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Yishai Fleisher

Yishai Fleisher is the International Spokesperson for the Jewish community of Biblical Hebron - the site of Tomb of the Forefathers and Mothers, and a Middle East flashpoint. Yishai is also an Israeli broadcaster on the Land of Israel Network and a frequent columnist for Breitbart, Jerusalem Post, and the New York Times, and has been featured on CNN, Al Jazeera, Fox, Vice, BBC, and more. He holds a JD from Cardozo Law and lives with his family in Judea.

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Yishai FleisherJuly 26, 2022
Ben Shapiro and binary ‘aliyah’
Don’t demand an immediate “yes” from Diaspora Jews, help them make their own way to a connection with Israel.
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Yishai FleisherJanuary 12, 2022
The reverend father of ‘Israeli apartheid’ 
Desmond Tutu’s legacy is much more than that of a mere bigot. He was one of the main architects of a movement to reframe the Jewish state as the antagonist in the global battle against oppression.
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Yishai FleisherJanuary 4, 2021
Seven reasons for the Arab world’s ‘post-jihad’ movement
Numerous factors have come together to help the Arab world transition out of the era of jihadism and into a mode of progress.
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Yishai FleisherOctober 18, 2020
Abraham returns to forge peace among his descendants
A new spirit of regional cooperation is spreading its wings across the Middle East.
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Yishai FleisherAugust 26, 2020
The narrative war: Occupation vs. the ‘Abraham Accord’ 
What is the counter-word to “occupation”? What word can bridge the Arab-Jewish divide? The answer, which the UAE has found, is “Abraham.”
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Yishai FleisherMay 8, 2020
When it comes to sovereignty, Daniel Pipes is wrong
Contrary to a conservative's warnings, sending a signal that Israel intends to stay in its historic heartland forever will do much to deflate jihadist intentions.
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Yishai FleisherApril 26, 2020
San Remo: The original ‘deal of the century’
As we mark Israeli independence this year, let us cast off the contrived U.N. narrative in which Israel was born into the inevitability of two states.
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Yishai FleisherMarch 31, 2020
The start-up nation in hibernation
The coronavirus crisis has reminded us that we are small, that our knowledge is limited, and that we are not the masters of this world.
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Yishai FleisherFebruary 13, 2020
Why young Europeans can’t understand Israeli settlers
Europe today is post-God, post-nationalism, post-family and post-Holocaust—and is therefore understandably at odds with the very concept of Israel.
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Yishai FleisherJanuary 21, 2020
The ‘Prayer Intifada’
It’s time for Israel to reverse the misguided Dayan doctrine and send a clear message that Palestinian “liberation” of the Temple Mount and the Tomb of the Patriarchs will utterly fail.
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Yishai FleisherJanuary 13, 2020
The miracle of Trump
The era of U.S. President Donald Trump is an opportunity for Israel to take big, bold steps. If the sea has split, let us not stop until we’re all the way across.
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Yishai FleisherMay 5, 2019
The clash of American liberal Jewry and Israeli nationalism
American and Israeli Jews share DNA, familiarity, goodwill, a love of the Torah and a love of the homeland, but live very different lives and have consequently developed very different mindsets.
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Yishai FleisherFebruary 24, 2019
Why the Otzma Party is a legitimate political voice
Two-state solutionists plan to kick out Jews from their homes in favor of the newly minted Palestine, which sounds a lot like ethnic-cleansing. These very same people look down from their high horse of moral superiority at a right-wing party that calls to expel terrorists so that Jews can be safe from jihad in their ancestral heartland.
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Yishai FleisherOctober 31, 2018
Digitally close, emotionally far from Pittsburgh
Many good people were taken from us, murdered in a horrific fashion. I think that if we could ask them now how they would like us to commemorate their untimely deaths, they would say: Come together, sisters and brothers, over our tragedy. Let’s not disappoint them.
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Yishai FleisherMay 30, 2018
To Michael Chabon, from biblical Hebron
The Jewish community of Hebron does not “gaze out in scorn” at our Arab neighbors. We have many friends and colleagues among the Arab community—those who reject jihad.
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