To Win the War of Ideas, Israel Must Be the ‘Underdog’ Again
Antisemitic stencil used to create signs on the SF State University campus. Photo: AMCHA Initiative. As humans, we instinctively root for the underdog. Movies and books exalt the underfunded,...
View ArticleThe Twisted Morals of Anti-Israel Jewish Students
“Israeli Apartheid Week” in May 2010 on the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus. Photo: AMCHA Initiative. It takes a certain kind of moral distortion to stand against Israel nowadays —...
View ArticleBroken Windows: How US Universities Encourage Hate Speech Against Jews and...
“Israeli Apartheid Week” in May 2010 on the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus. Photo: AMCHA Initiative. The facade of a building conveys the general state of affairs inside. If a...
View ArticleIsrael Activists Must Embrace Liberals, Not Shun Them
A Students for Justice in Palestine sign plastered on the UCLA campus. Photo: Twitter. A few days ago, a friend sent me a social justice video. It was completely unrelated to Israel and instead had to...
View ArticleAction, Not Apathy, Is Key to Assisting in the Zionist Project
Israel Independence Day. Photo: Wikipedia. At a recent Israel activism conference I was attending, a friend told me something puzzling: “You know, Leora, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) is not...
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Survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp arrive in Israel in 1945. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Six-year old Abraham Freiburg had fled with his mother and long entertained the notion that Tati — the...
View ArticleThe Truth About Breaking the Silence
The Breaking the Silence logo. Whenever someone tells me that they want to improve Israeli society, I’m all for it. I get excited about helping the Jewish state better itself. There’s still a lot to...
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