About Jeff Jacoby

Jeff Jacoby is a columnist for the Boston Globe.


Articles by Jeff Jacoby

WMD Headlines Miss the Real Story (October 25, 2003)
What President Bush asserted in his State of the Union address -- "The dictator of Iraq is not disarming; to the contrary, he is deceiving" -- has now been confirmed.

Palestinian Authority: A Network of Murderers Masquerading As Government (October 20, 2003)
There is only one rational response to the murder of Americans last week: the destruction of the Palestinian Authority, a network of killers posing as a government.

The War On America Did Not Begin On Sept 11th (September 20, 2003)
The War we are in didn't begin on Sept. 11, 2001. It began 22 years earlier.

Road Map to More Terror in the Middle East (August 7, 2003)
It is the Oslo farce all over again: Israel weakens itself through real concessions on the ground, while the Palestinians pocket the concessions and then break their promise of peace.

Supreme Court Defends Racism in America's Universities (July 5, 2003)
American universities will never perform right until the day they stop judging people by the color of their skin.

Old Europe Grows Older (June 11, 2003)
What is the lesson the Europeans -- despite their experience with Nazism, fascism, and communism -- refuse to learn?

Arafat on Top? (June 4, 2003)
How many Western journalists or politicians or diplomats could care less whether or not Palestinian society becomes a free country?

Castro's Cult of Sycophants (May 18, 2003)
Celebrities, journalists, and other illuminati have long gushed with admiration for Cuba's communist despot.

The Caribbean's Saddam Hussein Still Rules Cuba (April 13, 2003)
The only one way to reform a totalitarian despot like Cuba's Fidel Castro is to topple his regime.

New Leadership for Palestine and Iraq: A Double Standard? (April 6, 2003)
As the Afghans deserved better than Mullah Omar and his Taliban thugs, as Iraqis deserve better than Saddam and the Baathist SS, so the Palestinians deserve better than Arafat and Abbas.

The Moral Gulf Between America and Saddam's Iraq (April 1, 2003)
We fight in a just cause, and Iraqis generations hence will celebrate the coming victory.

Al Sharpton: The Democrat's David Duke (February 26, 2003)
Sharpton is a vicious liar and a dangerous bigot. As a matter of moral hygiene, his party and the press should be able to say so, too.

The Million Fool March to Prop Up Dictator Saddam Hussein (February 22, 2003)
Across Europe and the United States, 2 million or more protesters took to the streets to denounce the Bush administration's plans to disarm Saddam Hussein. Nowhere to be seen were signs proclaiming "Against war AND against Saddam" or "Saddam must disarm" or "Justice for Saddam's victims." There were no banners proclaiming Saddam the new Hitler. None of the speakers were Iraqi Kurds or Shi'ites or dissidents. None were survivors of Saddam's torture chambers or poison gas attacks.

Dealing with Terror Regimes (February 19, 2003)
Our mission now is to kill the Islamist cause. We can do so only by killing the tyrannies that sustain it.

The United Nations Against Individual Rights (February 9, 2003)
If the UN 'Human Rights' Commission were really concerned with human rights, the accession of a ghoulish regime like Libya's to the chair would indeed be a scandal. But the commission's true purposes are to give Third World bullies a venue for grandstanding, to harangue Western democracies, to ensure that the world's cruelest rulers escape condemnation, and, of course, to bash Israel. There's nothing in that agenda to disqualify Libya. Or, for that matter, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, China, Syria, Sudan, or Zimbabwe -- each a notorious human-rights violator and each a commission member in good standing.

The "Diversity" Fig Leaf (January 19, 2003)
Americans have internalized Martin Luther King's foremost teaching -- that human beings should be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. In a nationwide poll reported last year in The Washington Post, respondents overwhelmingly opposed racial preferences. That view cut across all groups: 86 percent of blacks, 94 percent of whites, 88 percent of Hispanics, and 84 percent of Asians agreed that college admissions (as well as hiring and contracting) "should be based strictly on merit and qualifications other than race or ethnicity."

Israeli Restraint Empowers Terrorists (January 17, 2003)
It is no wonder that so many Palestinians believe that terror and violence will eventually lead to the end of Israel and the creation of a 23d Arab state. The wonder is that Israel doesn't use its tremendous military power to disabuse them of that belief once and for all.

Death Penalty by the Numbers (December 29, 2002)
Inasmuch as black murderers commit about half of all homicides in the United States, the numbers make it clear that the death penalty is imposed with disproportionate severity not on blacks, but on whites.

Hope for Iran (December 12, 2002)
It has been nearly a year since Bush labeled Iran a member of the "axis of evil," denouncing the "unelected few" -- the ruling mullahs in Tehran -- who "repress the Iranian people's hope for freedom." His words were enthusiastically welcomed inside Iran, where the regime is widely despised and America widely admired. When the Voice of America broadcast a translation of the speech into Iran, it was deluged with hundreds of appreciative phone calls, faxes, and e-mails. But there was no such enthusiasm in Colin Powell's State Department, which prefers a soft policy of diplomatic engagement with Iran.

Campus Diversity Fraud (December 6, 2002)
What passes for diversity on campus and wherever else the left holds sway is an impoverished fraud.

Iraqi Dictator Saddam Hussein's Shop of Horrors (November 15, 2002)
The Arab world is replete with dictators, many of them ruthless. But for for sheer unbridled cruelty, none of them can touch Saddam. And for hellish and sadistic brutality, no other Arab state -- perhaps no other state in the world -- can compare with what Saddam has created in Iraq.

If State Government Doesn't Do It, Who Will? (November 3, 2002)
Claiming that there would be no schools if the government didn't build them is as silly as claiming that there would be no homes or churches if the government didn't build them. We don't depend on the government for the food we eat, the cars we drive, or the clothes we wear. We would laugh at anyone who insisted that only the state can provide us with access to the Internet, consumer credit, daily newspapers, or dental hygiene. It is equally laughable to insist that the state is indispensable to nursing-home care for the elderly or education for the young.

Castigating America: How Jimmy Carter Won the Noble "Peace" Prize (October 21, 2002)
Lobbying foreign governments to subvert the diplomatic efforts of a sitting president is something ex-presidents simply do not do. But Carter not only did it, he (later) even boasted of it.

Guns for Rapists, But Not For Potential Victims (October 6, 2002)
Under Massachusetts law, ordinary citizens have no guaranteed right to carry a firearm for self-protection.

Bilingual Education's Voluminous Failure (October 5, 2002)
If I were Hispanic, I would be ashamed that so many American institutions take it for granted that people like me can't understand English.

Nonjudgmentalism versus Objectivity in Journalism (September 18, 2002)
Nonjudgmentalism does not reflect journalistic objectivity. It reflects a broken moral compass, and it leads to a debased judgmentalism of its own.

America's "Eternal Friendship" With Terrorist Supplier Saudi Arabia (September 14, 2002)
What is called for now is some constructive instability -- a board-clearing upheaval that will dislodge the dictators and fanatics who encourage terrorism and menace world peace. What Saudi Arabia needs most is not the full ranch treatment, but a change of regime.

Taiwan is not China (September 4, 2002)
Taiwan has become something much better than China: an outpost of liberty, a vibrant democracy, a bulwark of civilization, a reliable friend. It deserves our unequivocal support.

Put Amtrak Out of Business (July 11, 2002)
There has to be a government office in Brasilia, the capital, whose members met at least once a week to figure out ways to deliberately make the country poorer.

The Prerequisite to Peace (July 9, 2002)
The dismal truth is that among the Palestinians, it is the many who nurse hatred and who support the slaughter of civilians.

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