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May 17, 2021, 2:29 PM

Israel is not Jesus. Take it down from the cross.

It's been said that people hate Israel because it's the "Jew among the nations". I certainly think this is true - as far as it goes. But wait, it gets worse. Israel is not only the Jew among the nations: it's...

May 13, 2021, 3:28 PM

What a Proportionate Response would look like

A truly proportionate response would be a terrible thing: we'd be trying to wipe the Muslim world out. A lot of people say that Israel’s response in Gaza is disproportionate, and I agree. It is absolutely disproportionate. So we must ask...

Feb 9, 2016, 12:08 AM

Who’s Your Daddy?

Why hating Israel may come from hating your parents... Plenty of intelligent, educated Europeans and Americans go pale and start shaking with rage when they talk about Israel, but the murder of a million innocent Tibetans doesn’t put them off...

Nov 29, 2015, 3:31 PM

In a previous post, I urged Zionists not to get upset about legitimate criticism of Israel. I also mentioned that there are a lot of Israel-bashers out there who automatically spit venom at everything Israeli, and this is for them. If you’re...

Nov 23, 2015, 8:34 PM

Stepping Up, Part 2: “Yes, and…”

Let's use tools from creative thinking to discuss this conflict logically. So, how do we engage our critics without performing a bunch of chest-thumping status displays (on both sides) that convince nobody, and raise our blood pressure for no good...

Nov 22, 2015, 10:43 PM

Stepping Up: Part 1

Don’t get upset about legitimate criticism of Israel. It’s all too easy to accuse Israel’s critics of being anti-Semites. Guess what: some of them are. But let’s give the world the benefit of the doubt. A lot of people out...

Nov 19, 2015, 10:49 PM

How grew this feud betwixt the right and left?

What should Israel do? That depends on what you think the Palestinians would do to the Jews, given the chance

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An adman, IDF soldier, start-up entrepreneur and investor, creativity coach and anthropologist. Proudly British by birth, proudly Israeli by choice. Reasonably sane.