The Mirror and the Archive
When the appearance cannot be denied and the archive cannot be erased – one fact remains: reality always wins.
When the appearance cannot be denied and the archive cannot be erased – one fact remains: reality always wins.
In Israel 2025, you have complete freedom to express anything, as long as you express what the system likes to hear.
The new anti-Semitism did not break out on the American right.
It was given a microphone there – but it was born in a completely different place.
The new anti-Semitism doesn’t scream, it smiles.
It doesn’t burn synagogues – it puts on a podcast and it doesn’t come from the margins – it comes from the studio.
How the “right to live” became less important than the right to tweet against you in fluent English
The rift will not be closed with a speech, nor a reconciliation post, nor a fake hug in the studio.
It will only be closed when one side stops lying or when the other side stops apologizing.
Real protest is a powerful force in a democracy, but when every Monday and Thursday your roads are blocked in the name of values written in Arabic – it’s worth asking: “Who is really protesting here – and who is just trying to engineer you?”
What is actually left in the Israeli left today – besides the almost obsessive-hysterical-therapeutic desire to remove Benjamin Netanyahu from Balfour, from the Knesset, from history, and from their feed.
There is an old saying: “If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck – it probably works for you.”
And in Israel in recent years, that duck is the radical discourse of the left: high-pitched voice, right-wing tone, flapping wings in hysteria – and in effect destroying everything that resembles a framework, responsibility, or a functioning state.