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Avi Teich

Dec 11, 2024, 11:36 PM

The Fall of Assad – Israel should hope for the best but expect the worst

Fourteen years of bloody civil war; 300,000+ civilians killed; apathetic media coverage compared to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. The Assad regime has finally fallen. How the various rebel forces were able to unite, sweep across Syria, capture Aleppo, Homs, and Damascus,...

Dec 4, 2023, 10:20 AM

Consider that Opposing Israel is Ironic and Absurd

There is an exceptionalism applied to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Whether it be the moral standard to which the Israeli army is held or the justification of terrorism, critics of Israel engage in extraordinary mental gymnastics in order to demonize...

Nov 4, 2023, 9:49 PM

Israel Must Free Gaza from Hamas

The horrific Hamas attack of October 7 was just the latest and deadliest demonstration of their mission to destroy Israel. Hamas’ regime has proven to be completely antithetical to the prospect of peace for both Israelis and Palestinians. Israel’s...

May 3, 2023, 8:13 PM

Jews and Whiteness

I recently had a lecture on settler colonialism that discussed the settler strategy of racializing and othering Indigenous peoples to erase their identity. The professor discussed examples of countries with histories and ongoing legacies of settler colonialism; the United...

About Me

Avi Teich is an MA Security and Diplomacy candidate at Tel Aviv University. He obtained a BA in Sociology and Jewish Studies from Queen's University where he was a Hasbara Fellow and participant in Honest Reporting Canada's campus media fellowship.