Canadian Jewish physician Gabor Maté is widely admired for his work on trauma and addiction. But in recent years, he has become equally known for his political commentary—especially his outspoken anti-Zionist views. Maté often frames these…
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Gabor Maté Exploits Identity Politics Against Jews
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The Pope, the Bridge and the Left Unnamed
Compassionate rhetoric that avoids naming those who bleed The Pope’s address in Türkiye is easy enough to applaud on a first reading. The register is humane, conciliatory, impeccably behaved, morally scented but politically harmless. Yet the…
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How Israel Turned the Desert Into a Garden
How Israel Turned the Desert Into a Garden When Israel declared independence in 1948, more than 60% of its land was desert, dry, scorching, and seemingly unfit for life. The Negev Desert, stretching from Be’er Sheva to Eilat, was a vast expanse…
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Dawlat al-Tilawa: TV Show Becomes a Tool of Religious Exclusion
On November 14, the Egyptian program Dawlat al-Tilawa (Recitation State) was launched. It is a major religious competition aimed at discovering and nurturing young talents in Quranic recitation and tajweed. The program was launched through direct…
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Zurich Academics vs Germany’s pro-Israel stance? (2)
A conference in Zurich, Switzerland, on December 5, 2025, argues against German pro-Israel policies and the very term “reason of state”. It aims at one of the most pro-Israel countries in the West, despite the fact that recent developments…
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Rabbi Robin Williams, Z”TL
Though Robin Williams convincingly portrayed Jewish characters, though he utilized Yiddish expressions and accent more frequently and effectively than any Borscht Belt comedian, though he headlined Holocaust fundraisers pro bono, though he…
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Donald Trump’s Abrahamic Family Tree
When the media screams “racist,” I look at Trump’s family and laugh. One daughter married a Jew. Another married an Arab. And he embraces both families without hesitation. That alone blows a crater in the cartoon they keep selling: “the…
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When Both Sides Change: What Happens to the US–Israel Relationship Now?
Ben Sales is right that American support is eroding. We also have to face how Israel’s leadership crisis — and the fraying of American Jewish support — helps drive that shift. In his recent Times of Israel analysis, “Fewer and fewer…
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Netanyahu Tried to Erase His Own Trial — and Nearly Torched Israel’s Democracy
Israel has endured wars, terror, assassinations, and political turmoil — but nothing as destabilizing as what happened this week. In a move that detonated shockwaves through the nation’s legal and political foundations, Prime Minister…
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UNRWA’s Calculus: Potentially A Monumental Refugee Catastrophe
By the rivers of Babylon there we sat weeping when we remembered Zion. On the poplars in its midst we hung up our harps. For there our captors asked us for the words of a song; Our tormentors, for joy: “Sing for us a song…
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