Lindsay Toledano

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May 24, 2025, 1:31 PM

No, another October 7th is not inevitable

AN OPEN LETTER TO N12 JOURNALIST AMIT SEGAL AND OTHERS WITH A SIMILAR IDEOLOGY: SHAME ON YOU! You are endorsing baseless slogans. To say that October 7th could happen again is tantamount to the belief that we are a weak nation...

Feb 18, 2025, 5:26 PM

Perpetuating the Myth of a Palestinian People

For decades the entire world has been complicit in perpetuating this myth of a Palestinian people. Its time this false narrative stopped. There never was at any time in history a Palestinian people. There were ARABS who lived in British...

Apr 1, 2024, 10:05 AM

TRUMP: NOT A TRUE FRIEND OF ISRAEL.

For many Americans the 2024 US elections will once again not be a Republican versus Democrat issue. Biden’s resounding win (8 million popular votes more than Trump) in 2020 was not exactly a vote for Biden, but an emphatic...

Mar 30, 2023, 5:17 PM

Why not a National Referendum on Judicial Reform?

Netanyahu and the coalition are constantly reiterating that their judicial reform legislation is backed by the will of the people. However numerous polls show that to be far from the truth, therefore undermining the premise that this legislation has...

Dec 23, 2016, 11:42 PM

What is wrong with our government?

What is wrong with our government? Why do we skirt around the facts instead of stating them categorically in the way that they were either uttered by world leaders or laid down in international law. It should be impossible for...

Jun 24, 2015, 7:22 PM

The farce of the flotilla

In certain camps, it is fashionable to blame Bibi, the proverbially accused “war and fear-monger,” for all our woes and for his inaction to promote peace. On the other hand, Shimon Peres is regarded as extremely proactive in the...

May 18, 2015, 2:31 PM

The UNRWA farce: Nothing more than a blatant travesty of human integrity based on a political agenda

“And what I think at this point, realistically, we can do is to try to rebuild trust – not through a big overarching deal, which I don’t think is probably possible in the next year, given the makeup of...

May 15, 2015, 1:38 PM

Hannah Szenes: A tribute to the man who told us her story

Having lived in Israel for nearly 20 years, I have had the opportunity to watch the Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony broadcast live every year from Yad Vashem. Each year at the same period I also hear stories about the life...

Jul 18, 2014, 8:28 AM

Biased international media

I am constantly incensed by the biased international media and lack of factual information presented to the global audience in regards to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Israel has spent the last 66 years building a country, making a barren desert bloom,...

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About Me

Lindsay Toledano was born and raised in London in a secular, Zionist family. Her father was responsible for the Hannah Szenes diaries being published in English; which she wrote about in another piece on The Blogs. She worked as an actress before getting married in 1975 and moving to Paris, followed by several years in New York and Los Angeles. She is the mother of two children, a writer, and has lived in Israel since 1995.