Category: Other

Hamas, antisemitism, and the selective sympathy for Jews and Kurds

If Hamas Disarmed Tomorrow, Antisemitism Would Just Get a New Costume, And a Vegan Menu. Picture the dawn. Hamas’s leader, whoever hell he is, emerges from his latest hole,…

There’s this common claim among some pro-Palestinian spaces that Jesus was a Palestinian. This is historically false. There was no Palestinian identity or country in Jesus’s lifetime.

Let’s look at the historical record.

Around 1000…

Israel’s likely backing of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is not ideological sympathy—it is a strategic necessity. That the SDF is leftist, PKK-adjacent, and far removed from Iraq’s pro-Western Kurdish elites has not…

Criticism of government policy is a necessary function of democracy. However, regarding Israel, political critique has morphed into a demonization that defies physics, mathematics, and legal reality. This is not political discourse; it is a…

I remember a conversation I had years ago with a prominent Jewish communal leader. This was in 2019, before anti-Zionism and antisemitism were openly normalized, when liberal Jews were still debating whether to support the Women’s March.

I…

Once I was lost, then I was found, then I got lost again.

Had a bad day,  got in my own way- thought it would never end.

Funny thing, when you lose yourself …  and leave so many friends

Illusions shatter- reality matters and broken hearts…

Imagine the pain, betrayal, and anger you would feel if those who were closest to you turned against you, battered you, and then sold you to slavers who took you far from home and placed you into years of servitude. Decades later, you…

Yesterday, a short real-estate news item caught my eye: members of the Jewish Syrian community in New York had purchased two apartment buildings in Jerusalem. For some readers, this was just another headline in a long list of overseas Jewish…

I recently visited the Israeli community of Gevaot. As you enter, a warm breeze hits your face and the quiet settles in. Modest homes line the paths, neighbors passing one another without hurry. Only two places break the calm: a school and a…

Europe in 2025 is no longer the confident, self-assured continent it once was. What appears on the surface as a wave of pro-Palestinian demonstrations or student protests is, in reality, the symptom of a far deeper process: a civilizational…