The brilliant minds of the West have failed to distinguish between Islam and Islamism—between Muslims as individuals and the ideological machinery of groups like the Muslim Brotherhood.

A two-week mid-November US book tour, then two weeks home in Israel, has my head spinning.

Israel’s resilience amid political, health, and security crises highlights its unique spirit and determination to safeguard its sovereignty.

Last month, the JPPI – Jewish People Policy Institute – published The Essential Guide to October 7th and its Aftermath: Facts, Figures, History – my how-to-defend-Israel guide. This week, Wicked Son is publishing To Resist the Academic Intifada: Letters to My Students on Defending the Zionist Dream – my why-to-celebrate-Israel manifesto. The story of that book is the story of a changing agenda over three years.

The findings show that the events of the past year have strengthened the “Jewish value” secular Israel Jews attach to national missions and symbols, as well as their sense of connection to Diaspora Jews.

The Israeli seismograph, in the last year and a half, has registered countless shocks beneath the ground we stand upon, but the thick and jagged fault line threatening a quake of enormous magnitude seems to run directly under the hostages

This development calls into question Religious Zionist beliefs regarding the historical-redemptive process they believe the State of Israel is undergoing.

In that spirit, when we sing “Jerusalem of Gold,” some thank God, some praise the IDF, others get Zionist goosebumps, but all rally around Jerusalem.