Liran Kapoano

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Oct 17, 2023, 11:02 AM

The Most Inconvenient Minority

Boy it sure is something being a Jew today, isn’t it? I’m sitting here, watching the absolute spectacle of people who cried over the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, now coming out and regurgitating simply sickening Hamas propaganda. And when in the summer...

Oct 13, 2023, 5:27 AM

The Campuses Will Be Lit

An open letter to all pro-Israel, Zionist, and Jewish students (whether outwardly or not) on college campuses across the United States: Get ready. As I’m sure you've already noticed, your pro-Palestinian friends may have recently undergone a change. The absolutely despicable...

Oct 9, 2023, 2:55 AM

I Am At My Son’s Soccer Practice

I am standing here at my son’s soccer practice watching him run around. This morning when I woke up my wife asked me if it was true that 20 Israelis were killed in a terror attack. I’m trying to...

Jun 6, 2023, 4:40 PM

Why do so many anti-Israel BDS supporters support Putin’s war against Ukraine?

Roger Waters performs at the United Center in Chicago, July 26, 2022. (Rob Grabowski/Invision/AP, File)

You can support either liberal democracy or Bashar al-Assad, Nasrallah, Haniyeh and Putin. You can't do both

Jan 10, 2021, 7:42 AM

The Final Offramp

Trump supporters gather outside the US Capitol building, January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

For many of us, the various outrages of the Trump presidency (and candidacy) far outweighed the good. For others, especially many within the professional pro-Israel community, it was seen as a worthwhile bargain. To some extent – even though...

Oct 8, 2020, 5:42 PM

Have we all lost our minds?

Look around you. Do you like what you see? From Borough Park, to Lakewood, to Modiin Illit, and all the way to Uman, it feels like people have taken leave of their senses. Across the New York metro area, people...

Dec 6, 2017, 6:07 PM

When it comes to Jerusalem, the vessel matters as much as the message

US President Donald Trump delivers a statement on Jerusalem from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, DC on December 6, 2017. (AFP/ Saul Loeb)

The US president is divisive, self-serving, possibly corrupt, and everything he does in office is tainted

Nov 23, 2016, 6:52 AM

STOP Telling Me What Isn’t Anti-Semitism

For years, we who have either been student activists or have worked with them have been frustrated by the inability of the public to stand with us against the hatred and intimidation that Jewish and pro-Israel students suffer daily...

Jul 6, 2016, 10:42 PM

Donald Trump’s Jewish Problem

Is Donald Trump an anti-Semite? That seems to be the question of this election for Jewish voters. “Yes! Just read his Twitter feed,” cry out his detractors. “No! His daughter converted to Judaism,” scream his defenders. And so it goes…...

Dec 20, 2014, 12:21 AM

Kiss my Pyongyang

Right about now, Iran is studying North Korea's success in doing damage simply by making threats

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About Me

Liran Kapoano is a business owner and Israel advocate with a passion for his family, adventure travel and marketing (although unfortunately not always in that order). He is also an Israeli trapped in an American body who enjoys a walk-off home run as much as a 91st minute soccer goal. He can be found agonizing over the current state of affairs @kapoano daily on Twitter.