Yakov Goltsman

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May 17, 2024, 6:13 PM

Jewish Indigeneity is not Hasbara

The anti-Israel protests in US campuses have criticized an alleged Jewish colonization over Israel-Palestine. The core argument is that Jews are a religion, and therefore not a nation. If they’re not a nation, they’re different ethnic groups from different homelands who...

May 11, 2024, 9:34 PM

Broken Hearted Dissidents

The morning of October 7th left most Israelis with an irremediable broken heart. Many Israelis, with me among them, have lost loved ones, friends, and families. Entire generations of families were cut down by the Hamas onslaught. Many of...

May 5, 2024, 11:38 PM

The ‘Never Again Contract’ was Violated

On a stone in the Treblinka concentration camp memorial site there’s a two-word sentence in 7 languages. The stone reads “Never Again". Allegedly, the first time the sentence appeared in Holocaust remembrance was right after the American liberation of...

Apr 28, 2024, 12:09 AM

External Americanization, Internal Americanization

Two things made me write this piece. The first is Tally Gotliv’s reaction to the report which promised United States sanctions against the IDF’s Netzah Yehuda. In her reaction she wrote: “Who do you think you are, US, that...

Apr 22, 2024, 7:48 AM

International Complementarity and Netzah Yehuda

On April 20, 2024, it was reported that the US State Department is planning on sanctioning the IDF battalion “Netzah Yehuda”. The news reignited an interesting discussion regarding Israeli loyalty to the United States, Israeli control over the West...

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About Me

Law student and social commentator with research background in international law, jurisprudence, and political theory. Maj. (res.) in the IDF. Born in Homesh, lives in Haifa.