Accountability

When the bombs began to fall on Gaza, a prime minister reached into the Torah and pulled out its single darkest verse. Remember what Amalek did to you. He said it more than once. It ended up quoted at The Hague, in a case about genocide — the oldest command of erasure, aimed at a living people, in the twenty-first century. I am not a Jew. I will not presume to teach anyone their own tradition. But I have read deeply in it — I have sat with the Lurianic sparks and Adam Kadmon

On how a people stops repeating what was done to it. There is a way to carry a wound that heals you, and a way that carries you into harming someone else. Almost everything turns on telling them apart, and almost no one manages it under pressure. I want to work the hardest case I know — because a rule that survives the hardest case can be trusted everywhere else. Start where it has to start: plainly. The Holocaust was done to the Jewish people. Not befell them, not happened —

I left the last essay at a wall, and I want to start this one there, because the wall is the honest beginning. The machine has absorbed every outrage. It has buried its own dead — American dead — in silence, over and over, and never once been made to answer. If you have been waiting for the atrocity so large it finally breaks the spell, stop waiting. There isn't one. The spell does not break from grief. That theory has been tested with blood, and it lost. So here is the way o

Here is what people get wrong about power like this: they assume it hides. They picture a back room, a secret hand, a conspiracy you have to drag into the light. You don't. The enforcers of this movement don't whisper. They rent a ballroom in Las Vegas and say it into a microphone. Let me be precise about what I'm indicting, because precision is the whole fight — and I've earned the right to be careful with these words the hard way, as a man who once flew American ordnance fo

Most American Jews don't know what happened on February 28, 2026, in a town called Minab in southern Iran. They weren't told. The institutions claiming to speak for you — AIPAC, the ADL, the major Jewish federations — did not make it their business to tell you. That morning, when the United States and Israel began their assault on Iran, a missile struck a school. The school was called Shajareh Tayyebeh. The Good Tree. It was a name chosen because a school is meant to nourish,