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The Selective Moral Compass: Why Global Tragedies Are Ignored Until They Can Be Blamed on Jews It is a mind blowing reality of modern journalism that...
Choosing Presence Over Missing Out Fear of missing out is a quiet force that grows louder in the spaces between where you are and where you wish you...
If the situation were not so serious, it would be very funny. Having advocated for Israel for more than a decade, I became very familiar with the...
History is filled with mighty empires that once seemed invincible. The ancient Egyptians built monuments that still inspire awe. The Assyrians...
Standing Strong for Israel If you were to look at my screen time statistics, you would probably think I am pathetic. More than four hours a day...
Justice Speaks Louder Than Slander A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog titled Echoes of Loyalty: When Nuance Becomes Betrayal. In it, I shared something...
Imagine being a visibly Jewish person in the Netherlands today. Or imagine being an Israeli living, working, or traveling here. One day you need...
Why Israel Is Being Unfairly Singled Out Around the world, consumers are encouraged to make ethical choices about the products they buy. Boycotts have...
Values, Culture, and the Search for Peace Most of us grow up with a basic understanding of right and wrong. We are taught to tell the truth, not to...
The Girl With The Big Blue Eyes Every fairytale starts with the words there once was. So in this case there once was a girl with the big blue eyes....
When my daughter looked at me with eyes full of worry and asked me to remove my Star of David necklace, my heart broke—not because of her request,...
After the Gaza flotilla was intercepted on the open sea yet again, combined with the careless and provocative actions of Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, I...
The Hubris of the Unheard: How Bureaucratic Arrogance is Costing Israel Is it my trauma speaking, or is history preparing itself to repeat once again?...
Truth Loses When Propaganda Wins There was a time when defending Israel in the international arena was built on documentation, evidence, and...
From Israel with Love: The High Price of Deceptive Peace For decades, the sirens have dictated the rhythm of life in Southern Israel. For the families...
An Open Letter to the Members of the Knesset and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Distinguished Members of the Knesset, Prime Minister Benjamin...
The Betrayal of Jerusalem: Washington’s Toxic Ego For decades, Israel has played the part of the loyal, reliable frontline defender of Western...
Confessions of an Alien Who’s Officially Done With Earth (But Still Somehow Ends Up Defending Israel) A view from outside a planet that lost its...
A Historical Deception Endures As an individual deeply invested in Israel’s story, a student of history, and someone who has personally experienced...
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...
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