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Sep 15, 2026, 7:46 PM

When Freedom Stops at Israel

The West cannot champion liberty while denying Israel solidarity Before explaining the bankruptcy of Western civilization to the rest of us, some of its more fortunate beneficiaries might consult the relatives who went to considerable trouble to get them admitted...

Sep 15, 2026, 6:20 PM

Being Pro-Israel Means Knowing the Settlements Are Not Israel

Distinguishing sovereign Israel from the West Bank is legally correct and strategically necessary. Turning that distinction into a trade ban on settlement goods backfires: it punishes civilians, strengthens annexationists and makes separation politically harder. Britain, France and Canada have announced...

Alexander A. Winogradsky Frenkel

Sep 9, 2026, 9:32 PM

Germany and the Geography of Memory

The Germany I Encountered The recent elections in Saxony are the occasion for this essay, but they are not its subject. Electoral results belong to the immediate political moment. The deeper question is what happens to historical memory when borders,...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Sep 8, 2026, 1:38 PM

Israel Must Fight Turkey’s Maritime Aggression Now

Ankara’s revisionist foreign policy thrives on uncontested space, fed by a Western complacency that consistently ignores Turkish expansionism. This aggressive posture materialized in November 2019, when Turkey signed a maritime memorandum with Tripoli’s authorities, carving out a corridor across...

Sep 6, 2026, 12:21 AM

The Loyalty Test

Do you love America?

Anyone Seeking Election in America Must Prove Their Love for It Immediately after the genocide perpetrated by Palestinians against Israelis on October 7, anti-Israel demonstrations—planned well in advance—erupted across the Western world. It was astonishing to watch the anti-Israel machinery...

Eliyahu V. Sapir

Sep 5, 2026, 5:42 PM

The face and the voice

TL;DR: Europe knows what to do with a Jewish face in a photograph: name it, mourn it, preserve it, learn from it. A Jewish voice is harder. It can disagree with the lesson, demand protection in the present, and...

Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Sep 3, 2026, 10:16 PM

The Logical Fallacies That Erase Inconvenient Holocaust Prisoners

There is a document in the Swedish archives dated June 28, 1945. It records an interrogation of my husband’s grandfather, Alois Simonič, conducted only weeks after his liberation from the Nazi concentration camp system. He was thirty-one years old. Alois...

Sofia Afonso Ferreira

Sep 3, 2026, 6:24 PM

Not Far-Right. Just Fed Up.

Demonstration in Madrid, September 2, 2026

Yesterday Spain took to the streets, and Pedro Sánchez’s government once again did the numbers the way one manages a budget — downwards. While the government delegation in Madrid insisted on 50,000 people in Plaza de Cibeles, the capital’s...

Aug 30, 2026, 6:40 AM

Consensus is Not Morality

Norway has been on my mind lately. Recently, someone I met who works for an Israeli company told me about an encounter involving a potential Norwegian customer. Before moving forward, the customer wanted a declaration that the company did not...

Aug 28, 2026, 6:21 PM

Article 5 Has a Map. Turkey Does Not Get to Redraw It.

An Israel–Turkey clash would be extraordinarily costly to both. But the decisive variables are not platform counts: who is attacked, where, which legal basis is activated, and who is obliged - or chooses - to enter. Cyprus sits at...

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