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Why This War Is Different From Other Wars

Jan 10, 2024 | washingtonjewishweek.com | Zachary Goldsmith

By Zachary R. GoldsmithOne of the most evocative photographs documenting the Holocaust depicts no dead bodies, gas chambers or smokestacks. It is a photograph of a floor upon which two Yiddish words were hastily written in blood: “Yidden, Nekamah!” (“Jews, Revenge!”).
Why this war is different from other wars

Jan 3, 2024 | clevelandjewishnews.com | Zachary Goldsmith

One of the most evocative photographs documenting the Holocaust depicts no dead bodies, gas chambers or smokestacks. It is a photograph of a floor upon which two Yiddish words were hastily written in blood: “Yidden, Nekamah!” (“Jews, Revenge!”).
A Generation of Misguided Policy in Israel

Nov 5, 2023 | quillette.com | Michael Ben-Gad |Julia Friedman |Zachary Goldsmith

Israel was not founded by religious Jews. The early Zionists were secular, rational, and uniquely unsentimental about the Jewish condition in late 19th-century Europe and beyond. They believed that if Jews were to end their tragic two-thousand-year exile, their reliance on God and the fatalism it bred needed to be expunged. The early Zionists’ focus on secularism seems to have been vindicated by recent events.
Faking Hope: AI Art as Propaganda

Nov 3, 2023 | quillette.com | Julia Friedman |Zachary Goldsmith |Armin Navabi

In 1993, three months after Israel and the PLO signed the Oslo Accords, the Canadian magazine Maclean’s published what was soon to become an iconic photograph. It shows the backs of two boys in brotherly embrace, overlooking a blurred-out Jerusalem cityscape. The boy on the right is sporting a yarmulke, the one on the left a keffiyeh. The picture came to symbolize hope for the future because, as everyone knows, the future belongs to the children.
The Demons We’ve Made

Nov 3, 2023 | thepress.net | Zachary Goldsmith

The following is a condensed version of "The Demons We've Made" by Zachary R. Goldsmith, published at Law & Liberty. Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1872 novel Demons is, at its core, a story of fathers and sons, a story of two generations typified by Stepan, the father, and Pyotr, the son. Stepan is a composite stand-in character for the Russian intelligentsia of the 1840s, who looked to fashionable Western theory and socialism as the needed tonic to cure an ailing Russia.
The Demons We’ve Made

Nov 3, 2023 | fairfieldsuntimes.com | Zachary Goldsmith

The following is a condensed version of "The Demons We've Made" by Zachary R. Goldsmith, published at Law & Liberty. Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1872 novel Demons is, at its core, a story of fathers and sons, a story of two generations typified by Stepan, the father, and Pyotr, the son. Stepan is a composite stand-in character for the Russian intelligentsia of the 1840s, who looked to fashionable Western theory and socialism as the needed tonic to cure an ailing Russia.
Whose Genocide Is It Anyway?

Nov 2, 2023 | quillette.com | Zachary Goldsmith |Armin Navabi |Brett Hall

As Israel continues operation Swords of Iron against the Hamas terrorist group, pro-Palestine protests the world over have been accusing the country of genocide. While the smear of apartheid has long been leveled at Israel in an attempt to draw a moral equivalency to apartheid South Africa, this newer libel that Israel is engaged in genocide against Palestinians attempts to do the unthinkable—to link the Jewish state with Nazi Germany. This cynical calculus is as wrong as it is obscene.
The Demons We’ve Made – Zachary R. Goldsmith

Oct 19, 2023 | lawliberty.org | Zachary Goldsmith |Dave Barfield |Elizabeth Amato |Juliana Geran Pilon

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1872 novel Demons is, at its core, a story of fathers and sons, a story of two generations typified by Stepan, the father, and Pyotr, the son. Stepan is a composite stand-in character for the Russian intelligentsia of the 1840s, who looked to fashionable Western theory and socialism as the needed tonic to cure an ailing Russia.