Guest Column

Confronted by unsettling social change, some Israelis projected their unease onto a figure who embodied it – Israel’s most dominant and resilient political figure.

Instead of criticizing Mike Huckabee's meetings with Jonathan Pollard, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, along with the criticism of his television ads before his appointment, Israeli media and public should be "celebrating" the fact that the United States finally has an ambassador who understands Israel's situation from the depths of his heart and defends it without any apology or reservation.

Echoing the rhetoric of Poland’s far-right nationalist camp, Rose declared that suggesting Poles had any role in the Shoah was “a grotesque falsehood and the equivalent of a blood libel against the Polish people and Polish nation.”

The two high-profile activists will headline strikes in Genoa and Rome on November 28–29, shifting the focus from labor demands to anti-Israel and anti-Western narratives that blend environmentalism with partisan geopolitics.

When I look forward, I feel hopeful. There is a generation we can trust. Our role is to look at them, believe in them, give them the right tools, and prepare them — and ourselves — for the challenges that lie ahead for all of us.

Context is critical. Americans who sided with Palestinians did not understand what 'from the river to the sea' actually meant; Israelis who dismissed Mandami as antisemitic did not understand the complexities of New York politics. And here I was, a lifelong Zionist and educator, forced to choose between cynicism about the past and hope for the future.

Behind the criminal incident lies a management lesson: how organizations lose the ability to distinguish between illusory and real security. The Louvre heist didn't happen despite the advanced security systems, but largely because of them.

While the parties in Gaza seek a fragile peace, extremism is reigniting in Italy. Pro-Palestinian demonstrations are degenerating, journalists are being attacked, and police officers are being injured. Landini's CGIL union is providing logistical support to radical movements, while opposition groups that have embraced pro-Palestinian views are watching in silence.

In the Trump deal they left a gap the size of Shalom Tower regarding the deceased hostages, and it was obvious that Hamas would go through it and squeeze the life out of us, keep assets we will not be able to recover, and Israel will now have to invent levers to fix that.

Europe has abdicated its role as a geopolitical actor. Despite its geographical proximity and economic weight, it prefers to take refuge in the role of moralist who judges from afar. And Italy, which should have the strength to lead a more pragmatic Europe, limits itself to chasing slogans.