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Yisrael Medad is an American-born Israeli journalist, author and former director of educational programming at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center. A graduate of Yeshiva University, he made aliyah in 1970 and has since held key roles in Israeli politics, media and education. A member of Israel’s Media Watch executive board, he has contributed to major publications, including The Los Angeles Times, The Jerusalem Post and International Herald Tribune. He and his wife, who have five children, live in Shilo.

While all they are doing is talking, the true evil is emboldening those who hate, channeled through computers and other online instruments.
Freedom of worship near the Western Wall depends on a mix of older history and newer developments, both amid the ruckus of who believes what.
Rejecting buffer zones around synagogues is not about free speech. It’s about a hate-filled and false anti-Jewish narrative through what leftist circles call “‘resistance.”
Highlighting a few basic irrationalities, historical corruptions and misleading “facts” should illustrate to younger Jewish generations that the ideology they face is not new.
Amid a conversation on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, one point was clear: Throughout the centuries, the Jewish connection to Israel was, and remains, a subject of great ignorance.
The corruption of Jewish legacy customs, not to mention religious practices, is kinetic.
Who was Lord Byron, and what was his relationship to the Jewish state, other than the recent storm that has brewed in Israel?
American Christian leaders and influencers toured the ancient site of Shiloh as part of perhaps the largest public-diplomacy mission in Israel’s history to express solidarity and support.
He is “a Zionist. I keep saying it. He’s not interested in justice—just in looking morally superior while cashing in on our struggle,” said Palestinian activist and organizer Nerdeen Kiswani.
No one deserves to be frightened in any city. It is perfectly legal to live in New York as it is to reside in Shiloh or Hebron.
The activist has continued to adopt more extreme positions. Yet as we know, once one enters that arena, the competition to stand out simply causes one to become even more extreme.
The coming danger is less the anti-Israel beliefs expressed, but rather, that opponents of an Israel-American alliance promote their views using old-time tropes and memes.