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Joe Beare

Jan 7, 2025, 6:08 AM

Five years ago, I attended one of President Jimmy Carter’s last public speeches: an annual lecture to the freshman class of Emory University. Carter was honoring an ancient tradition of my alma mater, and I relished the opportunity to...

Jul 3, 2024, 10:50 PM

American Jews: Embrace Your Power

American Jews have a complicated relationship with power. In July 2020, White nationalists created the hashtag #JewishPrivilege to spread ideas of subversive Jewish influence — that we exercise cabalistic control over the international media, the banks, and even the weather....

Apr 18, 2024, 8:14 PM

UNRWA Must Go

It was John F. Kennedy who put it best. The United Nations, he said, was established to create “world law in the age of self-determination - as opposed to world war in the age of mass extermination.” This is...

Mar 20, 2024, 7:33 PM

The Palestinians deserve better friends

Supporters of Islamic political party Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) take part in an anti-Israel protest rally in Islamabad on May 21, 2021. (Photo by Aamir QURESHI / AFP) (Photo by AAMIR QURESHI/AFP via Getty Images)

For decades, Palestinian nationalism has taken two forms: territorial compromise or politicide. Many Western supporters – like myself – have advocated for the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. According...

Feb 21, 2024, 10:41 AM

The Palestinians need their own Altalena

On June 20, 1948, a ship named the Altalena appeared off the coast of Tel Aviv, just over a month after Israel declared its independence. At the time, Israel’s survival was far from guaranteed. It faced an onslaught of...

Feb 9, 2024, 7:22 AM

The Rabin Delusion

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (left) and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat (right) shake hands at the White House in front of President Bill Clinton in September 1993. The new play OSLO is a dramatization of events that led to a historic agreement

If there was one person who truly personified the spirit and story of Israel, it was Yitzhak Rabin. He fought for Israel’s independence in 1948 and the army he prepared for war achieved a stunning victory in 1967. Less...

Jan 20, 2024, 10:18 AM

Israel has nothing to hide — and a lot to show

The Jewish people have been accused of many things. Jean-Paul Sartre put it most succinctly when he wrote that antisemites “delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and...

Jan 9, 2024, 4:14 PM

For Zionism to Survive, Bibi has to Go

In 1948, Israel’s founders had much more in mind than the mere creation of a state. In the words of historian Daniel Gordis, they sought to “transform the existential condition of the Jew.” Two thousand years after the Roman...

Jul 20, 2022, 5:25 PM

The Cynical Exploitation of Israeli Democracy

MK Aida Touma-Suleiman of the Joint (Arab) List speaks at a party campaign rally in Tel Aviv, August 20, 2019

In 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from Victor Verster Prison in Cape Town after spending twenty-seven years behind bars. His only crime was that of rebelling against the white minority that subjugated his people by denying them the right...

About Me

Joe Beare is an alumnus of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He served as the President of Emory's Meor club and worked with the Institute for the Study of Modern Israel on a range of Israel-related papers, articles and educational initiatives. Along with his commitment to Israel advocacy and scholarship, Beare captained Emory's Varsity Soccer Team. He can be reached at: joe.beare@me.com.