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Moshe Phillips

Moshe Phillips, a veteran pro-Israel activist and author, is the national chairman of Americans For a Safe Israel (AFSI). A former board member of the American Zionist Movement, he previously served as national director of the U.S. division of Herut and worked with CAMERA in Philadelphia. He was also a delegate to the 2020 World Zionist Congress and served as editor of The Challenger, the publication of the Tagar Zionist Youth Movement. His op-eds and letters have been widely published in the United States and Israel.

This former U.S. State Department official is treated as if his past involvement in Mideast diplomacy makes him an expert on how to make peace today.
If a school’s leadership cannot bring themselves to genuinely condemn terrorism without context, then they lack a basic requirement for their jobs.
Professor Barry Trachtenberg doesn’t even try to hide his extremist views; instead, he wears them on his sleeve.
Einat Wilf also suggests linking humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip with a Palestinian peace pledge.
The editors of the new book certainly knew what they were getting when they included Raz Segal of Stockton University in New Jersey.
Far from being “trapped,” Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip found jobs in Israel, daily going back and forth, and spending their days there.
Derek Penslar, a professor of Jewish history at Harvard, recently signed a petition that slandered Israel as a country of “apartheid” and “Jewish supremacism.”
They never really cared whether Yasser Arafat ever fulfilled his obligations, including fighting terrorism or halting Palestinian incitement.
I wonder what historian Murray Friedman would think of what his center has become in the hands of his successors.
Why is an ostensibly Zionist organization pushing an Israeli anti-Zionist party?
Those who fought back against the Nazis were able to obtain guns from criminal sources and from contacts in the Polish resistance Home Army.
The Jewish community needs to take a long, hard look at the role that many Jewish academics have played, and are continuing to play, in influencing Jewish college students to side with the Palestinian Arabs over Israel.