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Harry Katcher

99.6% Ashkenazi + .4% Viking = 100% Zionist

Mar 31, 2026, 3:46 AM

Are You Opposed to the Gulf of America But Want to Free Palestine?

Let me take a guess. You oppose the idea of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.” You see it as political, heavy-handed, and a superpower flexing its influence to reshape geography for its own purposes. And to...

Mar 15, 2026, 8:15 PM

Welcome to our World

Earlier today I caught part of a speech by António Guterres about the war between Israel and Lebanon. I wasn’t alone. A friend happened to be watching with me. As the speech continued, I noticed a puzzled look spreading across her...

Feb 18, 2026, 3:15 AM

Stop the Presses! Celebrities Air their Ignorance and Bigotry

There was a time when the fog of war allowed confusion to masquerade as certainty. That time has passed. The fighting in Gaza has largely wound down. The hostages have been released. Large-scale offensives have stopped. Claims have been reviewed. Numbers...

Jan 31, 2026, 9:49 AM

Stop Kvetching!

There’s a familiar lament echoing through Jewish conversations right now — on social media, at dinner tables, in comment sections: How can they chant “Free Palestine” and say nothing while Iran slaughters its own people? How can they scream about oppression...

Jan 21, 2026, 1:35 AM

When History Whispers, We’d Better Listen

I once read a historian say that empires never march in with a smile — they slip in on a hand extended in friendship. There’s a reason that insight has traveled through centuries: it is, time and again, the...

Dec 14, 2025, 10:32 PM

If This Shocks You, You Haven’t Been Paying Attention

On December 14, 2025, a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach—Chanukah by the Sea—became the site of a targeted attack against the Jewish community. People gathered to celebrate a holiday of light. Someone brought a gun. As this is still breaking...

Nov 27, 2025, 6:30 AM

Wake Up — Don’t Hit Snooze!

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, German Jews enjoyed what felt like the height of security. They were professors, judges, artists, doctors, parliamentarians, and soldiers who had fought for Germany in World War I. They spoke the language,...

Nov 24, 2025, 12:50 AM

Lather, Rinse, Repeat

The instructions on a shampoo bottle are simple: Lather. Rinse. Repeat. They don’t explain why you should repeat; they just assume you will. The same assumption seems to echo through the world’s ongoing reaction to Gaza. Same sequence. Same...

Nov 15, 2025, 9:46 AM

Remember the Past

History has a habit of whispering before it shouts. We ignore those whispers at our peril. In the aftermath of Israel’s victory in the recent 12-day war, many in the West exhaled. Iran had been exposed—its proxies neutralized, its infrastructure...

Nov 13, 2025, 6:10 AM

Talking to a Wall

I stood at the Western Wall and said, “Israel is not committing genocide.” Then I added, “Israel has delivered millions of tons of aid to the people of Gaza—during the war.” I went on, “Israel endangered its own soldiers to warn civilians before every...

About Me

Harry Katcher is a writer and editor based in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He writes on Israel, the Middle East, and the challenges of moral clarity in modern discourse.