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“Her prose disrupted my mind,” I wrote, “confronting me with words I had never seen come together before.”
David Suissa is Publisher & Editor-in-Chief of Tribe Media/Jewish Journal, where he has been writing a weekly column on the Jewish world since 2006. In 2015, he was awarded first prize for "Editorial Excellence" by the American Jewish Press Association. Prior to Tribe Media, David was founder and CEO of Suissa Miller Advertising, a marketing firm named “Agency of the Year” by USA Today. He sold his company in 2006 to devote himself full time to his first passion: Israel and the Jewish world. David was born in Casablanca, Morocco, grew up in Montreal, and now lives in Los Angeles with his five children.

“Her prose disrupted my mind,” I wrote, “confronting me with words I had never seen come together before.”

We may be able to tolerate an irrational mob that goes after anything associated with Israel, but academics whose lives revolve around the search for truth and knowledge?

Anti-Zionism is wrong whether or not it is anti-Semitic. But how do we make that case when the word Zionism has become so toxic?

Why do you think the song has triggered such an uproar among the “Israel rhymes with genocide” crowd? Because it demolishes their case.

The master of this subterfuge is the savvy Mamdani, who makes socialism look as sweet and innocent as a community library.

From Trump’s standpoint, the nuclear issue has been overtaken by the bedeviling problem of the Strait of Hormuz. What Trump sees now in Iran is a mess, not a victory.

The world’s fanatical fixation with a group that is less that 0.2 percent of the world’s population has crossed the boundaries of moral vocabulary and into creepiness.

It’d be one thing if Mamdani were a lowly Israelophobe with a few hundred followers. But he’s not. He’s mayor of the city with the world’s largest Jewish population.

At the very least, the case would provide a global stage to debunk the genocide lie that is devastating world Jewry.

The film reminded me that an ancient poet could write about massacres but also about moral courage, while terrorists who dream of killing Jews can only think of going right to the massacre.