Leora Eisenberg
ARTICLES BY: Leora Eisenberg
The Truth About Breaking the Silence
Whenever someone tells me that they want to improve Israeli society, I’m all for it. I get excited about helping the Jewish state better itself. There’s...
Remember Them
Six-year old Abraham Freiburg had fled with his mother and long entertained the notion that Tati -- the Yiddish word for Daddy -- was only missing...
Action, Not Apathy, Is Key to Assisting in the Zionist Project
At a recent Israel activism conference I was attending, a friend told me something puzzling: “You know, Leora, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) is not...
Israel Activists Must Embrace Liberals, Not Shun Them
A few days ago, a friend sent me a social justice video. It was completely unrelated to Israel and instead had to do with racism...
Broken Windows: How US Universities Encourage Hate Speech Against Jews and Israel
The facade of a building conveys the general state of affairs inside. If a building is kept clean, we conclude that those inside it care...
The Twisted Morals of Anti-Israel Jewish Students
It takes a certain kind of moral distortion to stand against Israel nowadays -- the kind of moral distortion that comes with rebellious youthfulness, an overinflated ego,...
To Win the War of Ideas, Israel Must Be the ‘Underdog’ Again
As humans, we instinctively root for the underdog. Movies and books exalt the underfunded, undereducated (and often underage) underdog in his fight against the polished...