SHORT SYNOPSIS
With an impressive cast of leading analysts, journalists, and scholars, A Collective Descent into Evil: The Lethal Obsession with Jews and the Jewish State uncovers the ongoing history behind the ideologies and strategies driving the bloodthirsty enemies of Jews, Israel, and Western values. This documentary clarifies what is at stake and what must be done to defeat these evil forces.
SHORT SYNOPSIS
With an impressive cast of leading analysts, journalists, and scholars, A Collective Descent into Evil: The Lethal Obsession with Jews and the Jewish State uncovers the ongoing history behind the ideologies and strategies driving the bloodthirsty enemies of Jews, Israel, and Western values. This documentary clarifies what is at stake and what must be done to defeat these evil forces.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
Many mistakenly view acts of terror as one-off incidents perpetrated by misguided individuals or groups that may be reacting to feeling wronged, pushed beyond their limits. Believing this allows people to avoid facing the uncomfortable truth that evil is real and thriving in the world.
The unspeakable terror that took place on 10/7 was a horrifying, savage, and depraved action, based within an evil strategic plan to advance the Islamist quest to establish a global caliphate to rule the world under Sharia law.
In the 1930s and 40s, Islamists learned directly from the Soviets and the Nazis the effectiveness of demonizing and delegitimizing Jews. As Joseph Goebbels instructed, “If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.”
Currently, to hasten the Islamist penetration into Western governments, educational institutions, and industries, the Islamists have welcomed communists, anarchists, and other Jew-hating radicals into an alliance to further demonize and delegitimize Jews and the Jewish state.
Seeing the truth requires courage and faith. Courage to stand up and fight evil, and faith, as humanity has experienced for thousands of years, we will not be alone in the fight for what is good and decent. God is with us.
SCREENINGS
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FILM FESTIVALS
- Award Winner, Documentary Feature, Houston International Film Festival, 2026
- Official Selection, Religion Faith International Film Festival
FEATURING (in order of appearance)
MELANIE PHILLIPS | ERIC COHEN | MICHAL COTLER-WUNSH | IRWIN COTLER | R. AMY ELMAN | ITAMAR MARCUS | DAN DIKER | BROOKE GOLDSTEIN | CAROLINE GLICK | JONATHAN TOBIN | RUTH WISSE | ALEX TRAIMAN | RICHARD LANDES | RAN BAR-YOSHAFAT | IZABELLA TABAROVSKY | DAVID HAZONY | JEFFREY HERF | EUGENE KONTOROVICH | SHAHAR AZANI | JOSH HAMMER | JONATHAN SPYER | RICHARD KEMP | JONATHAN SCHANZER | DANIEL PIPES | MARK TAPSON | EMANUELE OTTOLENGHI | GIL TROY | RACHEL FISH | BENJAMIN WEINGARTEN | VICTOR DAVIS HANSON | NAYA LEKHT | SUSAN TUCHMAN | KENNETH L. MARCUS | BRANDY SHUFUTINSKY | ALAN DERSHOWITZ | GERALD M. STEINBERG | OLGA MESHOE WASHINGTON
DETAILS
TRT: 80:40 MINUTES | COLOR | 2026
FILMMAKERS
Executive Producer
GEORGE VIOLIN
Producer/Director/Writer
GLORIA Z. GREENFIELD
Director of Photography
RICHARD CHISOLM
Editor
RYAN MAYERS
Original Music and Arrangement
JEAN MICHEL GUIRAO
DISTRIBUTOR
Multicom Entertainment Group
FEATURED COMMENTATORS
Melanie Phillips
Melanie Phillips is a British journalist, broadcaster, and author who has championed traditional values in the culture war for more than three decades. Her first novel, The Legacy, which deals with conflicted Jewish identity, antisemitism, and the power of history, was published in 2018 along with her personal and political memoir, Guardian Angel. Her previous books include her 2006 bestseller Londonistan about the British establishment’s capitulation to Islamist aggression and The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power, published in 2010. Her most recent book, The Builder’s Stone, was published in 2025.
