Walter E. Block

Walter E. Block, Ph.D. is Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair and Professor of Economics at Loyola University New Orleans and author of https://walterblock.substack.com/. His main claim to fame is that he once played chess with Friedrich Hayek, and shook hands with Ludwig von Mises.


 An illustrative image of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and former national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.

Misguided sanctions: Nations punish Smotrich, Ben-Gvir for protecting Israelis - opinion

 Allied forces are seen bombing the German city of Dresden during World War II.

False equivalency of Gaza and Dresden: One was revenge, the other self-defense - opinion

 Left to right: Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion, with F. D. Roosevelt Jr. and John F. Kennedy during their visit to Israel, October 8, 1951

‘Israel killed JFK’: Another antisemitic conspiracy levelled against the Jews - opinion


Palestinians should be resettled in Arab countries that expelled their Jews - opinion

Israel integrated Jews forced to join them from those Arab counties. If justice is to be done, those Palestinians should be relocated out of their refugee camps and resettled in those same countries.

 A flight from Aden, Yemen, to the newly formed State of Israel during Operation Magic Carpet, which brought thousands of Yemeni Jews to the Holy Land (1949-1950).

Do the Jews control the US government? - opinion

Opined Minister Louis Farrakhan: “The Jews have control over those agencies of government. When you want something in this world, the Jew holds the door.”

 A man walking with an Israeli and an American flag

Do you support Hamas? Better think again - opinion

Note that this open letter is addressed to Hamas supporters, not members of that terrorist organization. We have in mind the students, particularly Jewish students, who protest on behalf of Hamas.

 Protesters from the national group Jewish Voice for Peace are arrested for blocking traffic on I-76 during a call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war during rallies across the US in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, December 14, 2023.

New York Times writer thinks Israel should not react to Hamas - opinion

If we extrapolate from this “insight” of New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof’s, the holdup man and his victim, when the latter retaliates, are moral equals.

 Nicholas Kristof at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Anti-Zionist tautology: Israel is evil or there is no good - opinion

Nicholas Kristof follows this line of thought in his New York Times column of June 2.

PRO-PALESTINIAN demonstrators attend a protest in London last weekend.

The true nature of the BDS movement

BDS is not primarily a pro-Palestinian movement, but an anti-Jewish one. Denying one group, and one group only, the right to homestead land is unjust.

AN ANTI-ISRAEL protester demonstrates against the Eurovision Song Contest.