Micha Danzig
ARTICLES BY: Micha Danzig
The Hostage-Taker’s Ledger
Three years ago this week, in less than 24 hours, Hamas murdered some 1,200 people in southern Israel and took over 250 hostages into Gaza....
The United Nations and the Fantasies That Feed the War
Two days before Emmanuel Macron told the UN General Assembly that Hamas had "never been active" in Judea & Samaria (aka, the "West Bank"), a...
Britain’s ‘Reset’ Is an Admission, Not a Policy
David Lammy’s successor at the Foreign Office, Ed Miliband, announced what he called a “comprehensive reset” of Britain’s relationship with Israel: sanctions on entities in...
The Haber Bargain: What Jewish Validators of Antisemitic Hate Refuse to Learn
Fritz Haber believed he'd made the trade that Jews in Germany had been taught, since the Enlightenment, would buy their acceptance. In 1892, fresh from...
The Gaza Stories That the Celebrity Class Never Correct
Fourteen thousand babies were going to die. Not eventually. Not over a year. Within 48 hours. That was the claim the world was given in May...
‘Uncivilized,’ Brought to You by Qatar
A YouTube channel with 440,000 subscribers just published a video that surpassed 450,000 views in six days. The channel, Uncivilized, brands itself as “entertainment rooted in...
Tisha B’Av: Every Generation Has Its Egypt and Its ‘Ten Spies’
This Wednesday night, Jews around the world will sit on the floor, remove their leather shoes, and read the Book of Lamentations by candlelight. Tisha B’Av,...
The Colonizer Claim Against Israel Fails History
If you try to defend Israel online or in the public sphere today, one of the first things you'll hear is that Israel is a...
What Really Happened During Rahm Emanuel’s Visit to Israel?
Rahm Emanuel flew to Tel Aviv last week to deliver what he billed as “tough love” from a true friend. He staged it as something...
The Most Dangerous Word After ‘Antisemitism’
Every generation invents new excuses for tolerating antisemitism. Increasingly, the hatred itself is left unstated. Instead, what changes is the justification for qualifying it: the...
“You Stopped Being Queer the Moment You Started Supporting Israel”
“You stopped being queer the moment you started supporting Israel.” That sentence, shouted at Democratic California State Senator Scott Wiener during San Francisco Pride this year,...
‘Never Again’ Requires More Than Remembering the Holocaust
This week, two seemingly unrelated stories unfolded hundreds of miles apart. In Massachusetts, a middle school principal apologized after a mandatory Holocaust lesson purportedly left some...
From Political Disagreement to Moral Accusation: Mamdani’s Dangerous Rhetoric
Last week, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani claimed that “the only thing more frightening [to AIPAC] than democracy being allowed to run its course...
The Deal Trump Warned About Is Apparently Now His Own
For years, Donald Trump hammered what he saw as the central flaw in the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran: that Iran would not keep...