Melanie Phillips
Eric Cohen
Eric Cohen has been Tikvah’s chief executive since 2007. He was the founder and remains editor-at-large of the New Atlantis, and he serves as the publisher of Mosaic. Mr. Cohen has published in numerous academic and popular journals, magazines, and newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Weekly Standard, Commentary, The New Republic, First Things, and numerous others. He is the author of In the Shadow of Progress: Being Human in the Age of Technology (2008) and co-editor of The Future is Now: America Confronts the New Genetics (2002). He was previously managing editor of the Public Interest and served as a senior consultant to the President’s Council on Bioethics. Mr. Cohen currently serves on the board of directors of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the Witherspoon Institute, and National Affairs and on the Editorial Advisory Board of First Things.
Eric Cohen
Michal Cotler-Wunsh
Michal Cotler-Wunsh is a leading international human-rights lawyer and expert on antisemitism and lawfare, who brings over two decades of unparalleled experience at the intersection of law, strategy, policy, and global advocacy, to her role as CEO of the International Legal Forum. She received her LL.B. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her LL.M. from McGill University in Montreal. She most recently served as Israel’s Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism, and previously also as a Member of Knesset. Since Oct 7th, Michal has engaged and addressed global leaders, including in the United Nations, parliaments, academia, media, on the rising urgency to comprehensively identify all strains of antisemitism.
Michal Cotler-Wunsh
Irwin Cotler
Irwin Cotler currently serves as the International Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. He is an Emeritus Professor of Law at McGill University, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and longtime Member of Parliament, constitutional and international human rights lawyer and counsel to prisoners of conscience. He is a member of the Organization of American States (OAS), the Independent Panel of Legal Experts on Venezuela, and the High-Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom. He is also Canada’s first Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism.
Irwin Cotler
R. Amy Elman
R. Amy Elman is Professor of Political Science and the William Weber Chair of Social Science at Kalamazoo College in Michigan. She has received several awards for her scholarship, including two Fulbright grants and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has worked on behalf of women’s rights and against antisemitism for decades and lectures widely. Her last book was The European Union, Antisemitism and the Politics of Denial (University of Nebraska Press, 2014) and she is completing another provisionally titled Manufacturing Denials: Antisemitism, Sexual Violence, and the Legacy of 10/7.
R. Amy Elman
Itamar Marcus
Itamar Marcus is one of the foremost experts on the Palestinian Authority in the world and represented Israel in negotiations with the Palestinian Authority on incitement. He is the founder and director of the Palestinian Media Watch, an Israeli research organization that is world renowned for in-depth research and analysis into the Palestinian society from a number of perspectives, including incitement and the glorification of terror in the media and curriculum. Palestinian Media Watch’s findings are sought after by governments, legislators, media outlets and decision-makers worldwide and have played a central role in correcting inaccurate narratives about the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
Itamar Marcus
Dan Diker
Dan Diker, President of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, is the longtime Director of its Counter-Political Warfare Project. He is former Secretary-General of the World Jewish Congress and a Research Fellow of the International Institute for Counter Terrorism at Reichman University (formerly IDC, Herzliya). He has written six books exposing the “apartheid antisemitism” phenomenon in North America and has authored studies on Iran’s race for regional supremacy and Israel’s need for defensible borders.
Dan Diker
Brooke Goldstein
Brooke Goldstein is a Miami-based human rights attorney, author, and award-winning filmmaker. She is the Executive Director and Founder of The Lawfare Project, the world’s foremost organization dedicated to enforcing and protecting the civil and human rights of the Jewish people via strategic legal actions. Brooke is also the founder of the End Jew-Hatred Movement (EJH), a grassroots civil rights movement working to eliminate Jew-hatred through peaceful direct action and education. She is the author of two books: Lawfare: The War Against Free Speech and End Jew-Hatred: A Manual for Mobilization. Brooke’s award-winning documentary film, The Making of a Martyr, uncovers the illegal, state-sponsored indoctrination and recruitment of Palestinian children for suicide-homicide attacks. Brooke is a regular commentator on FOX News and has been featured in several media, including CNN, The New York Sun, Swindle Magazine, Defense Technology International, and on WABC News Talk Radio, and has been published in a variety of sources, including the New York Daily News, Commentary Magazine, The American Spectator, The Counter Terrorist Magazine, Special Ops Magazine, and others. She also hosts the television series Outspoken on Jewish Broadcasting Service (JBS) and is a contributor at Newsmax.
