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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.

This inverse positioning of history in the past 150 years rings hollow.
Diaspora Jewish leadership should know what the term “illegal” intends. They should know what is coming, for it has always come in a variety of guises.
With Zionism and Israel, things are turned on their head. There is no logic.
All of this is not a fairy tale but very real history. Jews know what it is.
It contradicts the intention of the League of Nations and makes no sense in the geopolitical reality.
Professor Raef Zreik employs terminology understood by radical progressive forces that enables them to justify their anti-Zionism. He is wielding a double-edged sword.
Like others before them, their influence will wane, and they will fade away.
We’re being confronted by a paradigm of a new round of show trials, this time led by Jewish anti-Zionists.
Those with talent went into academia and the legal system, as well as the police, and, of course, the army. This continues to be a problem.
There were other battles in the early Jewish state—internal elements such as economic and societal concerns, ideological and practical.
The choice is theirs: They can take advantage of Trump’s initiative or remain committed to their century-old rejectionism.
Are we to believe his depiction of what constitutes a modern-day Amalek?