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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.

American Jewry is embattled with itself. Establishment vs. non-establishment, young vs. old, progressive vs. non-militant.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib could have visited her 90-year-old grandmother and after leaving continued to excoriate Israel. But no, she had to use her as an extra in her guerrilla theater production.
Ideological formulations can rarely by deconstructed and countered. Their importance becomes less factual and more psychological.
The Michigan congresswoman is not only pushing a cover-up of the historical record, she is fashioning an old message into a new narrative form: It is that thanks to the Arabs that Jews have a home.
Diplomats and negotiators are still dredging up an idea that not only has been tried and found wanting, and not only has been consistently rejected but is irrelevant to the political, economic and security reality—and simply will not work.
We have an unreliable professor of Middle East politics. And if we add in his apparent political bias, we realized we’re getting “dumped” on.
You have distilled Judaism, altered it, framed it as a reflection of your own politics, rather than having your politics influenced by Judaism.
During the AIPAC conference in Washington, for the second time in two weeks, a missile was “accidentally” launched from the Gaza Strip—and this time destroyed a residential home in the middle of Israel.
Mostly on social-media platforms, but in mainstream media outlets as well, Jews have been trying to extend her support, justify her spew and ratchet up the anti-Semitic poison.
Food, it appears, can become an instrument of a political struggle.
What we are witnessing is the rise of a consortium that reaches out even to adversarials as long as the common enemy—the Jew as Zionist—is pummeled, trampled and done in.
The complaint asserts that “since biblical times, Judea and Samaria have been part and parcel of the Land of Israel, as reflected in the Hebrew Bible, the Christian Bible, and an unbroken line of historical and archaeological sources spanning more than 3,000 years.”