Related: In the days following October 7th, Gol Kalev warned of a secondary idoelgicial assault coming from the West: Gaza war analysis – America Sunrise


Big picture: A turning point in Jewish history

Gol Kalev on American Sunrise, June 19, 2025

Latest: Trump’s decision to attack Iran

Gol Kalev on American Sunrise, June 21, 2025

Regime change?

Gol Kalev on American Sunrise, June 21, 2025

The other threat: Western assault on Israel

Gol Kalev on American Sunrise, June 21, 2025

Peace through strength

Gol Kalev on American Sunrise, June 19, 2025

Extreme Isolationism worked in the Middle-Ages

Gol Kalev on American Sunrise, June 19, 2025

Decades of neglect: Iran 2025 vs. Iraq 1981

Gol Kalev on American Sunrise, June 16, 2025

Distorted logic:Stopping crime by defunding the Police? 

Gol Kalev on American Sunrise, June 16, 2025

Day 1 : Saving the world from a nuclear Iran

Gol Kalev on American Sunrise, June 13, 2025.

Day -3: Dual imminent threats to the Jewish nation

Gol Kalev on American Sunrise, June 10, 2025. Watch Full interview


Also by Gol Kalev:

Countering Antisemitism Summit: Policy recommendations for President Trump

Wall Street Journal: The International Criminal Court’s threat to the U.S.

Amazon bestseller: The Assault on Judaism’ is making a big impact


Recent article:

A new proxy sanction war?:

The United Kingdom vs the United States

By Gol Kalev

Jerusalem Post, June 13, 2025


On February 14, 2025, Vice President JD Vance stunned the Munich Security Conference when he stated that the threat to Europe he worries about the most is not from an external actor; it is “the threat from within.” He described it as “the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values.” 

Vance gave examples of how Europe and the United Kingdom have moved away from values once shared with the United States, such as freedom of elections, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion.

Four months later, the UK is leading an attack on those American values through the sanctions it has imposed on the Jewish state. This, while Israel is in the midst of war.

Seventy-seven years after ending its physical occupation of Israel, the British are back, targeting Israeli sovereignty through sanctioning two elected Israeli officials whose views the British disagree with: Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.

The British are not only disenfranchising 10% of the Israeli electorate who voted for Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, they are also engaging in state-sponsored “cancel culture” against Israel’s religious Zionist community, which those ministers represent.

They are accused of vague “incitements of violence against Palestinian communities.” This is not only a blatant British attack on the concept of freedom of speech, but also an attempt to plant Jewish insecurity (subtle message to soldiers: spend less time on fighting Hamas, and more reviewing your text message: avoid saying “kill the enemy” or “go get them” – the British are watching).

Israelis on the Left and Right alike understand that the British attack has nothing to do with the two ministers. It is an ideological assault on Israel. Therefore, it unites Israelis in a similar way that the Hamas physical assault did after October 7.

The UK’s actions underscore that we are in the midst of a fast-moving attempt to negate the idea of the Jewish state and, through it, the idea of Judaism. As I discuss in my book, the assault on Judaism is also a proxy for an assault on America.

We need to address both the physical assault from Iran and proxies and the ideological assault from Europe and proxies concurrently, not sequentially. Both or on a ticking clock.

European anti-theism vs religious communities? 

It is no coincidence that the UK is targeting Israel’s religious community. Europe is on a trajectory from atheism to anti-theism. This is required for its “politically correct” battle against Islam, which is masked as merely opposition to overt religiosity (Vance described how, in the UK, a Christian was arrested for praying outside an abortion clinic).

As discussed in last week’s article, the British are deploying logic that is erringly similar to that of the 20th-century attempt to eradicate Judaism: If there are no Jews in Europe, Jews will stop “committing atrocities” against Europeans.

Similarly, if there are no Jews in Judea and Samaria, Jews will stop “committing atrocities” against Palestinians. Therefore, the UK and its partners are targeting the leaders of the community – last month, civil leaders, this month, elected officials.

Those Jewish “atrocities” are referred to by Europe and its proxies as “settler violence” –  a blood-libel promoted intensely after October 7, to underplay the Hamas attack and instill the notion that there are extremists on both side: On the one hand “extreme Palestinians” murdered 1,200 Jews on October 7, on the other, purportedly, “extreme settlers” engage in “widespread violence against Palestine communities.” (This is akin to saying: On the one hand, “extremist Europeans” send Jews to gas chambers, on the other, “extremist Jews” occupy European culture and pollute humanity).

