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Ronn Torossian

Ronn Torossian is an Israeli-American entrepreneur, digital and crisis communications expert, and author of For Immediate Release: Shape Minds, Build Brands and Deliver Results with Game-Changing Public Relations.

If Riyadh ultimately enters into the Abraham Accords, the consequences would be significant and structurally enduring for the Jewish business community and the world at large.
The communities and institutions that move first will set the terms of the next quarter-century. The ones that wait will spend that quarter-century being led by others.
The world keeps asking Israel to apologize for existing. The data has a different answer.
Those who entrust their survival to the conscience of others misunderstand the structure of history.
“If he wishes to kill me, to my mind he forfeits his right to exist—and this also applies to nations,” said Ze’ev Jabotinsky, a founder of Jewish self-defense.
We see where the world is going and the dangers for the Jewish people.
He delivered a stark truth back in 1936: “If you won’t eliminate the Diaspora, the Diaspora will eliminate you.”
In the United Kingdom, the Board of Deputies and other establishment Jewish organizations have failed this moment.
Like in the days of the “Altalena,” violent protests are being used to suppress the nationalist camp, this time under the banner of “saving democracy.”
It must be called out for what it is: Jew-hatred.
For years, we pleaded for federal funding to be used as leverage against institutions that refuse to protect their Jewish students.
Organizations like Students for Justice in Palestine exploit a university’s policies to harass Jewish students.