Opinion

Their goal is to sever identity from peoplehood and peoplehood from sovereignty. Iranian Jews today are walking a tightrope similar to the one Soviet refuseniks walked decades ago.

Zionism is misunderstood and the Zionist movement is delegitimized when its advocates confuse the need for a Jewish state with the Jewish right to a state.

The discussion focused largely on transcending the need to ascertain whether certain violent acts fit the “narrow and highly technical realm of criminal law” and the legal definition of genocide.

Every time Israel has traded land for peace with enemies still committed to our destruction, we have paid in blood.

Israel’s willingness to act decisively and preemptively is sometimes misunderstood by outsiders but rarely questioned within the Jewish world.

Dresden was revenge against a defeated enemy. Gaza is self-defense against an enemy that still openly calls for Israel’s annihilation.

Victory requires more than military power. It demands moral clarity, strategic restraint, and a commitment to the values that underpin the Jewish state.

If the uranium economy is not dismantled now, the next facility won’t need time to enrich – it will only need time to detonate.

The open discrimination in the Holy Land is one that the world refuses to acknowledge. It denies Jews access to their holiest places and demonizes the one Jewish state for defending itself.

Given the two missteps Israel made in what was otherwise a golden moment of historic triumph, there is a sense that the job, is not done.