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Yisrael Medad

Yisrael Medad

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.

Lara Alqasem, 22, was denied entry to Israel for graduate work on Oct. 2, 2018, because of her active BDS involvement while a student at the University of Florida. Credit: Screenshot.
Opinion
The wrong ‘rights’ narrative
We have the right to speak out on campuses without fear, no less than any other student group. And we have the right to defend those rights, champion them and promote them.
Oct. 18, 2018
Yisrael Medad
Eli (Google Maps)
Opinion
The media needs to focus on the whole picture
There is good news in Judea and Samaria. There are almost 20,000 Arab workers in Jewish businesses earning, in most cases, twice what they would earn in their own local jobs. Israeli and Palestinian Authority ambulances and paramedic crews do treat all injured, no matter what origin.
Oct. 14, 2018
Yisrael Medad
Ze'ev Jabotinsky
Opinion
Presuming too much about Ze’ev Jabotinsky
First, it was Brenda Katten appearing in a column in “The Jerusalem Post” on Aug. 10 and then Asher Kozma, former head of Betar Australia, on Sept. 21 in that same paper. They both are quite sure what Ze’ev Jabotinsky would think of the recently legislated “Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People Law.”
Oct. 5, 2018
Yisrael Medad
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas addresses the U.N. General Assembly, Sept. 27, 2018. Photo by Cia Pak/U.N. Photo.
Opinion
The United Nations: Abbas’s Palestinian playground
Quite simply, Mahmoud Abbas, elected leader of the Palestinian Authority in 2009 (with no elections since then) is engaged in national-identity negation.
Oct. 2, 2018
Yisrael Medad
Opinion
Jordan’s King at the UN
Jordan’s king has presented, as in the past, a false description of history and of current political affairs. And on that basis, suggest “solutions” that can only weaken Israel’s security, its rightful legal and historical claims, in addition to its future needs.
Sep. 26, 2018
Yisrael Medad
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas addresses the U.N. General Assembly in September 2015. Credit: U.N. Photo/Cia Pak.
Opinion
Oslo Accords’ first quarter-century ... and their next
Has today’s Israel overcome the trap that was the document called the Oslo Accords? Not yet.
Sep. 17, 2018
Yisrael Medad
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas (right) and King Abdullah of Jordan during a welcoming ceremony in Ramallah on Nov. 21, 2011. Photo by Issam Rimawi/Flash90.
Opinion
King Abdullah, let’s keep the geography correct
If opponents of Israel’s administration of Judea and Samaria—what they refer to as a “West Bank” (and where is that other “East Bank,” if not in Jordan)—based their disapproval in part on a so-called “demographic threat,” they cannot easily, and shouldn’t be permitted to, dismiss the demographic reality of Jordan as a “Palestinian” entity.
Sep. 12, 2018
Yisrael Medad
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) building in Rafah, the southern Gaza Strip, July 26, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Opinion
UNRWA is Jew-exclusive
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) was created to address “the problem of the relief of Palestine refugees of all communities.” So why has the organization excluded Jews displaced from Arab hostilities prior to Israel’s 1948 War of Independence?
Sep. 2, 2018
Yisrael Medad
Former British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Credit: RevolutionBahrainMC/YouTube via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Who and what Jeremy Corbyn really is (not an anti-Semite)
His anti-Zionism and his retelling of the “history” of how Britain betrayed the Arabs is what allows Arabs to mortar and rocket Israel, shoot at its soldiers and civilians, and kill and maim Jews.
Aug. 31, 2018
Yisrael Medad
Martin Peretz
Opinion
Martin Peretz has been had
Israel has the right to “settle” therein, even if the Arabs and others claim that Israel’s declared sovereignty is null and void.
Aug. 28, 2018
Yisrael Medad
Opinion
A ‘Dear Yossi’ letter ...
Perhaps Jews have no national rights, no Eretz Yisrael history, and all this post-Balfour Declaration history has no relevance or validity?
Aug. 27, 2018
Yisrael Medad
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely at the Jewish state’s Foreign Ministry headquarters in Jerusalem. Credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90.
Opinion
Assumptions, premises, presumptions ... and Israel
Pro-Israel public diplomacy, or “hasbara,” has been the subject of several attacks seeking to highlight its failure to properly deal with Israel’s poor standing with several target audiences.
Aug. 20, 2018
Yisrael Medad
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