Samuel J. Hyde, at The Blogs

Nov 14, 2023, 6:43 PM

The Underlying Substrate of Islamism and Progressivism One particularly painful realization among my counterparts on the Israeli left is that the attack has been framed by the global left as an act of legitimate resistance, and even as an "exhilarating"...

Mar 14, 2023, 4:34 PM

The Government Won the Battle, But Lost the War

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on March 13, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** כנסת
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The real problem with their worldview is that their desire to achieve total domination is a fantasy. There’s never going to be a point where you’ve 'slain' all of your enemies and you are now in charge. Their real...

Jan 13, 2022, 10:22 PM

From dreams to fears and back again?

The dream was simple: Israel’s victory in the war would lead to victory over war itself. Many felt that the trajectory of the Jewish people would undergo an enlightened shift after the 1967 Six Day War. The Golan Heights, as...

Sep 28, 2021, 8:04 PM

Why We Should Be Against the US Foreign Aid

Israeli medical staff cheer an Israeli airforce acrobatic team flies over Shaarei Tsedek hospital in Jerusalem on Israel's 72nd Inependence Day. This year, the airforce will fly over all the hospitals in Israel as a way of honouring the medical staff during the Coronavirus outbreak. April 29, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** יום העצמאות
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Israel’s newly appointed Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, agreed on June 17 to a request from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken: " that Israel not surprise Washington with any moves against Iran". In other words, Lapid has accepted that Israel...

Jul 8, 2021, 5:22 PM

The philosophical mystique of an audio engineer

Over the decades, legendary producer and engineer Eddie Kramer has been behind the console with the best of the best: The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones and Kiss to name a few. As an engineer/producer myself, I always...

Jul 7, 2021, 7:44 PM

The social-media pogrom

It’s a cold autumn night in Johannesburg. I lie on my bed preparing for my pending aliyah, my laptop resting on my thighs, writing. Suddenly my phone vibrates, I continue, it vibrates again, I focus on these words, the...

Jul 6, 2021, 12:20 AM

Israeli Filmmaker banned from Durban Film Fest

OPEN LETTER TO ISMAIL MAHOMED AND THE DURBAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: My name is Samuel Hyde, I have worked both in the theatre industry and currently work as an engineer/producer in the music business. I studied the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism...

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Samuel Hyde is a writer and a political researcher, based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Hyde works at The Jewish People Policy Institute, previously at The Foundation For Defense of Democracies, Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance and the Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Centre. He is the editor of “We Should All Be Zionists” by former Knesset member Dr. Einat Wilf.

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