On June 10, the UK fueled the incitement against Jews, as it claimed that there had been 1,900 attacks against Palestinian civilians between January 2024 and April 2025 – an annualized 1,400 attacks.

While even one single attack is deplorable, experts agree that this number likely includes verbal exchanges, acts of self-defense, and provoked altercations, as well as invented and unconfirmed incidents.

Yet even if we accept the UK figures, they are still only a fraction of the 6,000 confirmed attacks against Muslim civilians in the UK in 2024 alone.

“British violence” against Muslims in the UK, as reported by the BBC, is four times higher than alleged “Jewish violence” against Palestinians in the West Bank.

By the logic of the British government, the UK should sanction King Charles.

U.S. President Donald Trump holds a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 30, 2025. (credit: REUTERS/EVELYN HOCKSTEIN)/Jerusalem Post

To make it worse, the UK is not only targeting Jews, but also Palestinians (apparent “balanced bigotry”). Among the reasons for its sanctioning of Israel is the IDF’s intent to evacuate Gazan civilians from the battlefield to humanitarian zones.

The UK and Europe insist that Palestinians must remain among the rubble, on top of explosive-riddled tunnels and as human shields for Hamas, with limited food.

European colonialism

After all, how can Israel be accused by the International Criminal Court (ICC), the British Broadcasting Corporation (BCC), and European governments of starving Palestinians if those Palestinians are fed and safe in humanitarian zones?

This is European colonialism at its height: The Palestinians are being used as pawns for the Western assault on Judaism.

Some argue that this, too, is a proxy assault on the US: The UK sanctioning Israel for merely moving civilians within Gaza. Is it a “warning shot” to Trump, who seeks to help civilians move out of Gaza? 

Strengthening the view that this is a proxy sanction, the UK-led sanctions came just two days after the US sanctioned ICC judges, to the dismay of Europeans.

Gol Kalev speaks about the Assault on Judaism with Steve Linde on June 4th, 2025. JNS. Full Video

Reciprocal actions

To be clear, the UK is an ally, but it does not behave as such.

An ally does not attack friends from behind, as the US and Israel are front-facing a nuclear threat from Iran, a war with Hamas, missiles from Yemen, and hostages in Gaza.

The Trump response is rational: Rather than get drawn into brutal confrontations – physical war with Iran, sanction war with the UK and Europe, try to defuse it diplomatically first. And so, Secretary Rubio offered the UK a ladder, saying, “The United States urges the reversal of the sanctions and stands shoulder-to-shoulder with Israel.”

The British might do that, as a gesture to their “special relationship” with the US. After all, they can never win a sanctions war (it’s simple math). Yet, the assault from the UK and Europe will continue, and therefore, a long-term defense strategy is needed. 

As suggested in the Palm Beach Countering Antisemitism Summit, the US should negotiate with European and other countries a long-term pledge not to engage in, or collaborate with, any form of lawfare directed against the Jewish state or the United States. 

In addition, the US should negate the UK’s claim for legitimacy from the Biden-era “sanctioning Jews” program by taking measures that will ensure that those actions can never happen again (legislative or otherwise). 

The US should also use its leverage to refocus Europe and the UK from its obsessive stance of “Israeli-Palestinian conflict first” to that of “Europe first.” This will allow the UK and Europe to address the imminent threat to global stability, which the vice president so clearly articulated: The threat from within Europe.

The writer is the author of a new book, The Assault on Judaism: The Existential Threat Is Coming from the West. His Jerusalem Post column applies the ideas in the book to today’s policy decisions. He is also the chairman of the Judaism 3.0 think tank and author of Judaism 3.0: Judaism’s Transformation to Zionism (Judaism-Zionism.com)

Gol Kalev speaks at the “Why does the EU Matters” panel at the Palm. Beach Countering Antisemitism Summit. February 26, 2025. cover photo: Wikemedia Commons.

