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Michael S. Diamond

Jul 27, 2026, 4:18 AM

The Archive of Forgetting and Undoing

I have registered my maps in The Archive of Forgetting and Undoing. The walls to the Holy City have been breached in this month of the Babylonian god who at Summer’s zenith dies, the faithful son, and returns with the rains of Winter and Spring dew, ransom for his goddess sister, Lady of the Date Clusters. Perhaps...

Rebecca Sealfon

Jul 26, 2026, 9:18 PM

Anti-Zionists Taught Me About Jewish Confidence

From Khan Hadera Archive and Museum. Photo: Sonia Kolodany / Photo Sonia, CC BY 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/. Colorized using MyHeritage In Color and cropped.

For more than seven years, I have spoken regularly with anti-Zionists, including Palestinians, mostly online. Throughout, I openly displayed my Jewishness and my commitment to Jewish cultural continuity. That experience has changed how I understand the current wave of...

Linda Pardes Friedburg

Jul 23, 2026, 10:22 AM

Tzur Misgabi – Strengthening Jewish Life in Judea

"Behold, Hashem your God has given you the Land. Go up and inherit it...Do not fear and do not be discouraged." (Devarim 1:21) We must be unequivocal about the rights of Jews to live everywhere in the land of Israel...

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Jul 22, 2026, 5:46 PM

If We Decide Smotrich’s Grammar of Absolute Victory Bezalel Smotrich has defined absolute victory. Not as a general promise to defeat Hamas or as a formula attached to a continuing war, but as a specific sequence of actions. Israel is to...

Shaike Komornik

Jul 22, 2026, 11:47 AM

Israel-Turkey Relations: Strategic Competition and Imposed Partnership

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Relations between Israel and Turkey, which began in 1949 as an unannounced regional alliance between two non-Arab powers in the Middle East, have witnessed an unprecedented deterioration over the past year. Israel’s recognition of the Armenian Genocide at the...

Jul 20, 2026, 8:51 AM

The deeper obstacle for the Abraham Accords: Political Theology

The Twin Pillars of Peace Two structures were supposed to carry the region past endless war: the Board of Peace, authorized under UNSC Resolution 2803 and launched in January 2026, and the prospect of an expanded Abraham Accords built on...

Jul 13, 2026, 7:17 AM

Israel now needs years to fix what its war on Gaza did to its reputation

Israeli soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip on June 2, 2025. Credit: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit photographer / Wikimedia Israel.

There is a particular kind of tragedy – quieter than war, slower than siege, but no less devastating – in watching a country dismantle, with its own hands, the very diplomatic architecture it spent decades painstakingly constructing, and it...

Jul 11, 2026, 5:30 PM

Zionism or the History of Silencing

Silencing, In Other Words (gemini.ai generated)

"Zionism," she said, "a nice idea." She laughed in that recognizable way she had. A stranger would mistakenly accept her laugh as genuine. But not a stranger, I was not sadly surprised by her next sentence, "It failed." If I...

Jul 10, 2026, 5:36 PM

No Thanks, Rahm

No Thanks, Rahm Rahm Emanuel had a lot to say during his recent trip to Israel. To sum it up, the rise in global antisemitism and the world's double standards toward Israel are, apparently, Israel's fault. What is Israel doing wrong?...

Jul 8, 2026, 7:36 AM

Rahm Emanuel – Israel’s Flashing Red Warning Indicator

A Warning Delivered by a Vote Counter, Not a Moralizer Rahm Emanuel's forthcoming speech at Tel Aviv University — declaring that the U.S.–Israel relationship is "at a crossroads" and "cannot stand or survive as it has been" — is already...

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