Zahava Englard Shapiro Archives

Zahava Englard Shapiro

Zahava Englard Shapiro is a Jerusalem based author and writes books, articles, and news analysis focusing on Israel and other matters of Jewish interest.

A general view of the Jewish community of Karnei Shomron in Samaria, June 4, 2020. Photo by Sraya Diamant/Flash90.

The Israel-UAE treaty: A good deal, and a good deal lost

Israelis are so used to our government bargaining away our inherent rights to our land that few bat an eyelash over it. That, in and of itself, is a sad statement on Israel’s national pride, or lack thereof.

Zahava Englard Shapiro

August 17, 2020

Peter Beinart. Credit: Joe Mabel via Wikimedia Commons.

The perfidious among us, past and present

Peter Beinart is moving fast and furiously to solidify his acceptance by his co-progressives, at a time when Jew-hatred permeates their politics.

Zahava Englard Shapiro

July 26, 2020

Protesters in Boston advocate for the anti-Israel BDS movement on July 1, 2020. Courtesy: CAMERA.

Trending: American Jewry as ‘nokhschleppers’

The list of desperate American-Jewish efforts to brown-nose those who can’t stand the sight of them is too long to incorporate into this one missive.

Zahava Englard Shapiro

July 5, 2020

An Iron Dome air-defense missile battery in central Israel on May 15, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

Israel needs an iron will more than an Iron Dome

By providing an excuse to delay taking decisive action against the terrorist threat on Israel’s southern border, is the air-defense system making the situation worse?

Zahava Englard Shapiro

November 14, 2019

Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives in Israel with President Reuven Rivlin (seated, at left) next to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.). Credit: Mark Neiman/GPO.

Note to American Jewish leaders: The (Democratic) Party is over

American Jews can still wise up, focus on the big picture and make a difference at the voting booth. The absence of organized Jewish leadership does not exempt anyone from personal responsibility.

Zahava Englard Shapiro

August 25, 2019

Ayelet Shaked, former Minister of Justice and currently head of the Union of Right Wing Parties, speaks during a press conference outside her home in Tel Aviv on July 25, 2019. Photo by Avshalom Shoshoni/Flash90.

In the next election, let Israel win!

Let Ayelet Shaked win; in doing so, with a united right-wing bloc under her leadership, Israel wins.

Zahava Englard Shapiro

July 29, 2019

A view of an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip on March 25, 2019. Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit.

Israel under attack: The only reaction that matters

We, the people of Israel, must demand deterrence. Our security will come about by winning—by determining what the end-game must be and by unapologetically seeing it through.

Zahava Englard Shapiro

March 27, 2019

IDF soldiers rush injured Israelis to Soroka Hospital in Beersheva after evacuating them by helicopter on Aug. 26, 2014, following a mortar attack on Kibbutz Nirim near the Gaza border. Two Israeli men died from wounds they sustained in the incident, which took place shortly before the latest Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal went into effect. Photo by Flash90.

We always walk alone …

Driven by a vision of becoming a nation like all others, Zionists believed that global Jew-hatred would end once we, the Jewish people, returned to our ancestral lands and reestablished our state. They were wrong.

Zahava Englard Shapiro

November 25, 2018

In Washington, D.C., Emily Grabelsky, co-chair of the Domestic Policy and Government Affairs Disability Committee for the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA), delivers welcome remarks for Jewish Disability Advocacy Day, Feb. 6, 2018. Credit: JFNA via Facebook.

Jewish Federation of North America, it’s time to listen

Can it be that the Federation’s “we need to talk” mission dreads actually talking, and is simply interested in pushing its agenda?

Zahava Englard Shapiro

October 18, 2018

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