Bundestag meeting of the Committee for Culture and Media. I was invited as an expert witness. The topic: "Protecting Jewish Life." No comment regarding the session itself. Here is the statement I contributed (as published by the Bundestag): Statement for the expert discussion held by the Committee on
in Halle, "Seitenwechsel" (Turning page) - initiated and organized by my publisher Susanne Dagen - attracted around 10,000 visitors this past weekend. My friends Henryk Broder and co-editor Simone Schermann appeared there to present our book about October 7th in front of several hundred people - many of whom
I’ve had a terrible week. A magazine I’ve been contributing to regularly has gone bust and is having to cease publication. With another editor, I’m on the verge of ending our relationship—only a certain sense of propriety is holding me back (though propriety tends to play
and all those who believed he could solve our problem. We can only solve it ourselves. The mullah regime must fall; otherwise, there will never be peace in the Middle East. Will Trump continue his efforts? Or will he now back down? Regardless, we have no choice but to stand
with a number of visitors from abroad is now behind us. On Monday, a bus full of Christian friends of Israel from Germany arrived here in the desert—I commended them for their courage, as they were the first to visit us since the war broke out. We also had
On Yesterday’s Parliamentary Elections in Israel Yesterday’s parliamentary elections in Israel were highly anticipated—some even described them as a "fateful election." Voter turnout was unusually high; according to media reports, it was the highest in Israel’s history. Of the 37 parties that ran, 11
of government tomorrow. The current Prime Minster is already too long in office. His last term was marked by the greatest state failure in New Israel's history, the desaster of October 7th. His fragile coalition was being blackmailed by the ultra-Orthodox parties. I believe I feel much
whom I met on the street yesterday, had just been able to return to work in Israel after three years of being barred due to the war. He was beaming with happiness at the prospect of working again and earning some money for his family. He was scheduled to repair
even the French government has good ideas. According to Israeli sources: "Shin Bet Director David Zini met with senior French intelligence officials in Paris to discuss counterterrorism and radical Islam amid widespread riots and violent protests across France (...) Zini arrived in France on Tuesday for a working visit, during
are direct and uninhibited. Yesterday, I was standing at a traffic light across from the university in Be’er Sheva, just finishing a phone call with my wife—in German, naturally—when a young Israeli, a student who was also waiting at the light, asked me: “You speak German? Where
...American tech billionaire Jensen Huang said yesterday, referring to Germany’s technological decline. This applies to all of Western Europe—nations that were once inspiring and highly developed, but are now becoming lethargic, being hijacked by militant minorities. Their politicians are cowards. Their own youth have not learned to defend
Again, the toxic combination of leftists and militant young Muslims. A real powder keg. Europe, brace yourselves! You ushered them into your countries, you played along, you let them set the agenda, you let yourselves be infected by their hatred of Jews—and you fail to grasp that they hate