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Moshe R. Manheim

Moshe R. Manheim practiced and taught psychotherapy for more than 40 years. He is the author of Elsie’s Boys and has written on psychology, culture, antisemitism, language and public discourse for numerous outlets.

Accusations once directed primarily at Israeli policy too frequently spill outward onto Jews more generally, collapsing distinctions between state, identity, politics, religion and ethnicity.
Creating a language of “parallel traumas” harms the historical record, and it ultimately flattens moral distinction.
What America designed in Philadelphia in 1787, Israel postponed in 1948.
Maybe it wasn’t all love, but there was a sense at one point in the Middle East that things were bending in a favorable direction.
Decisions affecting a critical American ally risk being filtered through internal partisan dynamics, rather than external strategic reality.
When the messenger is dismissed, the message is often discarded with it.