FUTURE OF JEWISH
The Israeli Left learned nothing from October 7th.
Joshua Hoffman
May 28, 2026

There is something seriously revealing about who the international media chooses to platform when it wants to obsessively criticize Israel. Again and again, outlets like The New York Times turn not to Israelis who reflect the country as it actually exists, but to members of a shrinking, culturally influential Left-wing elite that still believes it speaks for the nation. This week, The New York Times chose Israeli historian and public intellectual Yuval Noah Harari, a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The choice was not accidental. Harari represents a particular ideological class in Israel: secular, globalized, highly educated, deeply embedded in international intellectual culture, and increasingly disconnected from the instincts, fears, experiences, and identity of the average Israeli. READ MORE