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Yoni Michanie

Yoni Michanie, a former paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces, holds a master’s degree in diplomacy and international security from IDC Herzliya. He is an Israel advocate, public speaker, Middle East analyst, and a campus adviser and strategic planner at CAMERA.

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Meet the rabbi who made it possible to live a Jewish life in the UAE
Yoni MichanieOctober 4, 2022
As the first rabbi to serve in the UAE, Rabbi Levi Duchman has spent eight years, with the eager cooperation of the government, helping to build the infrastructure so that Jews in the Gulf nation can live a “Jewish life.”
UAE Rabbi Levi Duchman and Lea Hadad during their wedding. The wedding is the largest Jewish event in the history of the Emirates. Credit: Jewish UAE/Christopher Pike.
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Experts say proposed new Iran deal much worse than 2015 agreement
Yoni MichanieSeptember 6, 2022
There seem to be vast differences between the proposed framework in Vienna and the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as significant concessions have been made by the West in order to appease Iranian negotiators.
Talks concerning re-entry into a nuclear deal with Iran. Credit: Stuart Miles/Shutterstock.
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Largest organization of university professors attacks IHRA definition of anti-Semitism
Yoni MichanieAugust 31, 2022
The AAUP’s policy document postulates that academic and intellectual freedom are threatened because the definition regards Palestinian activism as a form of discrimination.
Defining anti-Semitism. Credit: Lobroart/Shutterstock.
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Iran, terrorist group proxies develop new roadmap to stoke division in Israel
Yoni MichanieAugust 29, 2022
A state media report notes leaders’ intentions to create unity among Palestinian factions by intensifying tensions in areas like Sheikh Jarrah, Jenin, Tulkarm, Nablus and Ramallah.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ziyad al-Nakhalah (left, without a mask) meets with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Tehran. Source: President.ir.
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Yoni MichanieDecember 4, 2020
Strikes that make the world safer
A diplomatic issue of concern should be whether contemporary international law is equipped to address the issue of preemptive attacks against terror-sponsoring states who make genocidal against other members of the community.
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Yoni MichanieSeptember 30, 2020
Why the moral equivalency at the UN?
It’s a clear double-standard no other sovereign state is subjected to.
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Yoni MichanieApril 29, 2020
The more things stay the same in Gaza …
Anti-Israel activists may wish to continue to live in an alternate universe, but in doing so, they are simultaneously imposing a double-standard on the Jewish state while perpetuating Palestinian suffering.
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Yoni MichanieApril 20, 2020
So-called ‘human-rights’ activists bend facts during pandemic
Palestinians aren’t the only ones suffering; Israel’s economy has been battered and lives have been lost. And still, the Jewish state is sending aid to the Palestinian Authority and Gaza Strip.
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Yom Hashoah 2020
Yoni MichanieApril 17, 2020
Minimizing the Holocaust during the COVID-19 pandemic
The majority of Americans are completely unacquainted with one of the most fundamental lessons that modern history has left us with—the fact that anti-Semitism can be easily mainstreamed and weaponized.
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Yoni MichanieOctober 10, 2019
Propagating the false narrative that Zionists are ‘anti-Palestinian’
Shame on you, Noura Erakat! Palestinians deserve a better future than the one you are building for them.
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Yoni MichanieCAMERADecember 3, 2018
An unnecessary divide: Confronting J Street
J Street cannot call itself pro-Israel while justifying Airbnb’s discrimination against Jews.
Yoni Michanie
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Yoni MichanieSeptember 5, 2018
UCLA’s tango with hate and anti-Semitism
The upcoming national SJP conference at the University of California, Los Angeles, will serve as fuel for those committed to the demonization of students across the country who are supportive of Israel.
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Yoni MichanieJuly 5, 2018
A need to reconnect the Diaspora with Israeli Jews
As my family made it into the absorption center of Netanya later that afternoon, they heard the announcement that Lt. Col. Yonatan (“Yoni”) Netanyahu had succumbed to his wounds on the plane. It was that same day when my father chose that name for me.
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