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Stop Saying Arafat’s Cairo Birth Debunks Palestinian Identity

Arafat’s Cairo birth is often used as a shortcut to dismiss Palestinian identity. But the same lo...
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When Strategy Hits Home in the North

When Strategy Hits Home in the North

A resident of northern Israel describes how decisions made in Washington and Tehran shape daily l...
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Human Stories for Gazans, Israelis Die and the World Looks Away

Human Stories for Gazans, Israelis Die and the World Looks Away

International institutions and major media outlets respond to Israeli and Gazan casualties with t...
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Israeli Media Repeated Jab’a Claims Without Independent Verification

Israeli Media Repeated Jab’a Claims Without Independent Verification

Israeli media repeated sweeping claims about Jab’a—burned homes, structural arson, mass assault—w...
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Jab'a: What Really Happened. According to the Evidence

Jab'a: What Really Happened. According to the Evidence

Despite sweeping claims of arson, pogrom, and mass assault, the physical record from Jab’a is sur...
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Israeli NGOs: The Pogrom They Saw and the One They Didn't

Israeli NGOs: The Pogrom They Saw and the One They Didn't

Israeli NGOs used maximal moral language to describe Jewish attackers in Jab’a, yet framed Hamas’...
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How Israeli NGOs Constructed the Jab’a Narrative Without Supporting Evidence

How Israeli NGOs Constructed the Jab’a Narrative Without Supporting Evidence

NGOs described the Jab’a attack using terms—pogrom, terror, burned homes—that their own photograp...
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How Arabic-Language Outlets Constructed the Jab’a Narrative

How Arabic-Language Outlets Constructed the Jab’a Narrative

Arabic-language outlets treated the Jab’a attack not as an event to verify but as a symbol to rei...
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Before the Narrative Hardens: Watching the Jab’a Video Carefully

Before the Narrative Hardens: Watching the Jab’a Video Carefully

The only continuous footage from Jab’a contradicts one of the central claims repeated after the a...
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Israel’s Death Penalty Paradox: On the Books, Used Once

Israel’s Death Penalty Paradox: On the Books, Used Once

Israel already has the legal authority to execute terrorists, yet its institutions refuse to use ...
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What Palestinians Actually Say When You Listen

What Palestinians Actually Say When You Listen

Western activists claim to speak for Palestinians, but many Palestinians describe realities, hope...
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The Gulf Has Moved On — And Palestine Is No Longer the Arab Priority

The Gulf Has Moved On — And Palestine Is No Longer the Arab Priority

Gulf governments now treat the Palestinian cause as a diplomatic formality rather than a strategi...
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The 2025 Sovereignty Movement Conference Highlighting a National Turning Point

The 2025 Sovereignty Movement Conference Highlighting a National Turning Point

Israel’s sovereignty movement is no longer fringe. The 2025 Sovereignty Conference crystallized a...
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The Staged Gaza Aid Video the Media Ignored

The Staged Gaza Aid Video the Media Ignored

The media ignored a video of a Gaza boy being handed food for the camera—then having it taken awa...
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A Comment, a Siren, and the Story Behind Uneven War Reporting

A Comment, a Siren, and the Story Behind Uneven War Reporting

A single online comment shifted my focus from rockets over Israel to the deeper pattern shaping g...
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From Planting to Power: Birth of the Sovereignty Movement in Israel

From Planting to Power: Birth of the Sovereignty Movement in Israel

For decades, Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar worked on the margins—planting trees, reclaiming hi...
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The New Sovereignty Wave: What the Bills Reveal

The New Sovereignty Wave: What the Bills Reveal

Israel’s sovereignty push is accelerating. A cluster of bills—territorial, legal, procedural, and...
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A Look at Neo Nazi Content Growing on Substack

A Look at Neo Nazi Content Growing on Substack

A Substack newsletter openly glorifies Hitler, calls for genocide, and grows its audience uncheck...
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I Wrote About Missing Syrian Women. Then the Antisemitism Crawled Out.

I Wrote About Missing Syrian Women. Then the Antisemitism Crawled Out.

A report on abducted Syrian women was derailed by classic antisemitic lies. Tracing the comments ...
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The Alawites were Told to Lay Down Their Weapons. Then the Massacres Began.

The Alawites were Told to Lay Down Their Weapons. Then the Massacres Began.

When Assad’s regime collapsed, the Alawites laid down their weapons in good faith. What followed ...
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They Tested Congress for “Loyalty to Palestine.” The Results Shocked Them.

They Tested Congress for “Loyalty to Palestine.” The Results Shocked Them.

A pro Palestinian lobby group graded U.S. lawmakers on their support for “Palestinian justice” af...
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The Oct 7th Litmus Test for Western Leaders

The Oct 7th Litmus Test for Western Leaders

Their own posts tell the story: early condemnation of Hamas quickly gave way to pressure on Israe...
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Yacov Pedhatzur-Wiedhopf: How the Real Two State Plan Was Abandoned

Yacov Pedhatzur-Wiedhopf: How the Real Two State Plan Was Abandoned

For a century, the world has pushed a fantasy two state solution west of the Jordan River. The on...
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Kedar’s Emirates Plan: A Tribal Alternative to the Failed PA Model

Kedar’s Emirates Plan: A Tribal Alternative to the Failed PA Model

Prof. Mordechai Kedar argues that Arab tribal structures, not Western state models, hold the key ...
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Hostages, Trump, and Chaos: Israel’s Breaking Point

Hostages, Trump, and Chaos: Israel’s Breaking Point

Two hostage forums, two opposite demands, and a former U.S. president stepping into the center of...
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After Oslo, Can Palestinian Arabs Shift to a New Political System?

