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Robert Silverman
Robert Silverman
A former U.S. diplomat and president of the American Foreign Service Association, Robert Silverman is a lecturer at Shalem College, senior fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security and president of the Inter Jewish Muslim Alliance.
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A protest against the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil at Foley Square in New York City, on March 12, 2025. Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images.
The Mahmoud Khalil case
The U.S. media have misleadingly reported Mahmoud Khalil's deportation proceedings as the Trump administration punishing his protected speech.   
Robert Silverman
March 17, 2025
Jabalia, in the central Gaza Strip, Feb. 5, 2025. Photo by Khalil Kahlout/Flash90.
Trump’s Gaza plan: Change of narrative
If we discard the old narrative, and encourage Israelis and Arabs to respond to the alternative Trump vision, we could be on the path to another peace breakthrough in the Middle East.
Robert Silverman
March 10, 2025
IDF soldiers conduct operations against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, Jan. 20, 2024. Credit: IDF.
Let Israel finish the job
If Hamas survives this war in any form as an organization capable of launching new attacks, its supporters will declare victory. And they will be right.
Robert Silverman
Jan. 22, 2024
Chief Justice of Israel's Supreme Court Esther Hayut at the hearing of the government's "reasonableness" law, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, Sept. 12, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
How Israel’s Supreme Court can strengthen democracy
Without overruling the Knesset
Robert Silverman
Sept. 13, 2023