Blake Flayton Archives

Blake Flayton

Pro-Israel demonstrators in front of the Federal Building in Los Angeles on May 12, 2021. Photo by Harvey Farr.

Can American Jews make demands on Israel if they don’t live there?

Both Israel and the Diaspora must admit that emotional resentment is bad for both of them.

Blake Flayton

November 16, 2022

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, devoid of those participating in the annual March of the Living to mark Yom Hashoah, April 20-21, 2020. Credit: Marcin Kozlowski, March of the Living.

The Holocaust and Lithuania’s family secret

“The Nazi’s Granddaughter: How I Discovered My Grandfather Was a War Criminal” is a story of one family’s dark past and one country’s shame.

Blake Flayton

August 11, 2022

Image of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Credit: TPYXA_ILLUSTRATION/Shutterstock.

Russia’s ‘Fifth Column’

As long as Jews dare to be Jewish, we are a fifth column, guilty of treason, of espionage, of conspiracy, just by being ourselves.

Blake Flayton

July 28, 2022

U.S. President Joe Biden during a welcoming ceremony at Ben-Gurion International Airport on July 13, 2022. Photo by Sraya Diamant/Flash90.

Joe Biden’s two-state miscalculation

When the U.S. president calls for a two-state solution but simultaneously pledges further support for UNRWA, he makes that solution impossible.

Blake Flayton

July 20, 2022

An anti-Israel protest in London in June 2021. Credit: Loredana Sangiuliano/Shutterstock.

The great return theory

Anti-Zionism and white nationalism have a great deal in common.

Blake Flayton

June 2, 2022

American folk singer-songwriter Bob Dylan performing. Credit: Flickr.

Bob Dylan’s bohemian Zionism

The singer-songwriter’s pro-Israel anthem points the way toward a renewal of Zionist activism

Blake Flayton

May 18, 2022

Ballot slips for competing parties are seen at a polling station in Jerusalem as Israelis vote in the March 23, 2021, election. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

The aspiration of a Jewish democracy

A Jewish democracy is a dream to live up to and we all need to take part in it, because ‘if you will it, it is no dream.’

Blake Flayton

May 11, 2022

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