1.) NGO Monitor: Documenting the Antisemitic Organizational Culture of Doctors without Borders
The evidence presented in this report reveals a widespread organizational culture dominated by antisemitism that produced a highly disproportionate obsession with and singling-out of Israel, as well as direct and repeated support for Hamas. These aspects are reflected in the Gaza “genocide” campaign; in the demonstrably false “testimonies” of MSF staffers and volunteers, such as the case of Al Ahli hospital; in the systematic erasure of Israeli victims and hostages; and many other examples.
2) At the Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, historian Jeffrey Herf addresses “From Historian to Polemicist: What Went Wrong with Omer Bartov“.
Within weeks of the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, the historian Omer Bartov joined several other scholars of the Holocaust to warn that Israel was about to engage in genocide in Gaza. In subsequent months, in articles in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and The Guardian; in TV and radio interviews; and at academic conferences and public talks, he concluded that Israel was indeed committing genocide in Gaza.
3) At the Alma Center, Yaakov Lapin reports on “The Iranian Arena (June 2026) – Status of Events“.
The past thirty days (late May through late June 2026) have marked significant developments in the Iranian arena, ranging from the signing of fragile interim agreements to continued kinetic exchanges of blows and internal economic and governance crises in Iran.
According to International Monetary Fund data, Iran’s GDP is projected to contract by 6.1% this year – the sharpest contraction since the 1980s – alongside runaway inflation approaching 70%. On the political level, US Vice President JD Vance claimed that the United States had completed its ‘central mission’ of ensuring the denial of nuclear capability to Iran.
This report analyzes the recent developments across the four key strategic axes of the Islamic Republic:
4) At the Jewish Chronicle, Mark Zlochin reports on “Why the Lancet study suggesting a far higher Gaza death toll is deeply flawed“.
A few months ago, The Lancet Global Health published a study by Professor Michael Spagat et al. claiming that the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health had undercounted violent deaths by roughly 35 per cent, and very quickly the finding took on a life of its own. Journalists and advocacy groups cited it as independent confirmation that the official death toll significantly underestimated reality, and some even mistakenly assumed the same 35 per cent correction factor also applied to the most current official fatalities figures.
However, as Professor Sergio DellaPergola and I showed in a formal response recently published in the same journal, the survey suffers from major methodological flaws that undermine its headline claim.
