WhatsappOne of the things I love most about what I do is the opportunity to speak with all types of people, all types of Jews, and all types of Israelis. Religious, secular, right-wing, left-wing — it does not matter to me. I genuinely love the conversations.
Because at the end of the day I am motivated by a deep love for our people, our land, our history, and our future.
And I especially value the opportunity to share an unapologetic, inspiring truth about Israel and the Jewish people that receives very little space in mainstream discourse today. In fact, too often these perspectives are mocked, ridiculed, delegitimized, or dismissed outright by authority figures in the media, academia, and even within parts of the Jewish community itself.
Many times in Israel, this opens the door for me to speak with young people who are extremely secular and deeply left-wing. And honestly? I love it.
I love being challenged. I love difficult questions. I love serious conversations.
Because despite all the polarization and noise, many of these young Israelis are intelligent, thoughtful, and genuinely searching for truth. Very often, I can see in real time that they are hearing information and perspectives they were simply never exposed to before. Not because they are unintelligent, but because entire parts of Israel’s reality have been filtered out of the educational and media environments in which they were raised.
After one recent talk, the educator running the program told me: “You opened their minds to information they never heard before.”
That meant a lot to me.
And I always tell them the same thing: “Do not trust me because I said it. Look it up yourselves.”
I am not there to brainwash anyone. I am there to expand horizons, challenge assumptions, and encourage critical thinking in a society where too many narratives have become untouchable dogma.
But I would be lying if I said some of these conversations do not also leave me saddened.
Because from some of the questions and comments, it becomes painfully clear that there are young Israelis today who have been conditioned to feel more animosity toward right-wing religious Jews than toward the Arab Muslim jihadist enemy openly calling for all of our deaths, yes, even after October 7th.
There are young Jews who seem more troubled by Jews defending themselves than by enemies celebrating Jewish murder.
Some speak more passionately about protecting the “rights” of hostile enemy populations living among us than about ensuring the safety and survival of their own people.
And perhaps most troubling of all, there is often a total disconnect from the reality that the jihad Israel faces is the very same jihad now spreading chaos, violence, intimidation, and societal breakdown throughout France, Britain, Germany, and across the Western world.
Many have been taught to believe that someone openly committed to murdering Jews must still automatically be granted moral equivalence, equal legitimacy, and equal rights, while at the same time they fall into moral hysteria comparing violent Jews to Hamas terrorists.
Why?
Because this is what they are being fed. In the media. In universities. In cultural institutions.
And too often in the schools themselves.
And sadly, this mindset is not limited to confused university students. We hear echoes of it from elements within Israel’s political leadership as well. While it truly represents only a relatively small segment of the Israeli public, it is an agenda that continues to receive disproportionate backing and amplification from powerful institutions within Israel’s legal system, academia, and mainstream media.
Just recently, Gilad Kariv from the left-wing Democrats party spoke at a rally declaring that if his political camp returns to power, they would immediately move forward with renewed negotiations with the Palestinian Authority toward implementing a two-state solution, while also relying on cooperation with Israeli Arab political parties. This despite the fact that members of those parties have openly justified, supported, or refused to condemn the October 7th atrocities carried out against our people.
And once again, we are forced to confront a painful reality: There remains a segment within Israel’s political and cultural elite more comfortable partnering with ideological jihadist enemies of the Jewish state, enemies who make no distinction whatsoever between religious or secular Jews, right-wing or left-wing Jews, than with their fellow right-wing and religious Jews.
Think about how tragic that is.
After October 7th, after the massacres, after the kidnappings, after the barbarism streamed proudly online for the world to see — there are still people who instinctively view religious Jews in Judea and Samaria as the greater obstacle to peace than the jihadist ideology openly seeking our destruction.
Yet despite all of this, I do not leave these conversations angry. Quite the opposite.
Most of these young people have good hearts. They truly want to be good human beings. Their compassion is real. Their moral instincts are real. The tragedy is that those instincts are often manipulated through selective information, distorted moral frameworks, and a worldview detached from the reality of evil we are confronting.
Which is exactly why these conversations matter so much.
I do not need every person to suddenly become “right-wing.”
I do not need everyone to agree with me.
If someone walks away simply able to say: “I met an “extremist religious settler” today… and he made some interesting points I never considered before,” then that itself is already a victory for truth, for dialogue, and for the future of the Jewish people.
As I always say, the trajectory of the Jewish people in Israel is positive. Very positive.
Despite all the noise, division, fear, and headlines, there is a strengthening of Jewish identity among Israel’s younger generation unlike anything I have ever seen in my lifetime, and unlike anything in modern Jewish history. It is truly unbelievable.
More young Jews are reconnecting to our identity, our heritage, our purpose, our land, and our destiny as a people. October 7th did not break this generation. In many ways, it awakened it.
Yes, the voices of hatred, division, and self-destruction still exist. They are loud. They are influential. They dominate many institutions, media platforms, and positions of power. But they are still a minority.
A vocal minority.
The overwhelming direction of the Jewish people in Israel is one of strength, faith, identity, resilience, and national rebirth.
We will overcome our external enemies.
And we will overcome our internal challenges as well.
The future of the Jewish people, back home as a sovereign nation in our indigenous ancestral homeland, is bright.
Am Yisrael Chai!!!
