israel is not offering a plan others can rally around.

Israel and Palestine flags on geopolitical Map.

Israel cannot morally pass up the chance to free at least some of remaining hostages - editorial

We’ve all seen the photos and videos. Whether a cruel Hamas propaganda campaign or not, they hammered the message home that the time has run out.

An Israeli flag displaying photos of the remaining hostages was unfurled at Hostages Square on August 17, 2025, at 6:29 a.m.

All or nothing: Why Israel should stand firm, avoid phased hostage deals - editorial

Israel will no longer play Hamas’s game of drips and drabs. The demand is simple, moral, and unshakable: all of them, all at once. Nothing less.

A demonstrator with her face painted in the colors of the Israeli flag and red tears takes part in a protest demanding the immediate release of the hostages held by Hamas, and the end of the war, in Tel Aviv, Israel, August 16, 2025.

Hostage protests: Fighting each other is what Hamas wants - editorial

Even in all of this darkness, there is still the value of human dignity and holding space for those we disagree with; that is not a negotiable value to lose.

Police tackle protesters in Tel Aviv, Israel after families of hostages have called for a nationwide strike to demand the return of all hostages and an end to the war in Gaza, August 17, 2025.

Francesca Albanese needs to be fired. Hamas are terrorists not a 'political force' - editorial

When a UN official tells the world to see Hamas primarily as a political service provider, the signal to would-be spoilers everywhere is unmistakable: wage war from behind civilians.

 UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese gives a press conference at the UN City in Copenhagen, Denmark February 5, 2025.

Why can't Hamas's crimes be in the spotlight without Israel also being condemned? - editorial

Israel must keep fighting, on the ground and in the realm of truth, to ensure that lies do not once again prepare the way for the next massacre of Jews.

 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends a press conference in Berlin, May 14, 2025; illustrative.

With Israel under siege, gov't leaders must prioritize national unity over politics - editorial

Differences of opinion are inevitable; what’s not acceptable is airing them in ways that erode deterrence, morale, and the perception of competence. 

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu sits among his ministers in the Knesset plenum. As long as the executive dominates the Knesset unchecked, the chamber will remain what it too often is: performative, loud, and largely hollow, says the writer.

Human rights orgs. should demand Al Jazeera stop hiring terrorists, not condemn Israel - editorial

To accuse Israel of deliberately targeting journalists and ignoring al-Sharif’s Hamas connection is being disingenuous – but not surprising.

Anas Al-Sharif with killed Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar.