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Middle East: Executive director of the J'accuse Coalition for Justice, a think tank specialized in Middle Eastern affairs
"The reason Israel takes center stage in most discussions of Middle Eastern politics is because it is viewed as a Jewish collective. And therefore it is subject to heightened scrutiny and a different set of standards than any other country in the region or even the world."
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US Politics: Executive director of the J'accuse Coalition for Justice, a think tank specialized in fighting antisemitism.
"Antisemitism in US politics today is treated as a political football, tossed around by Democrats and Republicans alike in order to score points. In reality, this is a unique form of bigotry that affects both political extremes, and for that reason it requires a separate paradigm to understand."
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Israel: Executive director of the J'accuse Coalition for Justice, a think tank specialized in combating anti-Zionism and anti-Israel bias
"Anti-Zionists attack Jewish identity by pretending that Zionism is merely political. They conveniently elide the centrality of Israel to Judaism, as manifested in our texts, prayers, rituals, and communal narrative. And they downplay the role Israel plays as a Jewish safe haven, despite the significance this has for most of the world’s Jews whose grandparents survived the Holocaust in Europe, escaped expulsions and mob murders in the Middle East, or fled pogroms in the Soviet Union."
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Jewish History: Executive director of the J'accuse Coalition for Justice, a think tank specialized in fighting antisemitism
"Throughout history, Jews have always been the shape-shifting demon that represents evil for any given culture. To the communists, we were the capitalists. To the capitalists, we were the communists."
