Catherine Shakdam

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

Two Israeli embassy staffers, murdered in Washington, D.C. Their killer: Elias Rodriguez, now in custody. A name unfamiliar to most, yet heavy with consequence. For all the headlines that fixate on him, the deeper question remains—one that polite diplomacy rarely dares to voice: Was he a lone actor, or was he a weapon in the hands of something far larger? We must resist the instinct to file this under domestic aberration.

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

Let us, for a moment, imagine the headlines: “14,000 Babies to Die in 48 Hours”. Not from disease, nor natural disaster, nor famine — but, by implication, at the hands of the Jewish state. This was not tabloid hysteria. This was not war propaganda from the seventh-century stylings of Iran’s Supreme Leader. This was a claim made by none other than a senior United Nations humanitarian official, Tom Fletcher, during a BBC interview.

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

In an age awash with hashtags, slogans, and placard profundity, it has become unfashionable—if not positively subversive—to ask that history be treated with care. Today, history must emote. It must rally. It must rattle cages, preferably while rhyming in iambic chants. It must, above all, serve a cause. And so we come, inevitably, to the Nakba. The Arabic word Nakba, meaning “catastrophe,” has assumed a near-sacrosanct status in modern discourse on the Middle East.

4 weeks 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.

1 month ago | express.co.uk | Catherine Shakdam

Swathes of British Left are numb to history – this is an incredibly dangerous momentBritain desperately needs a sanity check to fight off old horrors that are resurfacing. OPINION Swathes of British Left are numb to history (Image: Guy Smallman/Getty Images)Once a year, we are reminded with bowed heads and solemn rituals of a horror that should have ensured, once and for all, that the Jewish people would never again walk alone into the abyss.