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Daniel Friedman

Daniel Friedman is a professor of political science at Touro University and the author of the forthcoming book, No Greater Proof: 500 Years of Christianity’s Love-Hate Relationship With Israel.

If the current negotiations convince even a portion of the American public that the United States is pursuing its own interests rather than serving someone else’s, they will have achieved something.
In attempting to delegitimize a peoplehood, they are undermining the very basis upon which they themselves continue to claim an identity.
If anti-Zionists insist that their animus is directed at Zion, then let the word stand. Let it carry the full weight of what is being done in its name.
Let the superpower fight its own superpower battles.
Israel doesn’t need to be told to get with the program. It wrote the program.
Christian-Jewish relations have been impacted throughout history by the Catholic Church’s responses to major technological shifts.
It’s tempting to ask why protesters aren’t filling the streets to push measures against the wars in Sudan or the Congo. That’s what they want you to do.
This Yom Hashoah, let’s promote Jewish survival.