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Jan 14, 2025 | 
jpost.com | Gil Troy
Shame on them. And shame on the American Historical Association’s many anti-Zionist activists. They are doing a disservice to America, to history, to historians, and their organization’s mandate.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
jpost.com | Gil Troy
American Jewry is diversifying demographically. It’s no longer the overwhelmingly Democratic and Eastern European community of my youth. Just look how many Queens Jews voted for Donald Trump.
My elementary school, Solomon Schechter Day School of Queens, is turning Orthodox. It will become Queens Hebrew Academy.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
newageislam.com | Yisrael Medad |Yoram Dori |Gol Kalev |Gil Troy
By New Age Islam Edit Desk 8 January 2025 Israel Must Lessen Dependence On Foreign Weaponry What Irks Israel's Right Wing? Jimmy Carter: The Best US President Israelis Have Ever Had Strategic Threats: Turkey Rises In The Middle East, Israel-Bashing Rises In The West Israel's Soldiers Are Selfless, Civil, Patriotic. Israel's Politicians Are The Opposite The War Criminal 'Victim': Netanyahu's Inevitable Fate Can Netanyahu Maintain Control After The War?
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
jpost.com | Gil Troy
Surprisingly, Itamar Ben-Gvir apologized. He claims to regret his manipulations that dragged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from his hospital bed shortly after prostate surgery and pulled MK Boaz Bismuth from his mother’s shiva. Both came to the Knesset to pass legislation the coalition deemed critical. While defying coalition discipline, Ben-Gvir refused to find legislators to “offset” these legitimate absences.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
jewishjournal.com | Gil Troy
The new, renewed, Jew-hating virus has been spreading for years but it’s now reaching epidemic proportions, especially in so-called intellectual circles. Much of the publishing world has turned hostile to Jews. Writers giving off a whiff of Zionism or appreciation for Western civilization often find themselves canceled.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
jpost.com | Gil Troy
A two-week mid-November US book tour, then two weeks home in Israel, has my head spinning. Our two sons and son-in-law finished their latest reserve-duty rounds, following the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire. One son buried a beloved comrade, the heroic Yona Brief, 23, gravely wounded on October 7, who fought to live for 417 heart-wrenching days. We were invited to two weddings, one bat mitzvah, and that same son hosted a rollicking engagement party for friends.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
southwestnewstoday.com | Gil Troy
Editor’s note: The following piece originally ran on the Policy Magazine website. You may access that site below:The horror of the Hamas rampage across southern Israel triggered so much of the same collective Jewish trauma that the country was founded to prevent future generations from suffering. US Presidential historian and McGill University historian Gil Troy writes of this as an existential moment, and how life in Israel goes on, just as Israel itself will go on.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
jpost.com | Gil Troy
Let’s celebrate our heroic soldiers and resilient reservists, Israel’s unbelievable intelligence community, the IDF high command, and Netanyahu’s resolute leadership.
As Israel’s wary ceasefire with Hezbollah continues, there is only one path to success.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
jewishjournal.com | Gil Troy
Once upon a time, when high school seniors used to ask me, as a professor, “what’s a good school to attend,” they wondered where to best study history or philosophy or commerce. They asked what schools might be most intellectual, or friendly, or humanities-oriented.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
msn.com | Gil Troy
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