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Asaf Romirowsky

Asaf Romirowsky

Asaf Romirowsky is the executive director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East and the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA).

Even so, terrorists in the Gaza Strip will not simply abandon their jihadist essence; doing so would strip them of their very raison d’être.
Normalcy and Jewish self-identity have become part of the struggle for the Diaspora as it comes to terms with what the Zionist enterprise built, warts and all.
It’s worth framing the historical conversation on the document with the use of firsthand observers.
So warped are the perceptions of Western academics that even American Jewish rabbinical students are effectively shilling for an Islamist terror organization committed to killing Jews.
American Jews have once again been forced to choose between their Jewish identity and a “pluralism” that generates intolerance.
The binary view of the Arab-Israeli conflict that has prevailed for decades may have shifted following the Abraham Accords. But if so, what comes next?
Anti-Semitism is the only form of hate speech that cancel culture has no problem tolerating, while pro-Israel stances remain occasions to cancel those who dare express it.
The necessity of a Jewish nation was a foundational premise for the founding fathers of Zionism, no matter what their political persuasion. That understanding was once shared by most American Jews.
The American Jewish left has once again fallen in line with the Palestinian demand that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict always be conflated to a problem of “occupation,” regardless of facts or history.