Dmitri Shufutinsky

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Apr 28, 2024, 12:18 AM

Rafah: Israel’s ‘Smyrna Moment’

As hostage-ceasefire talks with Hamas continue and Israel prepares for a possible operation in Rafah to destroy the terrorist organization, it's time that decision makers in Jerusalem not just look to the future, but to the past. And that...

Feb 18, 2024, 9:05 AM

AIPAC: Support the Ukraine-Israel Aid Package

Our world sits on a precipice -- over the edge lies a surrender to barbarism that is best left to previous centuries. The US Senate has, thankfully, passed a $95 billion aid package, which includes military equipment, for Taiwan, Israel,...

Jun 21, 2023, 10:51 PM

Dhimmi Leaders in “Legacy” Jewish Organizations

For months--no, for years--alarm has been growing in the American Jewish community over the inaction of large swathes of so-called leaders for our "legacy" organizations. Groups like the Jewish Community Relations Council, the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Council for...

Mar 27, 2023, 5:40 AM

Israel Must Not Become 1930s Spain

How is it that a country, one of the most technologically-advanced on Earth, can lack a national vision of governance? How is it that millions of voters blindly adopt dogma without nuance? How is it that hundreds of political leaders are...

Jan 31, 2023, 6:32 AM

US Jews Should Change Israel Through Aliyah

Photo credit: https://www.ajc.org/news/top-5-things-american-and-israeli-jews-should-know-about-each-other

No, my title isn't meant to be sarcastic or judgmental. I truly mean it! If American Jews are truly concerned about the future of the State of Israel, then they should move there! Like thousands of American Jews, I made...

Dec 8, 2022, 2:59 PM

What Happened to Jewish Dignity?

The level of vitriol us Jews hurl against each other is disgusting. It's on an unprecedented level – unless, of course, one looks back at the Roman period. It seems the Jewish Right has forgotten how to love the...

Oct 26, 2022, 6:40 AM

Progressive Ukraine Letter & The Horseshoe Theory

Today, a group of progressive Democrats in the US House of Representatives were forced to withdraw a letter calling on US President Joe Biden to engage the Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin, in diplomacy on his illegal invasion of Ukraine....

Sep 29, 2022, 7:13 AM

Her Name was Jina

"Mahsa" Amini This is the name that has made headlines around the world as Iranian women protest the inequality they face systemically in the Islamic Republic. The cutting of hair and burning of headscarves as women of all generations in...

May 2, 2022, 1:08 PM

‘Demilitarize’ and ‘De-Putinize’ Russia for May 9th

The 9th of May is a special holiday in Russia and other former Soviet countries, celebrating the USSR's costly victory over Nazi Germany. Yet this year, there must be another goal in mind, one that the West should continue...

Apr 4, 2022, 7:44 PM

The Blessing of Being an American-Soviet-Israeli

This title seems like an oxymoron, doesn't it? Someone who is an American oleh to the Jewish state, with a name like Dmitri Alexander Shufutinsky? In my experience as a Lone Soldier in the army, sometimes people didn't know where to put...

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About Me

Dmitri Shufutinsky is a freelance reporter with the Jewish News Syndicate, and a Junior Research Fellow with ISGAP. He made aliyah to Kibbutz Erez through Garin Tzabar in 2019, and served as a Lone Soldier in the IDF. Dmitri is an ardent Zionist and a supporter of indigenous rights, autonomy, solidarity, and sovereignty. He currently lives in Hadera, and a graduate of Arcadia University's Masters program in International Peace & Conflict Resolution.