This article was published on June 13th, 2025 in Gol Kalev’s Jerusalem Post column, which applies the ideas in his book, The Assault on Judaism, to policy recommendations


Gol Kalev speaks with Dr. Gina Loudon on December 20, 2024. American Sunrise. Watch Full Interview;
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Gol Kalev’s ideas expressed in the articles and book are resonating: Making an impact

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Gol Kalev and Rt Hon. Joan Ryan speak at the Palm Bech Countering Antisemitism Conference on February 26, 2025
Participants in the Countering Antisemitism Summit (Photo: Tom Tracy)
Anybody subjected to decades of indoctrination by the BBC, Wagner, or Drumont will want their government to act against the Jews/Jewish state.“… La France juive by Édouard Drumont. National Library of France, source: Wikemedia

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The Assault on Judaism was launched on October 14th, at an event hosted by the Begin Center in Jerusalem. See clips, read summary: Press Release


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Jerusalem Report corer: Gol Kalevs new book

Read an excerpt and Summary of the Assault on Judaism: Jerusalem Report Cover – September 23, 2024

Cover of the September 23, 2024 Jerusalem Report magazine- Click on image for the PDF of the Magazine

The cover the September 23, 2024 issue of the Jerusalem Report features Gol Kalev’s new book:

Reprints from The Jerusalem Report, September 23, 2024, By Gol Kalev

Judaism is facing its greatest survival challenge since the Jews were deported from Judea, as a nuanced, layered, yet fast-paced assault is coming from the West.

Every few centuries there is an attempt to eradicate Judaism, using destruction mechanisms that are relevant to the time. Sometimes, it is done through an attempt to kill Jews by Jews, such as in Europe during the 20th century and during the Crusades of the 12th century. Sometimes it is done through an attempt to destroy Judaism collectively, as an idea, such as in Spain during the 15th century and by the Greeks during the 2nd century BCE. 

Today, Hamas, Iran, and its proxies are attempting to destroy Judaism Jew by Jew through a physical assault. However, they do not have the capabilities to eradicate Judaism. Those destruction mechanisms are housed in the West and are carried through an ideological assault on Judaism.

Like previous large-scale assaults, the attack is being channeled through the most relevant aspect of Judaism at the time. In our era, this aspect is Zionism, which has become the anchor of Judaism.

In my 2022 book Judaism 3.0: Judaism’s Transformation to Zionism, I showed that we are in the midst of a historic transformation of Judaism. I identified Israel-bashing as an existential threat to the survival of Judaism. I argued that recognizing that we are in Judaism 3.0 could help counter the threat, as the Israel-basher must stay in Judaism 2.0 – the illusion that Judaism is merely a religion. This allows the attacker to express “zero tolerance to antisemitism” (the threat to Jews and Judaism in the 20th century), while partaking in Israel-bashing (the threat to Jews and Judaism in the 21st century). 

The Jerusalem Report dedicated the cover of its 2022 New Year issue to the book, with an article titled “Judaism’s transformation to Zionism – Countering the Israel-bashing movement,”which summarized the main thesis of the book. Since then, October 7 turned Judaism 3.0 from a thesis to a depiction of day-to-day life. 

In my new book, The Assault on Judaism, which is being released in September, I describe the path to destruction of Judaism that was triggered on October 7. I show the interdependence between the physical attack and the ideological attack that followed, including how inevitable it was for friendly Western governments, which ferociously defend the Jewish state from physical attack, to partake in the ideological assault on Judaism.

I show the gradual activation of the destruction mechanisms. This includes the ICC and the ICJ setting the legal groundwork for the arrest of Jews en masse, and of Western governments, such as France, pledging in advance their collaboration – just as they did 80 years ago, the last time arrest warrants were issued against Jews en masse.

I show how an ecosystem is being developed for collective destruction of Judaism through DAS – demoralization, attrition, and sanctions. I also show how just like in the previous large-scale assault, there is an understandable, yet laughable, attempt to carve out “Good Jews” (Jews in America) from “Bad Jews” (Jews in Israel/Jews in the IDF/Jews in settlements).

Throughout my analysis, I draw not only on lessons from previous large-scale assaults on Judaism but also on the wisdom of Theodor Herzl, whose frameworks are becoming more and more relevant today. Indeed, just as Herzl identified back then, the lethal part of today’s assault does not come from the hard-core Israel-bashers on the fringe but from mainstream people in positions of power, who control the destruction mechanism. Those “Israel-bashers lite,” some of whom are my friends, are certainly not “organic antisemites” but are influenced by the pressure generated by the Israel-basher movement.

