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Sabine SterkThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
When Truth Becomes Optional: Israel, October 7, and the Collapse of Moral Clarity Something has shifted in the world, and not in a subtle way. It is...
Trust is one of the most valuable things a country can possess. It takes years to build, generations to protect, and only seconds to destroy. That...
From Hating Israel to Loving Israel in One Single Day Not for everyone. Some people are so deeply poisoned by generational antisemitism that facts no...
The global landscape of Israel advocacy has shifted in a troubling direction. Increasingly, we witness a phenomenon where support from abroad comes...
For most of my life, people have known me as one of the most relentless pro Israel advocates around. For more than twelve years, day and night,...
The narrative that Israel is a mere beneficiary of American charity is a tired myth that ignores the reality of modern geopolitics. While activists...
The Recurring Echo of History: Understanding Israel’s Defensive Reality The history of the modern State of Israel is often viewed through a lens of...
For Israelis, success on the world stage has increasingly become a trigger for hostility rather than celebration. Whether in technology, medicine,...
The Loneliness of Speaking Up There is a sentence that has followed me through life like a shadow. A lyric written by the late Herman Brood that...
There is a persistent temptation to measure conflicts in missiles, troop movements, and territorial gains. But in the long struggle surrounding Israel...
Near Sa Nur, a funeral for a “Palestinian” family was reportedly coordinated in advance with the IDF. After the burial, a group of Israeli...
Public discussion about the Middle East is often reduced to a false choice. People are told they must either support Israel or support civilians in...
Israel’s Wars Never Truly Ended No other country in the modern world has lived under the constant shadow of war, terrorism, invasion, rocket fire,...
Israel Advocacy Must Rise Above Ego and Division How do you avoid unintentionally spreading Israel hatred? That question is more urgent now than ever....
When Lies Rewrite History How is it possible that the entire world repeats a lie so confidently that it has become accepted as truth? How can people,...
There is something profoundly wrong when a nation gathers to remember the victims of World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust, and that moment is...
The Erosion of Academia: When Education Becomes Indoctrination The hallowed halls of our universities were once designed to be the ultimate...
What I Noticed in Israel: Children Are Sacred, but That Comes With a Cost During my time observing life in Israel, one thing became impossible to...
No, I do not want to think it, let alone say it. But more and more, I think Israelis are committing national suicide. Of course, I am far away and see...
Israel Carries the Real Cost Recent developments in the Iran war have once again exposed a reality many outside the region prefer to ignore. When...
Back to the Future. Did Anything Become Better? Today it is April 30th, 1978. My father opened the tent after a good night’s sleep somewhere in the...
Recognition Fuels Israel Advocacy July 2016 marked a moment I will never forget. It was nearly two years after I had started my Pro Israel advocacy...
Truth Over Politeness on Israel How long can we stay politically correct when it comes to Israel’s existence? I ask this seriously. I grew up in the...
Exposing the Myth of Jewish Control The idea that Jews are rich, greedy, or secretly controlling the world is one of the oldest and most dangerous...
The exit of Lenny Kuhr, a national icon and winner of the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest, with the song “de Troubadour,” should be the final siren...
In the Netherlands, where I live, public discussion about Israel often feels unusually certain. People speak with confidence about a conflict far...
There is something deeply unsettling about the casual way reality gets rewritten in the modern world, especially when it comes to Israel. You land at...
Blind Spots and Bias Against Israel In the Netherlands, something striking has taken hold in public discourse. A country far removed from the...
Where do we get our facts about Israel? For most people, the first answer is simple: newspapers. That assumption feels logical, even safe. Yet the...
The Global Narrative on Israel Is Deeply Misguided Around the world, anti Israel protests have become a kind of ritual. Crowds gather, slogans are...
Imagine being a young woman in Israel who looks completely ordinary. Your hair is a bit thin, your teeth are not perfectly straight, maybe your nose...
There is something about Israel that refuses to be explained in rational terms. You can analyze politics, history, conflict, economics. You can debate...
Jews, be careful of betrayal within. There, I said it. It is a very harsh sentence, but I fear I have touched on the core reason why Israel advocacy...
Why Peace Keeps Failing Peace between Israelis and their neighbors has been attempted so many times that the pattern itself has become impossible to...
On April 11, 1961, the world was forced to sit still and listen. The trial of Adolf Eichmann began in Jerusalem, and with it came something that had...
Israel Stands While the World Looks Away After the so-called deal of the century was revealed years ago, there was a brief moment when hope felt real...
Take Back the Narrative: Reclaiming Identity, History, and Even the Watermelon There is a growing realization among many supporters of Israel that the...
Honesty is one of those virtues we love to claim for ourselves. It is clean, noble, uncomplicated. It means telling the truth, being transparent, and...
Ceasefire Betrayal Leaves Israel Exposed There are moments in history when hesitation is not just a mistake but a danger. This is one of them. Many...
The debate is often framed as complex, nuanced, and open to interpretation, but in reality the truth is far more direct. Antizionism and antisemitism...
I grew up in the Netherlands in a secular family, shaped more by observation than belief. We had a deep respect for Jewish culture and religion, and,...
Truth Beyond the Noise I am a practical human being. I do not approach conflict through slogans, nor do I find comfort in emotional bandwagons. I look...
The Lie the World Wants to Believe The guns may be quieter in Gaza, but something far uglier has only grown louder. Across social media, in protests,...
Enough Lies Israel Will Not Apologize Ask the average person why there is war in the Middle East and you will hear the same reflex answer. Israel is...
In today’s media landscape, a troubling pattern has emerged. Whenever a journalist is harmed in a war zone involving Israel, the immediate global...
I have said it before and I will say it again. Living in the Netherlands today, the moment the word Israel is mentioned, something snaps in people. It...
An Open Letter to the Israeli Immigration Office I am writing to you from the Netherlands as a woman who has carried Israel in her heart for most of...
Survival of the Fittest: The Cultural Divide the West Still Pretends Doesn’t Exist There is a truth Western societies have spent decades avoiding...
Israel Cannot Win the Narrative War, No Matter What It Does There is a pattern so obvious that it should no longer be ignored, yet it continues to...
How Artificial Intelligence Is Eroding Our Moral Compass and Intelligence For more than twelve years, I have written daily about Israel and the...
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