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Jun 11, 2026, 9:40 PM

Genocide Center’s Pattern Is Proof of Distortion

The Genocide Center's defense of my grandfather is not revealed by any single false claim. It is revealed by a pattern that never changes: every error, every omission, every ruling points in the same direction–only his innocence of being...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jun 9, 2026, 6:14 AM

America’s New Anti-Israel Left-Right Consensus

Fifteen years ago, both major American political parties treated Israel as a strategic asset in the Middle East. Gallup’s 2011 surveys showed clear majorities sympathizing more with Israelis than with Palestinians across Democratic and Republican ranks. By February 2026,...

Jun 8, 2026, 11:23 AM

Misery Metrics: Gaza Edition

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk ( AI)

If the situation were not so serious, it would be very funny. Having advocated for Israel for more than a decade, I became very familiar with the narratives promoted by Gaza's Arab leadership, activists, media outlets, and supporters around the...

Eliyahu V. Sapir

Jun 8, 2026, 10:17 AM

From conflict to crime?

TL;DR: Academic attention to Israel rose sharply after October 7, but the share of publications using severe accusation frames barely moved. The deeper shift was conceptual: legal-moral terms such as genocide, war crimes, collective punishment, and international law gained...

Domicela Heijmeriks

Jun 6, 2026, 9:40 PM

From Genocide to ‘Virtually Everyone’

How a handful of videos became evidence for millions of people I spent some time opening the links in a recent essay by Dutch blogger Chris Klomp. There were quite a few of them. Amnesty International was there, as were genocide...

Jun 2, 2026, 6:54 PM

Rwanda’s genocide had a name. Thirty-two years later, too many still won’t use it

On April 7, 1994, a genocide began. It would last one hundred days. By the end, approximately one million people lay dead in Rwanda — the vast majority of them Tutsi — killed at a speed and ferocity that...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 31, 2026, 11:27 AM

Sánchez: The Head of Spain’s Corruption Snake

On May 27, 2026, agents from the Central Operative Unit of the Civil Guard stormed the national headquarters of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party in Madrid. They were searching for records tied to illegal financing, bribery, and an alleged...

May 31, 2026, 9:10 AM

Two Lenses Through Which Many View the Gaza War

Recently, I exchanged a series of emails with a fellow Brookline Town Meeting member who is convinced that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Neither of us changed the other's mind. But as the discussion unfolded, I realized that...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 26, 2026, 6:55 AM

France: A Future Islamic Nuclear Power?

Shiite Muslim women march toward the French Consulate during a rally against French President Emmanuel Macron and the republishing of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad they deem blasphemous, in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

France stands at an existential demographic, cultural, and geostrategic crossroads that could permanently transform Europe and reorder global power. Reliable estimates place the Muslim population at 6 to 7 million—nearly 10 percent of the total. That share has exploded...

Benjamin Birely

May 24, 2026, 11:49 PM

How I Became a ‘PhD Candidate in Genocide’

A little over a month ago, on Yom HaAtzmaut (Israeli Independence Day), I glanced at my phone on my way home. I hadn’t planned on being in Israel for Israel’s 78th birthday. I should have been back in Italy...

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