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Sep 4, 2026, 2:56 PM

Why is the UN gaslighting Israel about kites?

Imagine a guy who gets mad and whips a frisbee at someone at close range. She’s too late raising her arms to protect herself, and it hits her right in the mouth, knocks a tooth loose, and she winds...

Sep 3, 2026, 7:50 PM

The Forgotten Soldiers in the Forgotten War

Me (left) and members of my IDF combat medical extraction unit (Palmar) inside Gaza. Photo ©️ 2026, T. Book.

As the third anniversary of the October 7 massacres approaches, I find myself on my eleventh tour of duty in reserves with my PALMAR medical extraction unit. Most of my time has been spent on the Gaza and Lebanon...

Sep 2, 2026, 9:00 PM

Time to examine media role in propping up Israel-hate. As well as creating it

A week or so ago, I said in a social-media post that the towering edifice of lies and libels about Israel was collapsing. It certainly should be collapsing given the empirical evidence and irrefutable facts that constantly emerge about...

Aug 29, 2026, 9:26 AM

Constructing Peace / Constructing Images: AI and Human Endeavors

Constructing Peace

By Joe Nalven + ChatGPT + Claude What follows is a catalogue essay for an exhibition that was never mounted. It places an AI-generated image of Gaza reconstruction beside the Board of Peace, a body with a charter, a chairman,...

Domicela Heijmeriks

Aug 27, 2026, 3:30 PM

Seventy Kilometres of Guilt

(Shir Danieli via Pexels)

When simply going to the beach becomes a political judgement I sometimes think the beach today is a little like the ice used to be: it belongs to everyone and no one. On the ice, the usual rules governing land...

Aug 27, 2026, 2:20 PM

When Leadership Fails to Lead

A little more than a year ago a group of 80 Rabbis wrote a letter espousing their moral outrage for Israel’s behavior in Gaza, Yehuda and Shomron. The term people use for these rabbis is Orthodox. I have always...

Todd L. Pittinsky

Aug 27, 2026, 9:24 AM

Teach the Holocaust. Lose the Label

The word "genocide" was supposed to make evil unmistakable. Today, it does the opposite. Raphael Lemkin coined the term in to name the unthinkable—the Nazi extermination of European Jewry. Holocaust educators adopted it almost immediately as its organizing category, using...

Aug 26, 2026, 10:33 PM

‘Genocide! Genocide!’: Israel in the Accusing Age

How an accusation against Israel reaches the Jew In the language surrounding Israel and Gaza, evil no longer requires a rare event, for its signs proliferate faster than the crimes they claim to name. The gravest words circulate in advance,...

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Aug 25, 2026, 8:23 AM

The Match Has Hands

The West Bank is not approaching ignition by itself. Every “match” has a hand that strikes it—and an institution that sees the flame, possesses the power to intervene, and chooses whether to act. Major General Avi Bluth, the IDF’s Central...

Justine Johnston Hemmestad

Aug 25, 2026, 5:40 AM

Summer in Jerusalem

The Nameless One has very recently given a first-hand account of Jerusalem in today’s climate (literally). He reveals, “So far, the summer has been fantastic—not too hot, at least not in Jerusalem—and we are already entering the beautiful month...

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