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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.

Swastika stickers found on the Alaska Jewish Museum and “Mad Myrna’s” bar on May 26, 2021. Credit: Anchorage Police Department.

American leaders must stand up to antisemitism

At the county, state and federal levels, there is much to be done.

Yoni Michanie

March 28, 2023

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.

Meet the rabbi who made it possible to live a Jewish life in the UAE

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.”

Yoni Michanie

Oct. 4, 2022

International talks concerning a nuclear deal with Iran. Credit: Stuart Miles/Shutterstock.

Experts say proposed new Iran deal much worse than 2015 agreement

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.

Yoni Michanie

Sept. 6, 2022

Defining anti-Semitism. Credit: Lobroart/Shutterstock.

Largest organization of university professors attacks IHRA definition of anti-Semitism

The AAUP’s policy document postulates that academic and intellectual freedom are threatened because the definition regards Palestinian activism as a form of discrimination.

Yoni Michanie

Aug. 31, 2022

Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ziad al-Nakhalah (left, without a mask) meets with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Tehran. Source: President.ir.

Iran, terrorist group proxies develop new roadmap to stoke division in Israel

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.

Yoni Michanie

Aug. 29, 2022

The site of top Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh's assassination, near Tehran, Nov. 27, 2020. Credit: Fars News Agency.

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.

Yoni Michanie

Dec. 4, 2020

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Why the moral equivalency at the UN?

It’s a clear double-standard no other sovereign state is subjected to.

Yoni Michanie

Sept. 30, 2020

Palestinian terrorists from the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, in Rafah, the southern Gaza Strip, on April 27, 2020. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

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.

Yoni Michanie

April 29, 2020

The Israeli government facilitating the transfer of medical equipment to the Palestinian Authority and Gaza Strip. Credit: IDF via Twitter.

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.

Yoni Michanie

April 20, 2020