October 7, 2023 was the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. In its aftermath, however, Jews were targeted not only in Israel. Almost immediately, a global surge in antisemitic incidents unfolded far beyond the Middle East. According…
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The Blogs: Israel’s recognition of Somaliland is a monumental move | Max Webb
On Friday, Israel became the first country to recognize Somaliland as an independent country since the unification of Somalia and Somaliland in the 1960s. This comes after several months of secret meetings between Israeli and Somaliland…
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The Blogs: How Iran Uses Parliamentary Diplomacy Quietly | Gaston Saidman
While Western attention is often focused on Iran’s nuclear negotiations, sanctions, and military maneuvers, Tehran is advancing on a less visible but increasingly relevant front: parliamentary diplomacy. Recent high-level meetings with the…
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The Blogs: Lies That Kill the Polish Alliance | Andrzej Pawluszek
Yad Vashem’s institutional narrative is systematically distorting Poland’s historical image, triggering a strategic crisis in Polish-Israeli relations. According to the 2024 HU-EF Barometer, this shift has led to a shocking reality: 54%…
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The Blogs: Italy finally arrests Hamas’s best friend in Rome | Bepi Pezzulli
For three decades, Mohammad Hannoun operated with the impunity of a man who understood that Italian bureaucracy moves slower than glacial drift. The Palestinian architect from Ramallah built an empire of sham charities in Genoa while posing…
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The Blogs: Peace in Our Time, Again: Washington Declares Peace While the Middle East Waits | Victor Satya
The Victory Speech That Declared Reality Obsolete
In October 2025, the President of the United States stood before the world and announced what every schoolchild, diplomat, and weary civilian in the Middle East apparently missed: the…Continue Reading
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The Blogs: For Truth’s Sake: Love Vance | Yochanan Schimmelpfennig
Monika Potts’s profile in The New Republic suggests that JD Vance does not operate with a single stable identity, but with a set of deployable masks. “Shapeshifter” is a harsh term, yet analytically useful: it points less to “changing…
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The Blogs: Why Did Palestinians Kill Jesus? | Ivan Bassov
Jesus Was Palestinian (and Other Seasonal Revelations)
It’s Christmas season again. Jesus was Palestinian, we are told—a slogan that appears on billboards, sometimes in the present tense as “Jesus is Palestinian,” but always demanding…
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The Blogs: Revisiting Israel’s ‘Little Point Four’ in Nepal Amid Somaliland Recognition | Krishna Paksha Thapa
Big news is coming out of the Horn of Africa! In a move that is making headlines around the world, Israel has become the first country to formally recognize Somaliland as an independent and sovereign state.
This is a massive turning point for…
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The Blogs: Rituals of Return: How Sacred Time Reweaves a Broken World 8th in the series | Ed Gaskin
After October 7th, many Israelis described the same sensation: time stopped behaving normally.
Days blurred into one another. Nights stretched without mercy. Weeks felt both endless and impossibly short. People lost track of what day it…
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