Oct 1, 2026 · 12 min · 7 segments
Welcome to the fourth episode of State of the Movement, a podcast wherein we discuss ideology, education, history and politics within the National Religious Zionist Movement in Israel, and the hard…
I'll never forget the feeling of sitting at a cafe when the last living hostages were released, and people broke into song and dance, hugging, crying, celebrating the unexpected light which had broken through a dark cloud.
My friends and I cocooned in Jerusalem between sirens and got used to the insanity of it all.
Despite the madness consuming the country, the Tel Aviv-Sach exchange boomed and the shekel climbed and climbed, weakening the value of the fellowship upon which I had embarked, but raising the value of the shekel I spent in New York this summer.
We saw protests over the matter of Haredi draft, and mounting frustration and anger towards that community and their seeming refusal to join Israeli society in sharing the heavy load of military service.
We saw violence perpetrated by Jews gain international attention and receive mostly a pair of kid gloves in response.
Today's recording follows the decision of the British government, the Netherlands government, and other European governments to impose sanctions on products from settlements in Judea and Samaria.
This move will inevitably be framed by politicians across the center to the right as an act of antisemitism.
Some will argue that the basis of these sanctions, the accusation of ethnic cleansing, is inaccurate and again antisemitic.
Others, i.e. political rivals on the left, will look at this shift in policy as a symptom of the current government's inability to adequately combat incidents of violence.
This recording also follows the applause granted directors Yuval Avraham and Rachel Schor for their film Nasa in Venice and the outrage Israeli figures across the political spectrum are expressing about it.
Nasa, for those who haven't yet read about it, recounts testimonies from 24 people identified as Israeli intelligence officers.
who discussed the system of selecting targets and calculating anticipated collateral damage, Nezek Agavi in Hebrew.
This recording also follows a year in which the Israeli government has over and over skirted responsibility for the uptick in violent crime in Judea and Samaria.
And yet the government has done little to nothing to stop this small handful when arrests can still go on freely in all other places where Israeli law is applied.
The Israeli police has allowed the highest number of murders in the Arab sector per year and is slow to arrest anyone in those cases either.
I'll never forget the feeling of sitting at a cafe when the last living hostages were released, and people broke into song and dance, hugging, crying, celebrating the unexpected light which had broken through a dark cloud.
My friends and I cocooned in Jerusalem between sirens and got used to the insanity of it all.
Despite the madness consuming the country, the Tel Aviv-Sach exchange boomed and the shekel climbed and climbed, weakening the value of the fellowship upon which I had embarked, but raising the value of the shekel I spent in New York this summer.
We saw protests over the matter of Haredi draft, and mounting frustration and anger towards that community and their seeming refusal to join Israeli society in sharing the heavy load of military service.
We saw violence perpetrated by Jews gain international attention and receive mostly a pair of kid gloves in response.
Today's recording follows the decision of the British government, the Netherlands government, and other European governments to impose sanctions on products from settlements in Judea and Samaria.
This move will inevitably be framed by politicians across the center to the right as an act of antisemitism.
Some will argue that the basis of these sanctions, the accusation of ethnic cleansing, is inaccurate and again antisemitic.
Others, i.e. political rivals on the left, will look at this shift in policy as a symptom of the current government's inability to adequately combat incidents of violence.
This recording also follows the applause granted directors Yuval Avraham and Rachel Schor for their film Nasa in Venice and the outrage Israeli figures across the political spectrum are expressing about it.
Nasa, for those who haven't yet read about it, recounts testimonies from 24 people identified as Israeli intelligence officers.
who discussed the system of selecting targets and calculating anticipated collateral damage, Nezek Agavi in Hebrew.
This recording also follows a year in which the Israeli government has over and over skirted responsibility for the uptick in violent crime in Judea and Samaria.
And yet the government has done little to nothing to stop this small handful when arrests can still go on freely in all other places where Israeli law is applied.
The Israeli police has allowed the highest number of murders in the Arab sector per year and is slow to arrest anyone in those cases either.
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