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When it comes to Jews, longtime social work ethics have become voided as an integral part of our field.
We’re not asking for your loyalty, just your ability to mind your own business.
Far too many Palestinians and their "supporters" choose terror over peace and coexistence, propaganda over truth, and endless sympathy without any accountability.
Israel can’t both rescue the hostages and defeat Hamas. It’s a devastating moral dilemma, but reality always beats wishful thinking.
How has Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu come to be seen as the embodiment of evil? Is he really the monster that the media often portrays him to be?
The UK wants to recognize a Palestinian state based on bizarre logic. Hamas is thrilled, of course — but what happens when we apply the British prime minister’s own reasoning to the Palestinians?
We have to stop sounding the alarm about antisemitism as a political strategy to get our neighbors to care. It’s not working, and it may even be hurting us.
Hamas isn't a government. It's not a liberation or "resistance" movement. It's a gang, a mafia. Maybe that reframing will wake up more people to the reality in Gaza and other parts of the Middle East…
Feeding the enemy, trading hostages for terrorists, and extending the war under the banner of morality are not acts of ethics; they are acts of madness.
Feeding people in Gaza isn’t simply a humanitarian issue. It’s a power struggle, and the United Nations is not impartial. They are aiding and abetting Hamas.
When Jews turn on Jews, everyone loses. And yet we keep making the same ignorant mistake.
External parties can dream about "Palestine" until they go blue in the face, but the reality is that Palestinians have zero capability to self-govern, no less zero desire to live in peace with Israel…
In 2018, I visited two refugee camps in Lebanon, a place where Israelis are banned and Jews aren't welcome. What I saw shattered what I thought I understood about humanitarian aid.
No, Israel doesn't owe Gazans breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Would you seriously feed your neighbor who's trying to set your house ablaze and viciously murder your family?
Moving here taught me to thrive with thorns.
Here’s the uncomfortable truth: Most of this caring is performative. It’s cheap outrage, a way to feel righteous and stroke the ego without paying a price. Meanwhile, people in Israel and Gaza suffer…
“An army marches on its stomach.”
The only real way to understand this saga is to understand its perpetual cause-and-effect nature.
"Anti-Zionists" cheer for the side whose game plan for victory is sacrificing as many of their own civilians as possible.
Now they found their man — an Israeli! a Jew! — to give Times readers exactly what they want to hear: that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, no matter how remotely untrue and unverified this is.