The ideological assault on Judaism has turned into a threat to global stability, but it has been all but ignored. A paradigm shift is needed – abandoning old conceptions and crafting long-term and short-term defense strategies correlated to the existential threat.

 Gol Kalev lectures about the assault on Judaism that is coming from the West, in a September 13, 2023, Judaism 3.0 event at the Begin Center in Jerusalem. (credit: AVIGAIL TRESGALLO)
Gol Kalev lectures about the assault on Judaism that is coming from the West, in a September 13, 2023, Judaism 3.0 event at the Begin Center in Jerusalem. (credit: AVIGAIL TRESGALLO)

This is what I do in the last few chapters of the book, focusing on different stops along the path to destruction of Judaism, and tailoring a different strategy to counter each of those stops. I am glad that the book is already making an impact, and grateful that some of those in governments and media partaking in the assault invited me to present the arguments in the book, even before it was published.

Now The Jerusalem Report readers have the opportunity to be among the first to read an edited excerpt from the overview to the section of the book that outlines the strategies to intercept the path of destruction of Judaism.

Putting together an effective defense strategy against a large-scale assault involves three basic elements: acknowledging that indeed there is an assault; determining who is committing the assault; and identifying the arena in which the assault is being carried out. In the October 7 physical assault on Judaism, it was quite clear: We were indeed under a large-scale assault. It was carried out by Hamas, and the arena was Gaza. The same clarity exists for the ideological assault on Judaism: We are indeed under a large-scale assault on Judaism. It is coming from the West, and the arena for the attack on Judaism is Zionism.

Point of attack on Judaism: Zionism

To state the obvious, Zionism is not the reason for the attack on Judaism. It is the vehicle through which the ideological assault on Judaism is being made. That is because Zionism has become the anchor of Judaism.

Historically, large-scale attacks on Judaism have always been carried out through the most relevant aspect of Judaism of that time. When Judaism was anchored in the Temple, the Greeks tried to eradicate Judaism by desecrating the Temple, and the Romans by burning it. When Jews were organized in insular communities and bound together through the religious aspect of Judaism, the assault on Judaism was carried out through its theological and religious aspects. When Jews were given rights and lived freely in Europe, the attack was on the emancipated Jews – their success, freedom, and power. 

Now that the Jewish state was reestablished and is thriving, Israel-bashing and anti-Zionism have replaced traditional antisemitism as the vehicle of opposition to Judaism. This is quite natural, as more and more of the world’s touchpoints with Judaism are now through Israel and Zionism.

Theodor Herzl, the father of Zionism, wrote: “How can we tell the power of an idea? When we see that nobody can ignore it – whether he is for it or against it.” 

Zionism today is the one aspect of Judaism that cannot be ignored, including in opposition. Indeed, criticism of Israel has become the number one Jewish-related activity for many American Jews, by far more than going to synagogue, thinking about the Holocaust, or engaging in Jewish cultural activities.

In previous chapters of the book, I outlined the path to the destruction of Judaism and showed that we are already far along this path. To intercept that path of destruction, we need to have a deep and nuanced understanding of the various stops along this path, and tailor a defense strategy for each of those steps:

• The hard-core Israel-bashers who are leading the assault on Judaism through “pro-Palestinian” activities and slander the Jewish state and its citizens

• The Israel-bashers lite, who may not be organic Israel-bashers but are influenced by incitement in the media and by the pressure of the hard-core Israeli-bashers

• Governments that ultimately have the capabilities to activate the destruction mechanism of Judaism but also have the capabilities to defend Judaism

Each group along this path has its unique motivations, characteristics, and vulnerabilities.

Cover of Gol Kalev’s new book – The Assault on Judaism
Hard-core Israel-bashers

The hard-core Israel-bashers are the ones who drive public opinion against the Jews. They are the face of the assault on Judaism. They carry the “From the river to the sea” banners and accuse the Jewish state of genocide. They are the most vocal part of the assault on Judaism. However, they do not possess the destruction mechanism.

