Radical Islam is not a “local problem” or a “passing wave of terror” – it is part of a deep cultural-religious conflict between opposing worldviews. The question is not whether there will be a Third World War, but whether the West will recognize that it is already in it.
What have we learned? Forgetting is forbidden, trusting is forbidden, losing is impossible
Two years after 10/7, the clear lesson is that the Jewish people must not be confused: not to believe in any promise of “world peace”, not to forget the price of complacency, and not to assume that the Western world will protect us.
We are a people who survived 3,000 years, rose from the ashes of great empires, built a progressive state in the heart of the Middle East – and then willingly choose to spend seven days in a makeshift tent in a parking lot. If that isn’t proof of Jewish tenacity, I don’t know what is.
October 2025. As the level of anti-Semitism in Europe rises, Britain is experiencing identity attacks, and we are trying to decide whether to invite someone who is considered an “enemy of the public” there or a “friend of the Jews.”
In the Israel of 2025, we have a threat from the north, the south, the east – and also from central Tel Aviv. They say that every bad thing has a good side, but it’s hard to find advantages in the crowd that comes with Israeli flags to demonstrate against… Israel, with hundreds of thousands of followers in Arabic translating the signs live.
Confused Europe wanted to indulge in green energy, wind turbines, and turbines begging for the sun in mid-December. But Putin, who still controls the gas and oil taps, knows that when it’s cold and the pipeline is closed, ideologies melt like snow in Russia in April.
There are days in the Jewish calendar that manage, in some supernatural, almost mystical way, to stop time. Yom Kippur is one of them. It doesn’t matter if you are a religious Israeli or a completely secular one who feels that the closest rabbi to you is the shawarma man at the Carmel Market. Perhaps this is the essence of true Zionism: a country where Yom Kippur is not a day off from work to go shopping, but a day off to stop.
There are certain things in life: the sun rises in the east, traffic jams on the Ayalon Highway, and every September the Israeli Prime Minister comes to New York to speak in front of a hall full of representatives of countries who cluck their tongues and vote for anything that undermines Israel’s existence.
“What are they trying to sell us in pop culture – and why does every rapper today sound like a spokesperson for the United Nations?”
The interview with Macron could have been a moment in which Israel held up a mirror to Europe. Instead, we got another hour of television that reminded us why the right-wing public in Israel treats everything coming from center-left channels with suspicion.
What Are They Trying to Sell Us in the Name of “The Protest”
November 30, 2025
