Jaime Kardontchik

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Jun 4, 2025, 9:14 PM

The forgotten refugees: Shame on France!

This month, the UN General Assembly will convene a Conference in New York under the euphemistic title: “International Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution”. It will be chaired...

Jun 1, 2025, 11:08 AM

France’s presidential elections are coming – and Israel will foot the bill

The United Nations adopted last December 10, 2024, the Resolution 79/81. This resolution calls for a “High-Level International Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution”, to be held during...

Apr 22, 2025, 7:54 AM

Is a truce with Hamas really necessary today?

There was a truce in effect on October 6th 2023. Hamas violated it by invading the southern Israel towns on October 7th, killing, raping, and burning more than 1,000 Israelis, and dragging back to Gaza another 250 hostages. There was...

Mar 21, 2025, 4:30 PM

Ethnic Studies and Totalitarianism

“Ethnic Studies” in the US are often used to indoctrinate students in the binary “oppressor versus oppressed” ideology. In this narrative, Jews are placed by others (self-elected as “the enlightened”) as “oppressors”, as part of the class of “white...

Mar 10, 2025, 7:35 AM

Gaza, Trump, and the Arab initiative

A peace initiative to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict, based on facts and not on myths, is needed. The 2-state solution is dead: It was killed by the Palestinians when they rejected President Bill Clinton’s proposal, in year 2000, for...

Feb 21, 2025, 9:25 AM

Make ‘Ethnic Studies’ optional in Californian public schools

Mandatory “Ethnic Studies” has been a very divisive issue. The recent debate at the Palo Alto Unified School District Board regarding the mandatory adoption of an “Ethnic Studies” course for 9th graders, and the consequent demotion of the Chinese...

Feb 18, 2025, 12:59 PM

Ethnic Studies: Make Our Children Literate Again! (MOCLA!)

“MOCLA” is a Spanish-Mexican word, used particularly among children. It refers to a “backpack” or “book bag” – a bag used to carry school supplies. “MOCHILA” is used instead in other Spanish speaking countries. MOCLA (or MOCHILA) stands also for...

Feb 6, 2025, 9:09 AM

An authentic Arab Peace Initiative is needed

President Trump’s proposal to resettle the Palestinian population of Gaza to neighboring countries is producing one healthy outcome: the Arab countries and the international community are been forced to look again at the problem of the refugees from the...

Sep 20, 2024, 8:50 AM

Robert F. Kennedy Jr: On Russia and nuclear wars

Cover of my new book “Robert F. Kennedy Jr: On Russia and nuclear wars” (paperback edition)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr gave a remarkable speech in New Hampshire, “Peace and Democracy”, on June 20, 2023, commemorating the anniversary of a famous speech given by his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, at the American University in 1963....

Sep 12, 2024, 6:12 PM

The antisemitism of the Left in the US

Just across the border of Israel, Syria is a war zone. According to the United Nations, by 2022 more than 306,887 Syrian civilians were killed since the 2011 uprising against the Assad’s regime . You would not know this from...

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About Me

Jaime Kardontchik has a PhD in Physics from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. He lives in the Silicon Valley, California.