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.


 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

 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).

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

 A man walking with an Israeli and an American flag

Do the Jews control the US government? - opinion


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.