Catherine Perez-Shakdam

1 week 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 week 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.

3 weeks 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.

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

On the evening of April 12, Jews across the world will gather to retell our most ancient story. We will speak of slavery and freedom, of cruelty and redemption. We will remember how we were once voiceless, nameless, stripped of dignity—and how, through faith and defiance, we walked into liberty. But this year, the words will catch in our throats. Because in 2025, “Let my people go” is no longer a ritual refrain. It is a living cry.

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

The morning’s light broke over Israel with the unmistakable roar of fighter jets, the latest chapter in a war that has never truly ended. The airstrikes over Gaza signaled not just another military manoeuvre but a profound shift in the tide of history—a reckoning long deferred but now, at last, impossible to ignore. For 16 months, Israel has fought to bring home its stolen sons and daughters, to break the iron grip of Hamas, and to restore security to a nation scarred by terror.