The Other Colonial History We Ignore: Arab Conquest, Silent Slavery, and the Missing Narrative on Indigeneity In schools, documentaries, activism, and social movements, most discussions of colonialism focus on European empires—their expansion,…
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The Silence on Arab Colonialism
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The MOOPs take the Shomron
Embed from Getty Images On December 7, a date which Frank Roosevelt said would live in infamy, 50 MOOP members set out for an excursion to the Shomron. Remarkably, all of them, as well as the Shomron, survived intact, and without international…
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Israel, Kurdistan: Act Before the Map Sets
Turkey digs in with jihadists as Israel hesitates in the north For years, Israel has treated Turkey and the Kurds as background to its concerns in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. That view is now out of date. Turkey has entrenched itself in northern…
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About Meir Kahane, Kahanism, Ben Gvir and Bibi-ism
A few weeks ago, I had dinner in the NYC area with a rabbi and a young rabbinic intern. We were talking about contemporary Israel and how it is run now by Kahanists (followers of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane) and the young rabbi-in-training asked…
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The Clientele
Reclaiming “Palestine” from UNRWA’s Impostors For decades, the world has been sold a myth: that there exists an ancient people called “Palestinians” whose homeland was somehow stolen by the Jews. Everyone knows this isn’t true —…
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Iran’s Secret Brotherhood Cash Highway
Hamas and Hezbollah pretend to be sectarian opposites, but the truth is sharper: the Muslim Brotherhood decided that destroying Israel mattered more than Sunni purity, and Iran seized the opening—pouring money, weapons, covert networks, cyber…
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Tragedy to Resilience to Remembrance to Victory: Israel Reaches Out
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: Sunday, December 7, 2025, marked the conclusion of the Ambassador Summit, a weeklong conference in Jerusalem, bringing together more than 1,000 pastors, ministry leaders, Christian educators, bloggers, and social media…
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WindowDressing: On the Swift, Strange Rise of Bad Ideas
My question—and I understand its absurdism—touches the depths of inanity among people for whom the dross of popular culture approaches the sacred, an odd sort of sanctity that becomes, for a moment until the next fad arrives, an inviolable…
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“There Has Never Been a State Named ‘Palestine'”
Over the past two weeks, I have participated in numerous podcast episodes on Arabic-language YouTube channels. The discussions focused almost exclusively on the Arab-Israeli conflict. There, I continued to shed light on the most sensitive and…
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WTF is a Keffiyeh
It must have been twenty years ago now when I first saw a young person in the West wearing a keffiyeh, the traditional headdress associated with Palestinian culture. As a Palestinian human rights activist, I thought to myself, “Does this young…
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