While they are not a homogeneous group, the crux of that part of the assault on Judaism are young progressives, driven by DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) and woke values. They are characterized by strong conviction. To their credit, most of them act on a strong belief that they are doing the right thing, per their understanding of the world.

While they have strong convictions, most of them lack content. They are not acting based on firsthand experience or independent research but rather on secondhand sound bites they get from their social networks, their friends, and their “clergy” (be they progressive professors, liberal news organizations, popular social media influencers, or opinion leaders). They express their opposition to Judaism through being “pro-Palestinian,” which in their social circles is akin to being pro-women, pro-minorities, or pro-justice.

A Catalan separatist once told me that the primary problem of their separatist movement is that they are occupied by Spain and not by Israel. If they were occupied by Israel, the entire world would be pro-Catalan, and nobody would have ever heard of Palestine.

Indeed, most of those hard-core Israel-bashers waving a Palestinian flag could not find Palestine on a map. But that is utterly irrelevant. 

Western pro-Palestinianism has become a culture, a fashion, and a social trend. This, for example, was expressed in the September 2023 University of Pennsylvania festival Palestine Writes. For an American to write about a longing for a physical Palestine that he has never been to, nor heard much about, is rather absurd. However, he can write about injustice, about how he can imagine life under occupation, about the travesty of oppression, the cancer of fascism, and the malaise of Zionism – and, by extension, of Judaism – which, after all, represents a counter-diversity, counter-inclusivity concept to him.

Indeed, hard-core Israel-bashers, expressed through the Western pro-Palestinian movement, are driven by their opposition to colonialism, racism, suppression of freedoms, and the violation of human rights. Palestinians are merely a vehicle.

The way to address this group is to demonstrate that the Western pro-Palestinian movement is a Western colonialist movement that hijacked the plight of Palestinians for its own benefit.

While the intention of many Western pro-Palestinians is good, they should be aware that when they put on their keffiyeh, wave the Palestinian flag and head to the protest, they are engaging in Islamophobia, bigotry, racism, and white colonialism.

Palestinians and pro-Palestinians are two different, competing movements. They have different long-term objectives, short-term goals, cultures, symbols, ethos, mottos, and banners. In the clash between the interests of pro-Palestinians and Palestinians, it is clear who wins. The Western pro-Palestinian movement is well funded, organized, and structured, with access to resources and power. 

As will be discussed in Chapter 11, this is reflected in Western pro-Palestinians systematic suppression of basic Palestinian rights, such as freedom of employment, freedom of consumption, property rights, and even the right to control their assets. 

Western pro-Palestinians even engage in an act of racism when they wear their keffiyeh. Indeed, the keffiyeh is today’s blackface – a demeaning stereotype of an Arab of a previous century – not of today. Such dehumanization continues when it comes with the Western pro-Palestinian attempt to deny Palestinian refugees in Gaza the right to choose whether to stay or flee the war zone. The Western pro-Palestinian movement is dependent on the misery of their Palestinian victims, and hence acts to perpetuate it, to the tune of millions of dollars.

The most effective way to defend against the attack from hard-core Israel-bashers is to bring the battle to them, and that is what Chapter 11 in the book describes: “Arena shifting: Bring the battle to the Israel-bashers’ turf.”

Israel-bashers lite

The Israel-bashers lite may have no organic interest in the assault on Judaism, but they are influenced by the pressures created by the hard-core Israel-bashers and act on it. 

Unlike the hard-core Israel-bashers who show their opposition mostly through rhetoric, since they do not have a destruction mechanism, the Israel-bashers lite can assault Judaism in both rhetoric and actions – they are the ones who possess the destruction mechanisms of Judaism. They are normative people in government, media, and international organizations.

They are sensitive to public sentiment and to their assessment of where “the wind is blowing.” The politicians in this group need to get reelected; civil servants need to execute the will of those they serve; journalists need to provide information to the public that reflects the public sentiment. As that journalist who rationalized the distorted headline “Israel kills dozens of Palestinians” put it, “This is what Europeans want to hear.”

This group is not only normative, but they want to stay normative. They are therefore risk-averse and vulnerable to social pressures. They do not want to separate from the prevailing wisdoms and the presumed principles of their milieu. As a result, this group is easily influenced by incitement against the Jewish state. Israel-bashers lite are not “organic Israel-bashers”; they are “reactionary Israel-bashers.”

