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1 week ago | 
jns.org | Gadi Taub |Ruthie Blum
(May 4, 2025 / JNS)The war in Gaza has significance far beyond its regional military aspects. It has come to play a major role in the global war of ideas, a crucial front in the worldwide struggle against woke ideology. Its outcome will have significance for the future of liberal democracy everywhere. Because the war is a test case for one of the most crucial questions of our time: Can the West regain enough self-confidence to defend its own values?
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1 month ago | 
quillette.com | Gadi Taub |Pamela Paresky
On 9 March, Pamela Paresky sat down with Gadi Taub in Tel Aviv to discuss the war in Gaza, the failures of Israel’s security establishment, and the ideological forces—both inside Israel and across the West—that have undermined the country’s ability to defend itself. Their wide-ranging conversation covers everything from 7 October and the erosion of Israeli deterrence to the rise of postcolonial ideology, the crisis of liberalism, and the battle for narrative power in a media-saturated world. I.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
israelbehindthenews.com | Gadi Taub
Shany Mor’s essay identifies four “concepts” that he believes blinded us to the approaching disaster of October 7.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
mosaicmagazine.com | Gadi Taub
Shany Mor’s essay identifies four “concepts” that he believes blinded us to the approaching disaster of October 7.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
jewishpress.com | Gadi Taub
(JNS) A bill to outlaw any dealing with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is supposed to come up for a vote in the Knesset at the end of the month. International pressure spearheaded by the Biden administration to take it off the agenda is mounting. This is, of course, part of the effort to resurrect the so-called “two-state solution” out of the ashes of Oct. 7.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
israelnationalnews.com | Gadi Taub
Gadi Taubis an Israeli historian, author, screenwriter, political commentator.and senior lecturer at Hebrew University’s Federmann School of Public Policy who appears frequently on Israeli media.Taub is also an internationally recognized voice in the discourse on Zionism and liberalism. (JNS) A bill to outlaw any dealing with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is supposed to come up for a vote in the Knesset at the end of the month.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
clevelandjewishnews.com | Gadi Taub
A bill to outlaw any dealing with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is supposed to come up for a vote in the Knesset at the end of the month. International pressure spearheaded by the Biden administration to take it off the agenda is mounting. This is, of course, part of the effort to resurrect the so-called “two-state solution” out of the ashes of Oct. 7.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
jewishpress.com | Gadi Taub
(JNS) Of all the images of Israelis being taken hostage on Oct. 7, 2023, the most heartbreaking is that of Shiri Bibas holding her two red-headed toddlers, her face contorted in horror, as if the camera had frozen the very instant when she realized that there is no human feeling in her barbaric captors to appeal to. We now know who these barbarians are. The Israel Defense Forces positively identified the kidnappers of the Bibas family. They still live in Gaza.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
clevelandjewishnews.com | Gadi Taub
Of all the images of Israelis being taken hostage on Oct. 7, 2023, the most heartbreaking is that of Shiri Bibas holding her two redheaded toddlers, her face contorted in horror, as if the camera had frozen the very instant when she realized there is no human feeling in her barbaric captors to appeal to. We now know who these barbarians are. The Israel Defense Forces positively identified the kidnappers of the Bibas family. They still live in Gaza.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
jewishlink.news | Gadi Taub
When Hamas’ barbaric execution of six Israeli hostages was announced on the news, it sent immediate shock waves throughout Israel. It evoked the deepest of Jewish traumas—that of helplessness. After the shock came the rage. But the targets of that rage were not the same for everyone. The Israeli X feed was neatly divided. The right-wing feed was outraged at Hamas. The left-wing feed was outraged at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
