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Manfred Gerstenfeld

Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld is a senior research associate at the BESA Center and a former chairman of the Steering Committee of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He specializes in Israeli-Western European relations, anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, and is the author of “The War of a Million Cuts.”

The strengths and weaknesses of the Jewish state are hard to assess. It has a great deal of both hard and soft power, but underperforms diplomatically when it comes to combating anti-Israel propaganda.
A culture shock of this magnitude has not occurred in most Western societies since World War II. When the pandemic ends, societies will be quite different from what they were in the pre-coronavirus era.
A proposed Knesset bill, supported by Diaspora Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevich, would give Jews abroad a say in Israeli decision-making. Given the leanings of world Jewry today, this is a very bad idea.
The global health crisis is intensifying an anti-globalization process that was already well underway before the pandemic began, and that is likely to get stronger as unemployment rises in the West.
The two main issues to look at when analyzing the activities of the American Jewish billionaire are his damaging statements and actions against Jews and Israel, and the anti-Semitic attacks lodged at him.
The recent hiring of Tim Davie as the broadcasting corporation’s new director general is cause for optimism.
To expose the high-sounding, pseudo-moral claims of the allies of anti-Semitism, one need only ask how much these individuals have published about the death culture that permeates Palestinian society.
Once the critical danger to public health has passed, the global economy will have to be a top priority. Planning must begin now, as enormous government interventions will be necessary.
The conspiracy theories linking Jews and Israel to the coronavirus pandemic are new mutations of historical strains of anti-Semitic libels.