Unlike the hard-core Israel-basher, the one thing the normative Israel-bashers lite fear is being perceived as antisemites. While being anti-Zionist and an Israel-basher is socially acceptable and even encouraged in certain circles, being anti-Jewish is a career-ending taboo. 

Israel-bashers lite operate in an echo chamber that assures them that their participation in the assault on Judaism is not antisemitic.

Once there is a broad recognition that Judaism has transformed and Zionism is now the anchor of Judaism, Israel-bashers lite will be deterred. In Chapter 12, I describe how Israel-bashers lite can come on their own to the realization that the world increasingly now views Israel-bashing and Jew-bashing as synonymous.

Governments

Hard-core Israel-bashers fueled the assault, and Israel-bashers lite activated the destruction mechanisms. However, Israel-bashers can only go so far down the path to eradicate Judaism. They need to engage the full power of governments. 

This was the case in previous episodes of assault. The antisemitism ideology that became popular in Europe in the early 20th century was mostly in rhetoric until a government – the German government – stepped in. Haman’s strategy to eradicate the Jews in the Book of Esther would also been in theory only, had the Persian king not decided to engage the full force of the Persian government.

This is the case today. As it became clear in 2024 that European and other governments opted to participate in the contemporary assault on Judaism, it is now left up to the United States to intercept the path to the destruction of Judaism.

The good news is that those other governments that partake in the ideological assault are dependent on the United States for their economic, political, and national security. The US has enormous leverage.

Assault on Judaism as proxy for assault on America

Let’s be clear: The assault on Judaism is also a proxy for assault on Americanism. This is both conceptually, in an attempt to negate the principles of the American Revolution and its Judeo-Christian basis. 

The infrastructure that is being set by the ICC and the ICJ to arrest Israeli soldiers and political leaders can also serve as a “plug and play” template to be used against American soldiers and political leaders. 

Just as Iran views the Jewish state as “Little Satan” and attacks it in part as a proxy to attacking America – “Big Satan,” the same is with the ideological assault on Judaism. If Israel, which international military experts state has the most moral army in the world, is “Little war criminal,” America in the attackers’ view is “Big war criminal” and can be next.

Indeed, on May 28, 2024, South Africa’s Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor revealed that her country was planning to do exactly that: The US is next, she promised. Similarly, the assault on Judaism destabilizes the world and triggered a series of unrelated conversation under the “pro-Palestinian” banner – from the nascent discussion of Spanish occupation of the Iberian Peninsula to disruption of the American higher education system.

For this and other reasons, the assault on Judaism should not be treated as a matter of antisemitism but as a US national security issue. As discussed in Chapter 13, the assault on Judaism is a way to “launder” an attempt to destabilize America.

If one can intercept the assault on Judaism, one prevents the subsequent assault on America.

The US has the ability to intercept the destruction mechanism of Judaism; for example, by sanctioning the ICC and those who collaborate with it.

This is not the first time the US faced such a decision. During the previous large-scale assault on Judaism in the 1940s, the US had the ability to intercept the destruction mechanism used at the time. President Franklin D. Roosevelt evaluated the proposal to disrupt those mechanisms in the context of the range of threats the United States was facing at the time.

For the United States, neutralizing the death camps where the Nazis carried out their plan to eradicate Judaism by killing Jew by Jew would have taken resources from other crucial operations. FDR made the prioritization call and allowed the path of destruction to continue.

In our era’s assault on Judaism, it is the reverse: Disrupting the destruction mechanisms of Judaism is defending America. As discussed, the assault on Judaism embodies both a short-term and a long-term threat to America. 

Unlike in the 1940s, the United States today has the capability, capacity, and pressing national interest to disrupt the assault on Judaism on its multiple levels, using various tools at its disposal and in so doing, defining America. Chapter 13 discusses those tools and offers some simple and immediate measures the US government can take to disrupt the assault

Gol Kalev is author of Assault on Judaism: The Existential Threat Is Coming from the West (TheAssaultonJudaism.com). He is chair of the Judaism 3.0 Think Tank and author of Judaism 3.0: Judaism’s Transformation to Zionism (Judaism-Zionism. com).


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