FUTURE OF JEWISH
The Israeli Occupation That Must End
Nachum Kaplan
Jul 25, 2026

Israel’s alleged occupation of Judea and Samaria and Gaza grabs the headlines but is nothing compared to its biggest occupation, which is that of the Western mind. The Jewish state has no interest in this occupation, but the Western mind will not let it go, no matter how many stage hypnosis tricks Israel pulls to break itself free. Israel has psychologically occupied the Western imagination. A country smaller than many American states, containing a fraction of the population of the Middle East and fighting conflicts that are nowhere near the world’s largest or bloodiest, commands an astonishing share of Western moral attention. It is discussed with an intensity normally reserved for superpowers, civilisational threats, and celebrities behaving badly in restaurants. Governments issue statements. Universities convene panels and protests. Artists sign letters. Trade unions pass motions. Actors who cannot locate their own dignity suddenly locate “Palestine.” READ MORE

FUTURE OF JEWISH Melissa Brodsky: Jews were the original Palestinians In 1938, someone living in Tel Aviv (the first modern, all-Jewish city) reading the morning news was likely looking at The Palestine Post. A classical music fan attending a concert would probably watch the Palestine Symphony Orchestra. A builder needing a loan for a Jewish settlement went to the Anglo-Palestine Bank. They were Jewish, and they were Palestinian. Today, that sounds very much like a contradiction. People have been brainwashed to view the word “Palestinian” as an exclusive ethnic and national identity belonging solely to the Arab residents of the region. But history leaves a very long paper trail, and those documents show a different reality. The current use of the word is a recent invention. It’s not born from ancient roots, but from a calculated political strategy in the 1960s. To understand how a word that once described Jews became the battle cry against them, it helps to look at the timeline.