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The belief that Israel is built on stolen Arab land has become orthodoxy among the anti-Israel movement. It is dangerous fiction in need of correction.
I am talking about confident, courageous, burly groups of Jews who can put these "pro-Palestinian" mobsters in their place.
Medieval usury laws have a long-reaching antisemitic legacy.
A secular Jew in California and an ultra-Orthodox Jew in Israel (and everyone in between) can all find their shared destiny in Jewish ethical growth.
Director Jonathan Glazer's disturbing speech at last Sunday's Oscars prompts a deep-dive into why some Jewish folks hate themselves and other Jews.
It is crucial to understand Israeli voters if you truly want to understand Israeli politics.
Double standards galore, the "poor Palestinians" and their supporters are afforded luxuries from which Israel, Israelis, and Jews are forbidden.
I could work to help sway opinion in my home country if only there was a shred of effective Israeli PR there and elsewhere abroad.
A “culture of grace” can transform people’s hearts and, in the process, renew not just Israel but also the Jewish People.
Increasingly, people cannot seem to tell the difference between military operations and genocide, especially when it comes to Israel.
One hundred years ago, Ahad Ha’am described an import/export model of Jewish culture, and I still believe in it.
Hamas snipers using American equipment, "BBC Verify" just verifies its disturbing biases, a new documentary about the Palestinian "Mandela" and more.
“Israel did not grow strong because it had an American alliance. It acquired an American alliance because it had grown strong.”
“Art should be the opposite of social media culture ... an antidote to fast food activism.”
"The Nazis sought to hide the evidence of their genocide. Hamas posted it on Facebook and Telegram."
“No Jews, No News” is a popular aphorism summarizing the global preoccupation with this unique Middle Eastern indigenous ethnic group.
"It is not a war about territory or economics. It is not about who governs. It is about the transcendent rather than the immediate."
One had no great desire to be a soldier, and the other was almost killed by railroad workers in Africa before arriving to the Middle East. Plus an honorary mention.
As novelist Dara Horn put it: People love dead Jews.
What the best practices of "positioning" can teach us about how each group is communicating to a skeptical, media-blitzed world.