Barry Shaw

Barry Shaw is the International Public Diplomacy Director of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.

His books, available on Amazon, include:

South Africa wrongly sees world in black and white

By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — Yaakov Amidror, the former national security adviser, told an Israel Project conference that “relations with South Africa are not that important to Israel so, if they want their ambassador back, they are most welcome.” This undiplomatic statement was made after South Africa pulled its ambassador out of Israel following […]

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Barry Shaw, International, Middle East

Israel and bike racing: A new love affair

By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — The second greatest bike race was replete with significance in 2018. One man deservedly garnered praise for bringing the Giro d’Italia, a cycling race with a 110-year history, to Israel, the first time it has started outside of Europe. Sylvan Adams is an Israeli-Canadian real estate investor with a

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Barry Shaw, International, Middle East, Sports & Competitions

Labour party tries to separate Jews from Zionism

By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — Britain’s Jewish leadership met with Jeremy Corbyn, the man who is leading a Labour Party that is drenched in unbridled anti-Semitism, on April 24th and came away “disappointed,” calling the two hour meeting a “missed opportunity.” Their requests were straightforward. They wanted a fixed timetable to deal with the numerous anti-Semitism cases within the

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Barry Shaw, International, Middle East

Jerusalem liberated from the Turks a century ago

By Barry Shaw On December 11, 1917, General Edmund Allenby’s forces officially liberated Jerusalem. Actually, a Jerusalem delegation, led by the mayor, surrendered the city to a pair of British army cooks on December 8. Thus began a comical farce of who received the surrender of the Holy City. The Turkish army and their German

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Barry Shaw, International, Jewish History, Middle East

Palestinian flag over Jewish day camp is insanity

By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel —  When a Jewish day camp in America flies the Palestinian flag as Palestinians are killing Israelis you know that PC in the US has gone off the cliff. This is what happened at Camp Solomon Schechter. They claim to be “unabashed pro-Israel.” They should call themselves “embarrassing terror supporters.”

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Barry Shaw, Middle East, USA

Soccer used as tool for political hatred

By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — Here is the text of a formal complaint to FIFA Disciplinary Committee about the exploitation of football for the promotion and glorification of terrorism by FIFA Delegate, Jibril Rajoub, the Palestinian Football Association and its officials. The Israel Institute for Strategic Studies researches and exposes important regional and global

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Barry Shaw, Middle East, Sports & Competitions

World ignores Arabs killing Arabs

By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — A frustrated Israeli Defense Minister, Avigdor Liberman, criticized the United Nations for ignoring the issue of Palestinians killing Palestinians. In a phone conversation with Nikolay Mladenov, the UN Middle East envoy, he complained that while the UN regularly condemns “justified Israeli actions against terrorism” they have nothing to say about

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Barry Shaw, Middle East