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Jul 24, 2025, 4:29 PM

Anti-Zionism as a Morality Play

Anti-Zionism casts itself as a cause of justice. In this post-October 7 world it has shed politics, ideology, and context until all that remains is the performance of virtue and the targeting of Jews. This is the key insight Eva...

Jul 13, 2025, 12:18 PM

The ‘good Jew’ trap

When anti-Zionists define the “good Jew” as one who abandons Jewish peoplehood, they cast those affirming our nationhood as contaminated outsiders. The ticket to acceptance is self-erasure. We’ve seen this before, and it didn’t end well. What is a good...

Jun 26, 2025, 7:16 PM

The JCPOA Didn’t Prevent War. It Funded This One.

Flawed from the start, the 2015 Iran nuclear deal gave Tehran the funds to arm its proxies thus enabling the October 7 war that eventually reached the skies over Tehran. The ceasefire that came into effect Tuesday morning may have...

Jun 19, 2025, 5:16 PM

Israel Didn’t Start This War: Iran Did, Long Ago

Driven by a redemptionist theological drive to destroy Israel, Tehran long ago declared an existential war on the Jewish state. The claim that Israel started the war with Iran – pushed by NGOs, authoritarian regimes, keyboard jihadists, and the Western...

Jun 12, 2025, 11:57 AM

Normandy, Gaza, and the Awful Cost of Just War

As Israel faces international condemnation for its war in Gaza, a historical comparison with the Allied campaign in Normandy reveals uncomfortable truths about the morality of warfare, the tragedy of civilian suffering, and the double standards applied to democratic...

May 15, 2025, 9:37 AM

It’s Time to End the ‘Nakba’ — Here’s How

From ethnic Germans expelled across Europe, to refugees displaced by the India-Pakistan partition—millions were uprooted by conflicts in the 1940s and successfully resettled. It’s time to end the Palestinian exception. Every May 15, Palestinians mark Nakba Day — the “catastrophe.”...

Apr 23, 2025, 9:10 PM

The Mirage of Neo-Bundism: A Zionist Rebuttal

Neo-Bundism is not a revival—it is a resurrection of a ghost. It evokes the ashes of a failed ideology, one buried beneath the weight of historical catastrophe and revived only by those willing to forget why it died in...

Oct 22, 2023, 6:42 PM

Anti-Zionist Jews in Service to Annihilationist Antisemitism

In the last week we’ve been witness to anti-Zionist Jewish groups organizing in Washington against Israel’s right to defend its citizens in the aftermath of the mass murder by Hamas death squads of 1,400 Israelis and other nationals. Whether...

Oct 16, 2023, 3:32 PM

Waiting for the inevitable

Waiting.... We are waiting for the other shoe to drop. We know it is coming, we didn't call up 400,000 reservists to hold a grand picnic. I live in the north. Driving yesterday I saw convoys of heavy armor heading south....

Jan 11, 2022, 5:05 PM

When fathers weep

Ammar Muhammad Hujayrat, z"l. (Courtesy, via The Times of Israel)

A Bedouin child's violent death. His family's extra bitter coffee of mourning. And my effort to share the pain in an embrace that said what I couldn't in words

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Yitzhak Santis made aliyah in 2011. He is a longtime pro-Israel advocate in both the United States and Israel. He served as a regional director for the ADL in the 1980s and as Director of Middle East Affairs for the San Francisco Jewish Community Relations Council from the 1990s through 2011. In Israel he continued his work with pro-Israel NGOs and today is a freelance writer and speaker. The views expressed here are his own.

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