Catherine Perez-Shakdam

1 week ago | blogs.timesofisrael.com | Catherine Perez-Shakdam |Catherine Shakdam

If ever there were a moment in which Britain’s political soul seemed to slip quietly into the Thames, it is surely now. This week, with unnerving synchronicity, senior Conservative MPs—those once presumed to embody gravitas and prudence—joined their Labour counterparts in a call for Britain to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state. That they should do so mere days after British security services thwarted a terrorist plot against Israel’s embassy in London is not simply a lapse in judgement.

2 weeks ago | blogs.timesofisrael.com | Catherine Perez-Shakdam |Catherine Shakdam

It is a singular misery of our time that brutishness, masquerading as virtue, is now applauded as courage. The recent antics of the Irish rap group Kneecap at Coachella — one of the grand carnivals of Western self-congratulation — ought to serve as a final exhibit in this ongoing farce. Standing before a sea of adoring and mindless faces, Kneecap chose not to challenge power, but to flatter the basest instincts of the mob.

1 month ago | blogs.timesofisrael.com | Catherine Perez-Shakdam |Catherine Shakdam

By now we ought to have grown wearily familiar with President Emmanuel Macron’s fondness for grandstanding masquerading as statesmanship — that gallant little pirouette he performs each time he wishes to assert France’s moral relevance on the world stage. But his latest venture — the premature “recognition” of a Palestinian state by 2025 and a sanctimonious call for an arms embargo against Israel — is not merely vacuous diplomacy.

1 month ago | intpolicydigest.org | Catherine Perez-Shakdam |Catherine Shakdam

In an era marked by the steady erosion of truth, Belgium’s decision to reject the International Criminal Court’s politically fraught warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands as a rare, timely act of moral clarity. It’s not merely a gesture of solidarity with a particular leader—it’s a firm affirmation of sovereignty, the right to self-defense, and a resolute commitment to justice.

1 month ago | blogs.timesofisrael.com | Catherine Perez-Shakdam |Catherine Shakdam

Imagine them: the survivors. Their faces hollowed by hunger, their wrists inked with numbers, their language orphaned from the world around them. They emerge not into welcome, but into indifference. From the crematoria of Poland and Germany, from the pits of Ukraine, from the train yards of Hungary—yes. But also from the alleyways of Tunis. From the rooftops of Aleppo. From the streets of Baghdad, Cairo, Tripoli, and Sana’a.