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Yaroslav Mar

Jun 14, 2026, 7:54 PM

There will be no Palestinian state — now what?

For 78 years the Palestinian cause has bet that Israel is temporary. The bet has lost.

Jun 4, 2026, 9:44 AM

Anti-Zionism is a confession

Tell me where a politician stands on Israel and I can tell you the rest. Pedro Sánchez is only the latest to confess

Apr 14, 2026, 10:17 AM

The Pope defends Iran. Who defends its Christians?

The Vatican ignored a plea for persecuted Christians. Then it condemned the country bombing their persecutors

Apr 6, 2026, 2:47 PM

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Deus Vult and the green-eyed crusader

The trad Catholic bros don’t hate Israel because of theology. They hate it because Israel embodies everything they thought they’d find in the Church

Mar 21, 2026, 7:52 PM

The Catholic right is pro-Israel. America’s online converts are the exception

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Transportation Minister Miri Regev during a meeting with conservative European lawmakers at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on January 25, 2026. Photo: Kobi Gideon (GPO)

From Budapest to Santiago, conservative Catholics stand with Israel. The cosplay converts pushing anti-Zionism don’t represent them — and didn’t get their cues from Rome

Feb 24, 2026, 2:26 AM

Jerusalem’s opportunity in Latin America

Argentina’s President Javier Milei meets Israel’s President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem, February 6, 2024. (Photo: Casa Rosada / Presidencia de la Nación Argentina, casarrosada.gob.ar.)

Latin America is sobering up. A Jerusalem–Washington–Buenos Aires partnership could reshape the hemisphere — if Israel stops treating the region as an afterthought

Nov 8, 2025, 3:03 PM

Russian liberals are no friends of Israel

Image: Composite illustration by Yaroslav Mar (AI-generated)

When they call Jews 'sovoks' and insects, believe them—not their branding

Aug 10, 2025, 12:28 AM

Just say no to a Palestinian state

The illusion has gone on long enough. For decades, world leaders have clung to the idea that peace in the Middle East depends on the creation of a Palestinian state, as though the next summit or resolution might finally...

Aug 3, 2025, 12:12 AM

The tyranny of kidolatry

There is no image more potent in modern propaganda than that of a Palestinian child. The world clings to it—bloodied faces, dusty clothes, wide-eyed gazes caught in the rubble of war—like a moral compass. The moment a Palestinian minor...

Jul 29, 2025, 7:15 PM

Israel and Latin America’s amnesia

Two weeks ago, Colombia hosted the first Hague Group Summit in Bogotá—where President Gustavo Petro and his allies, including Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, pledged to enforce ICC arrest warrants against Israeli leaders. They called it “the end of impunity.”...

About Me

Yaroslav Mar is a Jerusalem-based political analyst, writer, and translator. A fluent Spanish speaker and Hispanist, he frequently appears in Latin American media commenting on Israeli politics and Jewish identity. He made Aliyah from Russia in 2019 after years of Zionist activism and is the author of a book on music and colonization.

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