Last Thursday, at the American Jewish Press Association‘s 45th Annual Simon Rockower Awards Reception and Dinner in New York, I received the David Twersky Journalism Award for Is Israel Losing...
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Welcome Back Casey Neistat. Now Let Us Tell You About That Time in Tel Aviv.
Exactly two years ago today I found myself at the Nas Daily Summit in Tel Aviv, and honestly? It was one of those events where you walk in already impressed and walk out kind of speechless. The...
The Aftermath of Europe’s Last Pogrom
In the summer of 1992, I walked through the streets of Kielce, Poland. I stopped elderly residents to ask about a massacre that had happened forty-six years earlier. No one would talk to me about...
Welcome Home: Spain Beats Its Own Flotilla Heroes at the Airport.
On Saturday, six members of the Basque delegation to the Global Sumud Flotilla landed at Bilbao airport after being deported from Israel via Turkey. Supporters and family members had gathered in the...
Israel Is Losing Its Friends. Here Is How We Get Them Back.
The Knesset is dissolving. Elections are coming in October. And I am standing in the Mahane Yehuda market with my kids, watching an old Kurdish vendor arrange tangerines next to a Haredi family...
How Foreign Adversaries Turned Your Righteous Anger Into a Weapon Against You
Every day, millions of people log onto social media absolutely certain they have identified the enemy. Not a political opponent, not someone who sees the world differently, but an irredeemable...
Eurovision 2026: Boy George to Roger Waters: Hold My Star of David
Apparently Boy George was huge before I was born. My mom had a poster of him, a t-shirt, saw him live, dressed like him, the whole thing. A certified stan, which is honestly hard to square with the...
The Billion-Dollar Bill for Campus Bigotry
If you take a look at the current state of the American campus, it’s clear the ivy is finally being stripped off the walls. Not by shame, moral clarity or righteous indignation but rather by a...