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Jimmy Bitton

Host, Echoes of Jewish History Podcast

Sep 10, 2026, 4:48 PM

The word progress has always carried moral danger. It sounds clean. It suggests improvement, modernization, civic purpose, and movement toward something better. But history teaches a harder lesson. Progress often arrives with winners already named and losers expected to disappear...

Jul 2, 2026, 11:46 PM

The War Over Israel Is Also a War Over Truth

Every civilization depends upon an invisible foundation. It is not military strength, economic prosperity, or technological innovation. Those are expressions of a civilization’s vitality, not its source. Beneath them lies something far more fundamental: a shared confidence that reality...

Jun 5, 2026, 12:36 AM

The CEO Who Never Stopped Writing

Fredric Price has lived a life that resists the usual categories. In one world, he is a life sciences executive and entrepreneur who has served as CEO of five firms, Chairman of the Board of eight companies, and board member...

Apr 14, 2026, 6:46 PM

The Desecration of Holocaust Remembrance Day

This display in Amsterdam on the eve of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) is a vile desecration. The piles of shoes — that most devastating symbol of industrial Jewish murder — were lifted from their historical reality and redirected toward...

Apr 9, 2026, 10:00 PM

Mimouna and the Myth of Jewish-Arab Coexistence

I first wrote about Mimouna in 2016, for the Canadian Jewish News. I described the cultural symbiosis between Jews and Arabs in Morocco. I meant every word. I return to the subject every few years because the holiday keeps...

Mar 4, 2026, 10:11 PM

Israel Didn’t Drag America Into War. Iran Did.

‍The claim that Israel somehow forced the United States into a war with Iran is not new. It is simply the modern version of one of the oldest conspiracies in political history: the idea that Jews secretly control world...

Jan 1, 2026, 10:42 PM

New Year Reset: A New Logic Strategy for Israel

Jimmy Bitton recording an episode of the Echoes of Jewish History podcast.

As another year begins, Israel remains trapped in a familiar position — esponding to a constant stream of accusations delivered with moral certainty but examined with little analytical rigor. The prevailing assumption is that Israel has a public relations...

Nov 21, 2025, 11:46 PM

Judaism Is Being Redefined — Without Jews

When a mob surrounds a synagogue in New York City and calls for the murder of Jews, the moral lines should be obvious. They were not. Zohran Mamdani condemned the Jews inside for discussing Aliyah. That single moment tells a larger story...

Sep 29, 2025, 5:32 AM

Can Trump’s 21-Point Plan Withstand Reality?

Donald Trump’s 21-point plan for Gaza has captured attention not because it offers another temporary truce, but because it attempts something far larger: the redesign of Gaza and, with it, a new regional order. The plan calls for the...

Sep 17, 2025, 8:57 PM

Echoes of Israeli Food

There’s a new form of antisemitism circulating in academic and cultural spaces. It doesn’t come with swastikas or slurs — instead, it disguises itself as “sociology” or “food studies.” Some claim that when Jews say hummus or falafel are part...

About Me

Jimmy Bitton is a historian, founder of Echoes Media, and host of Echoes of Jewish History. His work examines Israel, antisemitism, Zionism, Jewish identity, and the history behind the arguments shaping public debate today.

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