Two polls, one warning: Democratic base turns on Israel while Jewish voters stay the course for Democrats

A tale of two polls landed this week, and together they reveal a fracture in American political life that should alarm every friend of Israel and every American Jew who has not yet done the math.
Governor of Samaria offers honorary citizenship to Christian Zionists

“He [the mayor of Paris] is offering citizenship to the PA, also to Fatah (PLO), also to Hamas, and he will bring them all honorary citizenship of Paris. And I must tell you, sisters and brothers, as governor of Samaria, I invite you to be honorary citizens of Samaria and Judea.”
Never again means never again: Israel enacts death penalty for terrorists. The world responds with selective outrage.

IDF Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth signed a military order putting into force the Knesset’s death penalty legislation, mandating capital punishment by hanging for Palestinians in Judea and Samaria convicted of deadly terrorist attacks in military courts.
Annexation or salvation? The bill that would put Israel in charge of its own biblical heritage

The Knesset Education, Culture and Sports Committee is racing against a parliamentary clock to advance a bill that would place Judea and Samaria, Israel’s biblical heartland, under direct Israeli civilian authority when it comes to its thousands of archaeological sites.
The countdown has begun: A conversation with Rabbi Elie Mischel, Part 1

As Rabbi Elie Mischel released Countdown: American Jews and God’s Plan for Redemption, a congressional candidate rose in the polls after calling to imprison American Zionists for treason. Rabbi Mischel explains why he believes the growing hostility toward Jews is part of God’s plan for redemption.
Will the America First movement abandon Israel?

Charlie Kirk was worried. Privately, in conversations and in a letter he sent to Prime Minister Netanyahu roughly five months before he was killed, Kirk outlined what he saw coming: a younger generation of America First conservatives being systematically turned against Israel, and Israel doing almost nothing to stop it.
An Indiana tragedy. A mission that reached Gaza.

Six years ago, Scott Dodson stood in a hospital and said goodbye to his brother, who tragically bled out on the side of an Indiana road after a head-on collision with a truck. First responders resuscitated him three and four times just to keep him alive long enough for the family to get there. It was the last time Dodson would see him.
Texas Democrat calls to imprison and castrate “Zionists”

Galindo, a former sex therapist running in Texas’s 35th Congressional District around San Antonio, posted on Instagram last week that if elected, she would “turn Karnes ICE Detention Center into a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers.
Israel’s finance minister has a plan to kill the two-state solution. For good.

Thirty-three years after the Oslo Accords were signed, Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has a message for the world: it’s over. The framework is dead. And Israel has roughly two years to make that permanent.
Why did God give the Bible to idol worshippers?

I’ve spent the last two years thinking and writing about this question, and I’ve come to believe it is directly connected to the greatest crisis facing the American Jews today. That crisis, and the answer to this ancient question, are the subject of my new book, Countdown: American Jews and God’s Plan for Redemption, published this week.