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.

I realize this program of action may be uncomfortable for many American Jews. Still, the cost of the American Jewish vote for the Democratic party must include policies that will advance Jewish security and identity for the future.

According to the survey, Kamala Harris is perceived as less “pro-Israel” than Joe Biden, and J.D. Vance is less pro-Israel than Donald Trump.

80% of American Jews opposed the suspension of arms shipments to Israel as a diplomatic pressure tool.

Is it worth risking the US-Israel friendship and many Democrats’ goodwill to please a few Channel 14 commentators, who slavishly support him anyway?

JPPI’s 2023 Jewish World Dialogue examined the growing polarization and uncivil discourse within Israel and Jewish communities worldwide – especially in regard to Israeli government policies affecting religious pluralism in Israel, the balance of power between the Israeli judiciary and the other branches of government, and the administered/occupied territories (Judea and Samaria, aka the West Bank) post-l967.

The index shows broad consensus among respondents, including Biden supporters, that Israel should enter Rafah in order to defeat Hamas, and that Israel should pay more attention to avoid harming “uninvolved civilians.”

October 7 confirmed that calling for ceasefires prematurely, as many of these “religious leaders” also did in 2009, 2012, 2014, and 2021, is peace-posturing and not peace-seeking.

JPPI’s Voice of the Jewish People Index – February 2024: Most survey respondents believe that Israel is conducting the war to the right degree of aggressivity or is less than “aggressive” enough.