Huda Naccache, Miss Earth, Role Model

We need to change how we talk about Israel and Palestine—not as a symbol, but as a nation of people with distinct, intersecting identities.

Polarization surrounding Israel is especially intense in the American Jewish community. But loud voices do not equate to a growing majority.

The damage done by this propaganda – including the horrifying but deceptive pictures of ill children in Gaza and the false narrative created around them – is incalculable.

Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer and Mark Carney are now de facto benefactors of rogue states, the Oprahs of Gaza: “You get a state! And you get a state, too!”