Natan Sharansky Journalist Profile

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Natan Sharansky: Why Is Israel’s Leader Being Barred from Auschwitz?

Jan 9, 2025 | thefp.com | Natan Sharansky

Natan Sharansky: Why Is Israel’s Leader Being Barred from Auschwitz? The ICC’s false charges betray human rights law for the sake of demonizing the Jewish state. When world leaders gather in Poland this January 27 to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, one seat will be ominously empty. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, of all the leaders of the world, cannot set foot on Polish soil without risking arrest.
Jews may feel abandoned but good people will step up — as they did for me in the gulag

Sep 13, 2024 | nypost.com | Natan Sharansky

Pro-Israel demonstrators gather in front of Columbia University on August 27, 2024, to hold an "Unmask Campus Hate" protest at the start of the academic year in New York City. Getty Images Having spent nine years in the gulag, I know something about loneliness.
Bad Jew: A Family's Quest from the Minsk Ghetto to Netanyahu's Israel

Aug 26, 2024 | jewishbookcouncil.org | Natan Sharansky |Gil Troy

Review By – August 26, 2024 As the grandson of a hero of the Minsk Ghetto, the son of an activist in Communist-era Poland, and a foreign correspondent reporting from Jerusalem, French journalist Piotr Smolar is uniquely positioned to write about Jewish realities spanning decades, political ideologies, and continents. By titling his book Bad Jew, Smolar suggests that he, his father, and his grandfather are “traitors” to Judaism, each in their own way.
Sharansky: In prison I was freer than my interrogators

Jun 4, 2024 | globes.co.il | Natan Sharansky |Ariel Whitman

Not many people alive today have done as much for human freedom and the Jewish people as has Natan Sharansky. Sharansky, born in Donetsk, Ukraine, was the spokesman for the human rights movement, a prisoner of Zion, and a leader of the struggle for the right of Soviet Jews to emigrate to Israel. After applying to "make aliya", Sharansky was arrested on charges of treason and espionage. He was convicted in a Soviet court and served nine years in the Gulag.
The 500 Jews at Columbia University

May 24, 2024 | tabletmag.com | Natan Sharansky

In the furor over America’s campuses, it was easy to miss the letter that 500 of Columbia University’s Jews penned and signed to present their position in their own voice. Yet it was this letter, quietly distributed and far less aggressive than some of the other events that overshadowed it, that may prove to be the turning point in the struggle for American Jewry’s future. This is why. 20 years ago, just after the second intifada, I went on a tour of American and Canadian campuses.
The Fight for Freedom, From Exodus to Gaza

Apr 26, 2024 | wallstreetjournal-ny.newsmemory.com | Natan Sharansky

The Fight for Freedom, From Exodus to Gaza Jewish fami --lies around the world on Monday, the first night of Passover, sat around their seder tables reading the Haggadah, which tells the story of our people’s Exodus from Egypt. The focus of this high point in the Jewish calendar is the beginning of our history as a free people. Two conclusions emerge. First, freedom is a gift from heaven—and second, even if the Almighty’s plan is for us to be free, we will always have to fight for it.
Opinion | The Fight for Freedom, From Exodus to Gaza

Apr 25, 2024 | wsj.com | Natan Sharansky

Jewish families around the world on Monday, the first night of Passover, sat around their seder tables reading the Haggadah, which tells the story of our people’s Exodus from Egypt. The focus of this high point in the Jewish calendar is the beginning of our history as a free people. Two conclusions emerge. First, freedom is a gift from heaven—and second, even if the Almighty’s plan is for us to be free, we will always have to fight for it.
Campus activism is the second front of the war - opinion

Mar 17, 2024 | jpost.com | Natan Sharansky

Rational arguments can hold little sway in the face of this totalizing ideology. Many of those fervently demonstrating for Gaza have no understanding of what “from the river to the sea” means.
How the West should honour Alexei Navalny’s legacy

Mar 1, 2024 | almendron.com | Natan Sharansky

Around a year ago I received a letter from my alma mater: the Soviet gulag, where I spent nine years after being convicted of anti-Soviet activity, high treason and espionage, and from which I graduated in 1986. The letter was sent by Alexei Navalny from a shtrafnoy izolyator, or “shizo” for short, the most extreme type of punishment cell in the gulag. He told me he was reading my book, “Fear No Evil”, and was surprised by the similarity of our experiences.
A former political prisoner on how the West should honour Alexei Navalny’s legacy

Feb 29, 2024 | economist.com | Natan Sharansky

It needs to rediscover its concern for Russian dissidents, argues Natan SharanskyAROUND A YEAR ago I received a letter from my alma mater: the Soviet gulag, where I spent nine years after being convicted of anti-Soviet activity, high treason and espionage, and from which I graduated in 1986. The letter was sent by Alexei Navalny from a shtrafnoy izolyator, or “shizo” for short, the most extreme type of punishment cell in the gulag.