Jeff Jacoby
@Jeff_Jacoby
I'm an op-ed columnist at The Boston Globe, a purveyor of refreshing conservative cheer in the midst of a dusty liberal wilderness.
Two statues in #MexicoCity celebrated Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Now, in an act of moral hygiene, the sculptures have been hauled away. Castro and Guevara were homicidal tyrants who should never have been celebrated. Here's my new @GlobeOpinion column. bostonglobe.com/2025/07/23/opi…
The scientific marvels of my lifetime — computers, the internet, mapping the genome, heart transplants — are wondrous. But for me, nothing can ever match the audacity of July 20, 1969, when Americans walked on the Moon. The memory still gives me chills. youtube.com/watch?v=hzApsI…
🚨The food crisis in #Gaza isn't caused by Israel. It's an intentional strategy of Hamas — and the West is playing right into it. As @jonathans_tobin explains, Hamas loots aid meant for civilians, then spreads a blood libel to blame the Jews. Must-read: jns.org/hamass-strateg…
Number of meals distributed safely and directly today: ➡️ 443,520 at our Saudi location ➡️ 1,663,200 at our Khan Younis location That's over 2.1 million meals delivered to people of Gaza who are in urgent need. 91 million meals total and counting.
At this point it's a tossup whether @NEAtoday should be seen primarily as a hard-left teachers union or as a purveyor of antisemitism. Maybe those are now indistinguishable. The NEA's latest: Its handbook refers to the Holocaust without mentioning Jews. freebeacon.com/america/larges…
If I were a member of Congress in Massachusetts, I would quit my job before I’d embrace someone who was literally on CNN last week justifying the slaughter of Jewish civilians. This is an embarrassment to Democrats. We are unelectable nationally as long as we embrace Jihadism.
Mahmoud Khalil & I got to meet up in my office earlier today. I met with him in detention when he spent 104 days behind bars—targeted by Trump for speaking out against Netanyahu’s vicious war in Gaza. Silencing dissent is un-American. We must defend the right to speak freely!
Just in time for #DíaDeLaRebeldíaNacional, a monument in Mexico City to Fidel Castro & Che Guevara — the monsters who imposed a bloody dictatorship on Cuba🇨🇺 — has been hauled away. Brava to @AlessandraRdlv for ordering the statues removed. My new column: bostonglobe.com/2025/07/23/opi…
tHiS wAsN't ReAl SoCiAlIsM!!
BREAKING: City-funded grocery store trial in Kansas City has already failed. Shelves are completely empty, food rotten, theft.
Appalling if true. If it was wrong for the federal government to subsidize NPR and PBS — and it was — it would be 1000X worse for Washington to own #TikTok (or any social media platform).
U.S. COMMERCE SECRETARY LUTNICK SAID HE BELIEVES THE TIKTOK SALE WILL GO THROUGH AND THAT THE U.S. WILL END UP PURCHASING THE PLATFORM.
This would be more persuasive if it cited even one example of Trump cracking down on right-wing #antisemitism. But the only Jew-hatred the WH opposes is the kind found on the left. Which tells me that antisemitism isn't Trump's target; it's his pretext. commentary.org/articles/tal-f…
In Massachusetts, hundreds of indigent criminal defendants — many charged with violent crimes — are being turned loose because the Legislature refuses to properly pay lawyers to represent them. What an ill-governed state this is. bostonglobe.com/2025/07/22/met…
For all the radical chic they inspired, despite the swooning of their admirers, Castro & Che Guevara were not liberators. They were killers. They brought #Cuba not freedom but tyranny: executions, economic ruin, and relentless repression. My new column: bostonglobe.com/2025/07/23/opi…
Even if NPR's reporting were perfectly objective, it wouldn't warrant a dime of public money. News organizations must make their own way in the marketplace of ideas, sustained by their audiences, advertisers, or benefactors — not the treasury. My latest: bostonglobe.com/2025/07/22/opi…
When you look past the headlines and Hamas’ lies, the truth is clear: Israel is not at war with the people of Gaza. Today, many civilians advance toward the soldiers, the only order given to our troops is: do not engage, do not shoot. Watch the encounter:
Good piece by @kelleratlarge on the near-impossible odds faced by @JoshKraftBoston in his bid to become mayor. Considering that Boston hasn't ousted an incumbent mayor since the 1940s, Kraft's campaign has always struck me as the longest of long shots. massterlist.com/2025/07/21/new…
Frederick Weller, my wife's father, died 9 years ago today. He was a humble custodian and handyman, as well as a volunteer firefighter who often risked his life to protect the lives and property of others. I wrote this appreciation when he passed away. jeffjacoby.com/19068/last-cal…
Trump's campaign to kill in-state tuition benefits for young undocumented immigrants is both illogical and cruel … and another reason why there is now such a strong backlash to the administration's anti-immigration policies. My new column has details: bostonglobe.com/2025/07/20/opi…
I’d like to be the first to wish NPR & PBS the very best of luck competing in the free market.
I'm getting lots of feedback on my #Arguable essay about the dumbing down — or outright elimination — of standardized tests. Compared to what kids 100 or 125 years ago were expected to learn, today's test-takers have it ridiculously easy. bostonglobe.com/2025/07/16/opi…
