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Jun 19, 2025, 11:02 PM

Inches to Metric: Network Above, Tunnels Below #1

I was about to post this series just prior to the Israeli strike on Iran. It is still relevant. Do you feel like you are in an information/news fog? How did we get here? I'm going to try to connect...

Cedric Vloemans

Jun 17, 2025, 10:40 AM

Israel’s quiet green revolution

Generated image of an innovative and climate-neutral agricultural environment

When it comes to international discourse on Israel, one theme dominates almost everything else: conflict. Whether it’s war, occupation, international condemnations or political gridlock, the media’s gaze remains fixated on confrontation. Rarely do we see headlines about the ways...

Jun 13, 2025, 1:53 PM

The West’s War on Israel Alone

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The Hypocrisy of the West: Boycotting Israel While Ignoring Real Occupier The BDS movement, Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions, claims to be a peaceful initiative aiming to pressure Israel into ending its "occupation" and improving Palestinian human rights. On the surface,...

Toni Airaksinen

Jun 12, 2025, 6:43 PM

Where Are All The Pro-Israel Professors?

The author, Toni Airaksinen (right) at a launch party for a politically unorthodox magazine while she was a student at Barnard College.

In this environment, it’s almost impossible to find anyone — students or professors — who admit they hold conservative or unorthodox views on any topic. To be public about those views could be equivalent to committing social or career suicide,...

Jun 9, 2025, 8:03 PM

Divide-and-Rule: Netanyahu’s Flawed Strategy

Divide-and-Rule: Netanyahu's Flawed Strategy

Binyamin Netanyahu’s political beliefs have been open-ended since inception albeit glossed over by the international community. A lot has changed, since his election as Likud party chairman in 1993, yet trends and tactics remain the same. A policy of ‘land...

Jun 6, 2025, 2:27 PM

A pro-divestment movement takes shape on Canadian university campuses

On May 8, 2025, the University of Toronto Faculty Association (UTFA), which represents professors and librarians at one of the largest universities in North America, adopted a resolution proposed by an anonymous group of its members that calls on...

Toni Airaksinen

Jun 4, 2025, 11:14 PM

How Campus Hamas Supporters Led Me To Judaism

Collage — Top Left: Conversion Certificate, Bottom Left: Photo From My Conversion Ceremony, Right: Photo with Rabbi Steve Moss and Cantor "Dan" at Temple Sinai of Palm Beach Country. Credits: Toni Airaksinen.

When I began studying at Barnard College of Columbia University in 2015, I was on a full-ride scholarship. Coming from a foster-care type upbringing, I had no family. No friends in NYC. And no support system. But I was...

May 29, 2025, 5:19 AM

Boycotters Without a Cause: The Circus of Hypocritical Activism

Ziophobes scream “BDS! Boycott Israel!” while proudly promoting boycott apps — on LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft, the very company they call “most complicit in genocide.” Image © Ivan Bassov, 2025. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

The BDS movement demands a boycott — just not of anything they actually use In the grand theater of modern outrage, few performances are more farcical than the so-called “boycott movement” against Israel. BDS activists — those self-appointed moral arbiters of justice — love...

Andy Blumenthal

May 25, 2025, 6:02 AM

Who Are You to Threaten Israel?

International Warnings and Demands This past week, the United Kingdom, France, and Canada issued stern warnings to Israel, threatening “concrete actions”—including potential sanctions—should Israel not halt its military operations in Gaza and restore humanitarian aid. These demands come despite the...

David H. Levitt

May 24, 2025, 1:50 AM

Steps to Prevent the Next Antisemitic Attack?

After the murder of two young Israeli embassy staff members in Washington, D.C. at the Jewish Museum, the condemnations (sincere and insincere) from domestic and foreign governments and various NGOs are rolling in, along with the obligatory statements that...

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