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94 percent of Jewish Republicans and 83 percent of Jewish Democrats responded that they consider themselves to be supporters of Israel

ALGEMEINER Kamala Harris to Receive Lowest Share of Jewish Vote for a Democrat Since 1988 Jack Elbaum October 22, 2024 US Vice President Kamala Harris is leading former US President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential race among Jewish voters … Continue reading

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Oren: “Israel will retaliate against Iran and its venal proxies because defending our people from those who seek to massacre us is much of what our state is all about. Israel, at the risk of aggravating our allies, will survive”

CLARITY The View from Israel’s Universe Michael Oren October 5, 2024 …A truly proportionate response—hitting Tehran with the same 25,000 rockets and missives that Iran and its proxies have fired at us since October 7—would not, however, be acceptable to … Continue reading

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Whats behind the West’s Israel “linkage” fetish—and “why would the US want to reward Palestinians for committing and applauding terror?”

FUTURE OF JEWISH The West’s Silly Obsession With the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Michael Oren May 25, 2024 …For what is antisemitism but the insistence on saddling the Jews with the responsibility for all of society’s ills, plagues, and wars? Similarly, by … Continue reading

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“Ostensibly, Larry Summers was ousted because of a remark he made about women, but the real reason many on campus believed was his strong defense of Israel”

CLARITY WITH MICHAEL OREN Trials of the Ivy League Michael Oren March 5, 2024 The current wave of antisemitism sweeping many American campuses, most glaringly those of the Ivy League, is now national news. It is blatant, malicious, and woefully unchecked, … Continue reading

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Hatred of Israel cannot be distinguished from hatred of the Jewish people. Incontestably now, anti-Zionism is antisemitism.

FREE PRESS A War Against the Jews Michael Oren October 26, 2023 It wasn’t the rallies with “Keep the World Clean” posters and chants of “gas the Jews.” Nor was it the glorification of Hamas paragliders by the Chicago branch of Black Lives Matter … Continue reading

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“Assured by her generals that the Arabs were only bluffing and pressured by the Nixon administration not to launch a preemptive strike, Prime Minister Golda Meir waited until the last minute before mobilizing”

WALL STREET JOURNAL Remembering the Yom Kippur War in a Divided Israel Michael Oren September 28, 2023 …The result was a conflict that, in terms of its scale and complexity, was almost unmatched in the post-World War II era. It … Continue reading

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CTech spoke to former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S Michael Oren about his ambitious manifesto, Israel 2048

CTECH What is the role of Startup Nation in Israel’s next 100 years? by James Spiro November 10, 2021 Israel is approaching its first centennial and has myriad accomplishments of which it can be proud. Whether that’s defending its borders, … Continue reading

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#MichaelOren “The American personal relationship with God is weird and off-putting to Israelis, as I found out to my dismay. But the poles of religiosity may be reversing”

TABLET MAG Are Politicians Who Talk About God Crazy? by Michael Oren October 12, 2021 The note placed on the lectern in the middle of my remarks read, “Peres dead. Return immediately.” I instantly stopped and apologized to the audience … Continue reading

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Michael Oren: “The Arab revolts of the 1920s and ’30s demonstrated that Arab opposition to the Jewish presence in Palestine began well before the founding of Israel and was directed at all Jews, even the non-Zionist ultra-Orthodox”

TABLET MAG The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem by Michael Oren August 4, 2021 Israeli television’s latest hit, The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, is melodramatic, plodding, predictable, and, by American standards at least, culturally inappropriate. It is also ahistorical and politically … Continue reading

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Iran Deal redux: “Reviving the JCPOA will ensure either the emergence of a nuclear Iran or a desperate war to stop it”

THE ATLANTIC The Case Against the Iran Deal by Michael Oren and Yossi Klein Halevi January 21, 2021 …Why, then, aren’t Israelis and Arabs—those with the most to lose from Iranian nuclearization—also demanding a return to the JCPOA? Why aren’t … Continue reading

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