Analysis
Friday, August 15th 2025
Yoni Ben Menachem Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, Aug. 10, 2025 “Hizbullah is buying time to chip away at the government’s disarmament decision.” Hizbullah is striving to preserve its power as the Lebanese government moves to disarm it, calibrating pressure while avoiding direct confrontation with civilians or the army. Israeli security sources […]
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Edward Gabriel The Hill, Aug. 13, 2025 “By launching this process, Lebanon’s leaders have sent a clear message to their citizens and to the world: They are committed to national unity, the rule of law and regional stability.” Last week, the Lebanese government made a historic move toward restoring full authority over its territory […]
Laila Bassam Reuters, Aug. 7, 2025 “Iran’s Foreign minister Abbas Araghchi told Iranian state TV on Wednesday that this was not the first time attempts have been made to disarm the Iran-backed group, adding that the final decision rests with the group itself.” The United States has presented Lebanon with a proposal for disarming […]
Jacques Neriah Israel Today, July 27, 2025 “Buoyed by a landslide victory in municipal elections, Hezbollah continued to defy both the Lebanese government and the US.” The recent events in Syria—specifically the massacre carried out against the Druze community in Sweida and the subsequent flare-up between Israel and Syria—have overshadowed the tectonic changes unfolding in […]
Thursday, August 14th 2025
Mathilda Heller Jerusalem Post, July 29, 2025 “… groups such as the Brandeis Center and Physicians Against Antisemitism highlight the fact that Decolonizing Therapy identifies Zionism as a root cause of mental illness.” Antisemitism is becoming increasingly more prevalent within therapy and therapeutic spaces. The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law recently wrote […]
Dave Gordon National Post, Aug. 10, 2025 “Traumatic invalidation can cause mental health issues in the short term and long term.” After the Hamas-led terror attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, Dr. Miri Bar-Halpern, a psychology instructor at Harvard Medical School, wrote on an Israeli Facebook group offering therapy resources to those affected by the attacks. […]
Ariel Harkman The American Spectator, July 15, 2025 “This is not old hatred in new clothes. It’s something different — Post-Identity Antisemitism.” In October 2023, as Hamas live-streamed the mass murder and abduction of Israeli civilians, anti-Israel protests erupted across Western capitals within hours. In New York, London, Sydney, and Paris, rallies cheered “resistance” even as footage […]
Neal B. Freeman National Review, Aug. 12, 2025 “I don’t know whether it’s that the ADL has stopped issuing screechy alarms or that I have stopped paying any attention to them. Whichever the case, the hour is late. The hardened reality is that antisemitism is everywhere now and the obligation falls to us to confront it.” I […]
Wednesday, August 13th 2025
Alish P. Joy The Week, Aug. 4, 2025 “We cannot normalize a society where hatred towards Jews is treated as political discourse.” France, home to Europe’s largest Jewish population, is once again wrestling with a surge in antisemitic sentiment that has alarmed political leaders, Jewish communities and rights groups alike. While antisemitism has long […]
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Simone Rodan-Benzaquen WSJ, Aug. 6, 2025 “France’s humanitarian duty is real. But so is its duty to protect citizens—especially Jews, who are facing hostility without recent precedent.” A 25-year-old woman from Gaza strolled across the manicured campus of the Lille Institute of Political Studies late last month, smiling for French television cameras. Nour Atalla seemed to be the […]
Elizabeth Bryant DW, Aug. 1, 2025 “It’s an opportunistic decision. It cements the divorce with the Jewish community in France, considerably chills relations with Israel and the United States and reinforces Hamas.” Mohammed Iriqat has witnessed first-hand France’s shifting stance on the crisis in the Gaza Strip, from the taunts he once received for wearing a kaffiyeh, […]
Alan Kessel The Hill, Aug. 8, 2025 “… recognition is not a throwaway gesture. Once granted, it is almost impossible to reverse.” The geopolitics of the Middle East is shifting quickly, and not for the better. What began as a solo act of French diplomatic theatre has now become a chorus of ill-considered posturing. […]
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