After Oslo, Can Palestinian Arabs Shift to a New Political System?

Senior Arab affairs correspondent Pinhas Inbari argues that neither the Village Leagues nor the E...
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How the Village Leagues Model Could Reshape Governance in Judea and Samaria

How the Village Leagues Model Could Reshape Governance in Judea and Samaria

Security expert Dan Diker argues that Oslo inverted Israel’s legitimacy and empowered the PLO. He...
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Amir Kochavi’s Holocaust Day Speech Crossed a Line. Here’s Why It Matters

Amir Kochavi’s Holocaust Day Speech Crossed a Line. Here’s Why It Matters

Hod Hasharon’s mayor used a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony to accuse Israel of “atrocities.” ...
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How to Respond When Israelis Accuse Israel of “Committing a Holocaust”

How to Respond When Israelis Accuse Israel of “Committing a Holocaust”

An Israeli man accused Israel of committing a Holocaust against Palestinians. Instead of blocking...
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How did a hated Alawite get to be president of a Muslim Syria?

How did a hated Alawite get to be president of a Muslim Syria?

A young Alawite Syrian explains how his marginalized community ended up ruling a Sunni majority c...
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Meet Yusef, an Alawite Syrian who escaped the atrocities

Meet Yusef, an Alawite Syrian who escaped the atrocities

Yusef, an Alawite Syrian, fled his village after militants murdered his relatives. His story reve...
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They’re Emptying Alawite Villages. This Is Ethnic Cleansing.

They’re Emptying Alawite Villages. This Is Ethnic Cleansing.

Alawite Syrians are being expelled from their homes in Hama, Homs, Latakia and Tartus. Twelve vil...
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Victory and Resilience alongside Despair: Passover 2025

Even in a year marked by loss, division and ongoing trauma, the simple act of gathering for the S...
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Author John Matthews: Another Outsider tells Israel how to Make Peace!

Author John Matthews: Another Outsider tells Israel how to Make Peace!

John Matthews’ “Ultimate, Definitive Peace Plan” repeats the same well meaning but misguided assu...
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Mercy vs Justice: Why the Hostage Deal Isn’t Just About Israel

Mercy vs Justice: Why the Hostage Deal Isn’t Just About Israel

Sara K. Eisen argues that Israel’s hostage deal is not only a national dilemma but a global test ...
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Why Even Opponents of “Transfer” Should Consider Trump’s Gaza Plan

Why Even Opponents of “Transfer” Should Consider Trump’s Gaza Plan

Trump’s proposal to temporarily relocate Gazans to Egypt or Jordan sparked outrage — but what if ...
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"Bring them Home" vs "Total Victory": Inside Israel's Hostage Debate

"Bring them Home" vs "Total Victory": Inside Israel's Hostage Debate

Two groups of hostage families experience the same pain and draw opposite conclusions: stop the w...
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Israel's "Sophie's Choice" Hostage Deal: Impossible Decisions

Israel's "Sophie's Choice" Hostage Deal: Impossible Decisions

Israel’s leaders are being asked to choose between saving hostages now and risking future massacr...
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The Barakeh, Former MK Who Praised Armed Resistance — and the System That Looked Away

The Barakeh, Former MK Who Praised Armed Resistance — and the System That Looked Away

Mohammad Barakeh openly praises violent resistance against Israel — yet Israeli institutions repe...
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Meet Daniel the Settler

Meet Daniel the Settler

Daniel lives where the Bible unfolded — and where he scans the road for danger every time he driv...
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“Expert” Geographer Erases Israel: A Two Part Examination of Matt Rosenberg’s Claims

“Expert” Geographer Erases Israel: A Two Part Examination of Matt Rosenberg’s Claims

Two articles by a National Geographic–affiliated geographer present a distorted picture of Israel...
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An Israeli Protester Compared the IDF to Nazis. Should we Ignore it?

An Israeli Protester Compared the IDF to Nazis. Should we Ignore it?

At a small Haifa demonstration, an activist shouted that IDF soldiers are “Nazis.” Was it a momen...
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“Send Them to Gaza”? The Knesset Just Made It Law.

“Send Them to Gaza”? The Knesset Just Made It Law.

Israel has passed a law allowing the deportation of certain family members of terrorists. With Ga...
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Walking the Dogs as the Skies Threaten War: A Haifa War Diary

Walking the Dogs as the Skies Threaten War: A Haifa War Diary

A Haifa resident confronts the strange duality of life under threat — the as if normal routines o...
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Driving Through History: Reading Sobin’s Book as War Looms Over the North

Driving Through History: Reading Sobin’s Book as War Looms Over the North

Clifford Sobin turns Israel’s northern border communities into living, breathing characters. His ...
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No, Haifa Is Not Being Evacuated: Debunking a Viral Lie

No, Haifa Is Not Being Evacuated: Debunking a Viral Lie

A viral TikTok clip claimed Haifa and Tel Aviv were being evacuated. They weren’t. Here’s how one...
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When Jew Hatred is a Character in a Novel: A Review of Daniel Silva’s The Order

When Jew Hatred is a Character in a Novel: A Review of Daniel Silva’s The Order

Daniel Silva’s The Order turns the origins of Christian Jew hatred into a central character. It’s...
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An innocent Gazan civilian who hates Hamas - Really!

An innocent Gazan civilian who hates Hamas - Really!

A Gazan man insists he hates Hamas, yet his own words reveal how deeply Israel remains the defaul...
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