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Juliana Geran Pilon

Juliana Geran Pilon is a senior fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization. Her latest book is An Idea Betrayed: Liberalism, Jews and the American Left, and her first, Notes From the Other Side of Night: From Communism to a Fragile Freedom, will be published with a new introduction in September 2026.

Shoshana Bryen
Opinion
We must remember
I write with a heavy heart the loss of a public persona, Israel advocate, write, devoted mother, and, above all, a loyal and lasting friend.
July 20, 2026
Juliana Geran Pilon
Meir Rosenne, former Israeli Ambassador to the United States and France, speaks at a conference on Israeli security, regional diplomacy, and international law and organized by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JPCA), at the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem, June 4, 2007. Photo by Dan Porges/Getty Images.
Opinion
Another memorial amid complacency, this one in Romania
The occasion for Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit to the Eastern European country was the reburial of 22 Jewish victims whose remains were recently identified.
July 1, 2026
Juliana Geran Pilon
Yehiel Leiter
Opinion
United we stand ...
America shares with Israel a commitment to genuine peaceful coexistence—not the Communist big-lie version or the extremist Islamic variety.
Dec. 19, 2024
Juliana Geran Pilon
Yehuda Amichai
Opinion
After the slaughter, wildpeace
Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai’s vision of a peace of the fields.
Feb. 4, 2024
Juliana Geran Pilon
Joseph Stalin. Credit: Public Domain Photo.
Opinion
Anti-Zionism and the Bolshevik jihad
Anti-Zionism, bolstered by an infamous czarist-era forgery, has served to cement an unholy alliance of Marxists, Islamists and progressives.
Dec. 20, 2023
Juliana Geran Pilon
A smartphone showing the logo of Harvard University. Credit: g0d4ather/Shutterstock.
Opinion
Where is the moral compass of the campus?
If Harvard cannot unequivocally condemn Hamas’s terrorism, we will know that it has abdicated its mission to preserve Western civilization.
Oct. 24, 2023
Juliana Geran Pilon
The leader of the Sweden Democrats, Jimmie Åkesson, on the way to the party leader debate, May 4, 2014. Photo: Frankie Fouganthin/Wikimedia
Opinion
A political reality check for Sweden
The Swedish left’s denial of the problems of crime and anti-Semitism are the source of its electoral problems.
Oct. 11, 2022
Juliana Geran Pilon
COVID-19 vaccines at a vaccination center in Tzfat on Feb. 14, 2021. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.
Opinion
The Pentagon should respect religious freedom
Common sense would indicate that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s vaccination decree should be rescinded—or at a minimum, that exemptions be approved.
July 19, 2022
Juliana Geran Pilon
A group of teenagers. Credit: Antonio Diaz/Shutterstock.
Opinion
Who am I?
The existential angst of budding adulthood takes on a whole new dimension in a world that has weaponized “identity” to the point of incoherence.
April 8, 2022
Juliana Geran Pilon
Jerry Greenfield (left) and Ben Cohen, founders of the Ben & Jerry's ice-cream company, Oct. 24, 2010. Credit: Dismas via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
The true tenets of Judaism repudiate, not endorse, BDS
Once Judaism and capitalism are conflated, left and right converge against humanity’s favorite scapegoat.
Aug. 18, 2021
Juliana Geran Pilon
Google
Opinion
The Google letter
A group called Jewish Diaspora in Tech has determined that the Palestinians deserve its allegiance, while Israel does not.
June 4, 2021
Juliana Geran Pilon
The Voice of America building in Washington, D.C., March 1, 2020. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
The voice of which America?
Only the most naive imagine that the international broadcasting organization called Voice of America speaks for us all.
Dec. 10, 2020
Juliana Geran Pilon