Matthew M. Hausman is a trial attorney and writer. As an attorney he represents the interests of individuals, business entities and nonprofit organizations in state and federal courts. His work has appeared in numerous publications and venues, including Israpundit, Israel National News/Arutz Sheva, The American Thinker, Canada Free Press, Hamodia, Connecticut Lawyer, and The New English Review. He is active in Jewish communal affairs, and has served on the boards of several nonprofit organizations and committees.
Palestinian Arabs have no more historical entitlement to ancestral Jewish land than Germany had to the Sudetenland in 1938. The difference between appeasement then and now is that the west’s faux moral virtue today is an expression of its own antisemitism. Progressive nations like France, Canada, Ireland, Norway, and Australia fell over themselves recently to […]
Jewish evangelism is an affront to the memory of all who were martyred in the name of Christianity — from the days of Constantine to the Holocaust and beyond. Shortly after Mike Huckabee was approved as US Ambassador to Israel, a colleague asked me whether I thought his appointment would be a good thing considering […]
How is it that Jewish progressives often tolerate or rationalize the slogan “globalize the intifada,” particularly when it provides the soundtrack for violent demonstrations in which Jews are assaulted and their institutions vandalized and defiled? According to published reports, socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani received twenty percent of the Jewish vote in the recent New York […]
The radical-right has no influence on college campuses, where anti-Jewish violence is rampant; and it is Democrats who have failed to expel antisemitic, pro-Hamas elements from their party. During a recent speaking engagement, I opined that antisemitism is a far greater threat from the left than the right, but an audience member disagreed, arguing that […]
There are two possible reasons for the persistence of shrill, reflexive denunciations of Israel by progressive politicians: naiveté or malice. Israel initiated Operation Rising Lion because there was absolutely no doubt regarding Iran’s intention to attack the Jewish State with nuclear weapons. And the timing was critical because the Islamic Republic was dangerously close to […]
Because radicalized students and agitators have been able to target Jews with little or no pushback, it should come as no surprise that progressive activists have broadened their scope to harass and abuse others with differing ideologies or political affiliations. I was asked during a reception at a recent speaking engagement whether I was shocked […]
There is nothing impolitic about ostracizing countries, firms, products, and public figures who use their celebrity advocacy to empower enemies who seek to destroy Israel and exterminate her people. Let them all know what you think. As a professor of legal studies in the community college system, I periodically receive calls and inquiries regarding the […]
Since the beginning of the current war with Hamas, the Progressive Left has harnessed imagery and ‘linkage’ to foment Jew-hatred at levels not seen since the Holocaust. While walking to shul on a recent Shabbat morning, I passed a lawn sign that read, “Hate has no home here.” As anybody familiar with the culture wars […]
There is an inherent inconsistency between and Jewish values and radical progressivism, with its agenda of identity politics that falsely maligns Jews as oppressors, demonizes Israel, and elevates revisionist Palestinian Arab mythology over documented Jewish history. The 2024 presidential election is swiftly receding in the rearview and the inauguration is fast approaching, but provocative rhetoric […]
Progressives rationalize tenets that justify atrocities against Jews and destroying a sovereign democratic state, while they cheer Hamas for resisting an “occupation” that only exists in the minds of leftists, terrorists, and Palestinian Arab revisionists. After the horrific events of last year and the war that followed, Hamas was finally recognized as a genocidal terror […]
One year later, Israel finds herself fighting an existential war on seven fronts, while the wider world portrays her as an aggressor in need of taming. The world has learned nothing since Shemini Atzeret 5784 (October 7, 2023) and in fact seems to have regressed significantly. Even before Israel could retaliate for the brutal atrocities […]
Progressives claim to oppose all forms of bigotry, but there is nobody more bigoted or oppressive than leftist progressive antisemites. Negotiations with Hamas were exposed as hollow farce when six hostages were executed to prevent their rescue – in tunnels built with humanitarian aid provided by the west. Whereas the Biden administration persists in demanding […]
Israel’s global isolation combined with critical educational deficiencies outside the Orthodox world have created an opening for missionaries to lob spiritual missiles from within the Jewish state while Hamas and Hezbollah shoot ballistic missiles from without. Since the start of the war with Hamas on October 7th, evangelical Christians have been vocal in professing their […]
The misuse of language induces antisemitism, to paraphrase Socrates. The philosopher Socrates once wrote that “the misuse of language induces evil in the soul” and this maxim pretty much sums up the sanctification of Hamas and vilification of Israel since October 7th. There should be no question about the atrocities perpetrated by Hamas or its […]
Political expediency incites antisemitism on campus and beyond When recently discussing rising antisemitism with a liberal friend of mine, I was shocked when he stated that Jews should support Joe Biden because he and the Democrats stand against all forms of prejudice and are the only true friends of Israel in American government. I stared […]