Michelle Mazel, at The Blogs

Jun 21, 2024, 5:36 PM

October 7. A day of infamy. Hamas terrorists crossed the border into Israel and went on a murderous spree. How do we know? Because they used their own cellphones to record and post their deeds on the Internet. The...

Apr 29, 2024, 9:33 PM

Never again, they said. And then Columbia happened

According to the New York Times, “A video has surfaced of one of the leaders of the anti-Israeli protests at Columbia University stating repeatedly and emphatically that Zionists “don’t deserve to live” and should be killed.“ The existence of...

Feb 10, 2022, 10:41 PM

Ill winds blowing from France:

Rejection and hatred of Israel as the main factor of antisemitism? Reeling from the impact of the fifth wave of the Covid pandemic and embroiled in political squabbles, Israel has paid scant attention to startling and unwelcome revelations about antisemitism...

Jun 13, 2017, 12:54 PM

The day war came to Jerusalem: a personal recollection

It feels sometimes as if it was just yesterday. The rumbling of Jordanian canons shaking the windows, pervasive gunpowder smell, frightened women and children huddling in woefully inadequate shelters. Yet for those who weren’t there, who did not live...

About Me

Michelle Mazel was born in France. A graduate of the Institute for Political Science of Paris and of the Law school of that city, she was a Fullbright scholar to the United States. She married an Israeli diplomat and for forty years, until he retired in 2004, she went with him from one interesting country to another, witnessing Sadat’s assassination in Cairo and the fall of Ceausescu in Rumania.