After more than a decade writing Judean Rose, Iâm stepping backâfor nowâand reflecting on what the column has meant to me and my readers.
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After more than a decade writing Judean Rose, Iâm stepping backâfor nowâand reflecting on what the column has meant to me and my readers.
A grandmother reflects on a childâs quiet acceptance of warâand the small moments that help her make sense of it.
She didnât ask about rockets. She didnât ask about enemies. She just wanted to know if she could go to school.
Israeli writer dreads a Zoom meeting amid war alerts and sirens. ChatGPT offers polite exit lines that bring relief.
I had a Zoom meeting with someone in the U.S. this week, and I spent more time preparing what Iâd say if a siren went off than what Iâd say about the actual work.
I even wrote myself a little script with some AI help. Polite, professional ways to say: I have to go. Now.
How media language shapes perception: a 12-year-old in Israel called a teen, while Hamas counts teen fighters as âchildren.â
A look at the contradictions of Western progressivism: LGBTQ rights, womenâs freedomâand support for regimes that crush both.
Islamist movements like Hamas and the Islamic Republic adhere to a religious code that criminalizes the very people Western activists claim to defend. Which begs the question: if your political identity is built around protecting sexual minorities, why are you marching for a movement that hangs them? If your political identity is all about empowering women, why do you support a regime that rules through repression?
Tucker trolls Mike Huckabee with relentless Gish gallop lies on Jews, Israel, and Netanyahu. A bad-faith attack met with patience and facts.
From creationist tactics to modern smears: Tucker's Gish gallop on Huckabee was exhaustingâlies flying faster than facts could catch up. Huckabee represented with class. My column unpacks why it's cowardice, not debate:Â Thoughts?
White in one headline, targeted in the next. A reflection on conditional whiteness and enduring Jewish peoplehood.
Jewish minority status is granted or revoked based upon convenienceâdenied when seeking inclusion, weaponized when expressing distinct identity.
Western leaders assume shared values with Islam. From Hamas to Washington scandals, that illusion continues to backfire on the well-meaning West.
âInstead of assuming that all people, everywhere, are the same, the West needs the courage to look straight at where Islam diverges from Judaism and Christianityâon alcohol, on âresistance,â on diplomacy and deception, on supremacy, on the status of non-Muslimsâand deal with reality as it is, not as it wishes it were.â
A Grammy speech, a sweeping moral claim, and what happens when âno one is illegal on stolen landâ is tested against Israel.
The line worked precisely because it sounded finished, as though nothing more needed to be said. After all, it was Eilish saying this, and Eilish is famous. That, apparently, was enough to give authority to a statement that makes no sense whatsoever.
At a time of moral inversion, Michele Bachmann remains a clear-eyed friend of Israel, unafraid to speak plainly.
âWhen the haters peddle awful lies about the Jews, the rare thing that steadies you is a friend who speaks plainlyâsomeone willing to describe reality without euphemism, and to risk doing so, even at a high cost.' Michele Bachmann is one such friend.Â
Trump claims credit for Israelâs Iron Dome at Davos. A look at funding, power, and why Jewish self-defense should never be conditional.
Iron Dome is Israeli technology. Funding doesnât equal ownership. And Jewish self-defense shouldnât be treated as a presidential favor.
Trump claims "peace" in the Middle East, but 78 Hamas ceasefire violations since Oct. 10 expose the reality: war persists, Hamas regroups.
âPresident Trump keeps touting the peace he brought to the Middle East. But if this is peace, Iâd hate to see war. Though actually, Iâve seen war and Iâm still seeing warâbecause we still have war. Since the ceasefire took effect on October 10, there have been 78 Hamas violations of the ceasefire.â
Two borders with Gaza. Jolie blamed Israel anywayâand now she has stood at Rafah in Egypt. And still no apology to the Jews.
Two borders. One ignored. Jolie blamed Israel for trapping Gazansâthen visited Rafah from Egypt. Donât hold your breath for an apology.
Book review and interview with Rafael Medoff on The Road to October 7: Hamas, the Holocaust, and the Eternal War against the Jews.
Transcript: Tucker Carlson and Piers Morgan debate U.S. aid to Israel and what âallyâ means. A Judean Rose response to the new rightâs hostility.
âWhile we aren't free to say what we think, Vance is. Tucker is his friend. It's okay to listen to his hate speech and conspiracy theories. Which makes me wonder if Vance thinks that, in theory, it would be okay to laugh at the victims of Bondi Beach or to listen to someone laugh at that, as if that were a totally normal thing to do. Nothing worthy of remark. Because freedom.â
Bondi Beach shows what happens when Jews are murdered and no one will say so.
âAlbanese had no difficulty recognizing a Palestinian state that does not exist and never has. Yet he could not publicly acknowledge that Jews were murdered because they were Jews.â
Paul Simon signed a letter supporting Marwan Barghoutiâs release. This column explains Barghoutiâs murders and why Simonâs stance is so troubling.
âMr. Simon, I know I shouldnât be surprised you threw your support behind a murderer â all the cool kids are doing it. But somehow I thought someone as obviously brilliant as yourself knew better than to listen to the lies about Barghoutiâs victimhood. That you would know enough to look into the matter and find out why Barghouti is really in prison. Not because Israel is persecuting him, but because he is a stone-cold killer.â