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The Bad History of ‘Palestine 36’
An Oscar short-listed film, funded by Qatar, Turkey, and the BBC, rewrites the past to serve a modern political fantasy.
Oren Kessler
How a Cornell Professor Drove an Israeli Student out of His Class
‘I don’t have to give both sides,’ the professor said, unleashing a clash between academic freedom and discrimination.
Johanna Berkman
What to Expect in 2026 with Niall Ferguson, John McWhorter, Dr. Mark Hyman, Leandra Medine Cohen, Suzy Weiss, and Sarah Isgur
What’s in store for 2026? We ask experts and friends of the pod.
Bari Weiss
2HR 27M
What We Got Wrong This Year
Niall Ferguson, Tyler Cowen, Nellie Bowles, Suzy Weiss, and other Free Press writers fess up to mistakes they made this year.
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Antisemitism Is Infecting Human Rights Groups—My Charity Had to Act
Philanthropist Sigrid Rausing says her trust had to cut grants to organizations that mixed calls for social justice with apologies for October 7.
Sigrid Rausing
What We Learned This Year
Allie Beth Stuckey, Amanda Knox, H.R. McMaster, Natan Sharansky, Vinay Prasad, Emily Oster, and others on their takeaways from 2025.
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Where Israel Goes Next. The Real War on Christmas. Plus. . .
The churches with lines out the door, how the Tate brothers fled Romania, and more.
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The U.S. Needs Israeli Innovation for Our Defense
Without Israeli experience, technology, and collaboration, the U.S. will be less safe.
Michael Doran
Matti Friedman: Israel Had a Disorienting 2025. What Comes Next?
As the world’s attention moves away from the Jewish State, its people are left to pick up the pieces.
Matti Friedman
Amnesty International Can’t Handle the Truth About Hamas
A planned report on the terrorist group’s crimes turned into a moral muddle, including a long critique of Israel.
Charles Lane
Bondi Beach and the Long History of Anti-Zionist Violence
What is at stake is not a ‘conflation’ between Jews and Zionists, but the power of anti-Israel hatred itself.
Adam Louis-Klein
Rachel Goldberg-Polin: ‘I Saw Our Dead Son Suddenly Alive Again’
Newly public footage shows Hersh and his fellow hostages lighting a menorah in captivity. It is a reminder that, even in the bleakest of circumstances…
Rachel Goldberg-Polin
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