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Jul 16, 2026, 10:05 PM

For the Love of Israel, Netanyahu Must End ‘Settler Violence’

Please read this article carefully and share it with people who support Israel, especially those who are concerned about settler violence.

Use it to make a clear pro-Israel case: condemning settler violence is not surrendering to Israel’s enemies. It is defending Israel’s laws, values, international standing, and the safety of Jews worldwide.

After reading it, please write to Prime Minister Netanyahu and urge him to enforce the law decisively. Then share the article wherever this issue is being discussed.

I have written a series of articles defending Israel against accusations of genocide, apartheid, colonialism, and collective punishment. I stand by every one of them. Israel has the right to defend itself against Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and the...

Jul 14, 2026, 4:40 AM

Brussels Wants to Sanction Israel. Its Own Companies May Pay the Price.

The danger is not in the vote in Brussels. It is in how compliance departments will implement it. As the European Commission prepares to lay out trade options before the bloc’s foreign ministers meet on July 13, the debate in...

Jul 13, 2026, 7:18 PM

The Growing Dangers of Ben-Gvir and His Hilltop Followers

In recent days, articles in the Washington Post and in The Guardian make claims about rampant anti-Catholic actions in the West Bank and Old City led by hilltop settlers and rightwing Zionist youth groups. This followed a sensationalized story...

Jul 13, 2026, 6:23 PM

There is nothing to solve

Ma'ale Adumim, unsustainable since 1975. (Photo: Davidmosberg, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Annexationists and two-staters agree on one thing: the status quo must go. Thirty years of evidence says otherwise

Charlotte Mendel

Jul 12, 2026, 9:46 PM

Know thy enemy. My second shift of protective presence

Photo by Charlotte Mendel 2026

I cannot sleep the night before my second shift. I throw up around midnight. Nerves, and too much vodka. Why does it fill me with horror to go back? Most of the time I am filming kids younger than...

Alexander Lutsenko

Jul 12, 2026, 9:42 PM

Russia wages a battle against Israel over Jewish heritage in Judea and Samaria

Russia’s New Front Against Israel: The Struggle Over Jewish Heritage in Judea and Samaria. Illustration made with AI.

Russia has found another way to challenge Israel, and this time the battlefield is not military, diplomatic, or economic. It is archaeological. On July 9, 2026, the Rescue Archaeology Center of the Institute for the History of Material Culture of...

Jul 12, 2026, 7:12 AM

Stop Turning Israel Into America’s Political Stage

Israel welcomes debate. Israelis argue with each other every day. They criticize their leaders. They question Israeli policies. That’s what democracies do. But there is a profound difference between criticism born from shared responsibility and criticism that turns Israel into...

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 11, 2026, 5:27 PM

Hardly Anything Left to Protect: Day 2 of Protective Presence

On Thursday I traveled to the West Bank with Alon, a young guy who’s pursuing a PHD in the USA and is just in Israel on a visit. We both met in Givatayim to pick up a car that...

Jul 10, 2026, 1:42 PM

What is the ‘settler violence’ actually about?

“It’s self defense.” “It’s revenge.” “There’s two sides to the story but the media only shows one side.” “It’s a small number of at-risk youth.” “The military is failing to enforce the law and needs to try harder.” “The military is complicit.” “The vast majority...

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