Brooke Goldstein
Caroline Glick
Caroline Glick currently serves as the International Affairs Advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since February 2025. Caroline made Aliyah to Israel in 1991, two weeks after receiving her BA in Political Science from Columbia University. She joined the Israel Defense Forces that summer and served as an officer for five and a half years. From 1994 – 1996, as an IDF captain, Glick served in the Defense Ministry as a core member of Israel’s negotiating team with the Palestinians. In 1997 and 1998, she served as Assistant Foreign Policy Advisor to Prime Minister Netanyahu. From 1998 -2000, Glick studied at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and received an MA in Public Policy in June 2000. During Operation Iraqi Freedom, Glick covered the US-led invasion of Iraq as an embedded journalist with the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division. Reporting for the Post, Maariv, Israel TV’s Channel 2, and the Chicago Sun Times, Glick was one of the only female journalists on the front lines with the U.S. forces and the first Israeli journalist to report from liberated Bagdad.
Caroline Glick
Jonathan Tobin
Jonathan Tobin is editor-in-chief of the Jewish News Syndicate, a senior contributor for The Federalist, a columnist for Newsweek and a contributor to many other publications. He covers the American political scene, foreign policy, the U.S.-Israel relationship, Middle East diplomacy, the Jewish world and the arts. He hosts the JNS “Think Twice” podcast, both the weekly video program and the “Jonathan Tobin Daily” program, which are available on all major audio platforms and YouTube. Previously, he was executive editor, then senior online editor and chief political blogger, for Commentary magazine. Before that, he was editor-in-chief of The Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia and editor of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. He has won more than 60 awards for commentary, art criticism and other writing. He appears regularly on television, commenting on politics and foreign policy. Born in New York City, he studied history at Columbia University.
Jonathan Tobin
Ruth Wisse
Ruth Wisse is the Martin Peretz Professor Emerita of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard. She is also a noted scholar of Jewish history and culture. Wisse currently serves as Distinguished Senior Fellow at Tikvah, a non-profit ideas institution committed to supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish State. Wisse’s books on literary subjects include an edition of Jacob Glatstein’s two-volume fictional memoir, The Glatstein Chronicles (2010), The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey through Literature and Culture (2003), and A Little Love in Big Manhattan (1988). She is also the author of two political studies, If I Am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews (1992) and Jews and Power (2007). Her book, No Joke: Making Jewish Humor, is a volume in the Tikvah-sponsored Library of Jewish Ideas, published by Princeton University Press. Her memoir, Free as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation, was published in 2021.
Ruth Wisse
Alex Traiman
Alex Traiman is the CEO and Jerusalem bureau chief of the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) and host of “Jerusalem Minute.” A seasoned Israeli journalist, documentary filmmaker and startup consultant, he is an expert on Israeli politics and U.S.-Israel relations. He has interviewed top political figures, including Israeli leaders, U.S. senators and national security officials with insights featured on major networks like BBC, Bloomberg, CBS, NBC, Fox and Newsmax. A former NCAA champion fencer and Yeshiva University Sports Hall of Fame member, he made Aliyah in 2004, and lives in Jerusalem with his wife and five children.
Alex Traiman
Richard Landes
Richard Landes was trained as a medievalist at Princeton University (MA 1979, PhD 1984). His work focuses on apocalyptic and millennial beliefs at the turn of the first and second millennium (1000 and 2000 CE). Among Landes many books are The Apocalyptic Year 1000 (2003), Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience (2011), and the forthcoming Can the “Whole World” be Wrong? A Medievalist’s Guide to the 21st Century (Academic Studies Press, 2021). Landes coined the term “Pallywood” while investigating the Muhammad al Durah affair and maintains “The Augean Stables,” a blog critical of western journalism. He recently published two articles: “The Demopath’s Lexicon: A Guide to Western Journalism between the River and the Sea” in Israel Affairs (2020), and “Oslo’s Misreading of an Honor-Shame Culture” in Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs (2019). Since retiring from Boston University in 2015, where he was a Professor in the History Department, he lives happily with his wife in Jerusalem, where he can write free of politically correct pressures.
Richard Landes
Ran Bar-Yoshafat
Ran Bar-Yoshafat is an Attorney and conducts numerous Israel advocacy speaking tours throughout the United States and Europe. Previously, he served as Deputy Director of the Kohelet Policy Forum, the Project Manager of the Israeli Jewish Congress, worked for the Legal Department of the Knesset, directed the Jerusalem District of the EZ-Way Psychometric Company, and has instructed special classes for struggling minorities. Bar-Yoshafat has published two books and his third is coming out this year. He speaks on TV channels including TRT, RT, I-24, and as a regular panelist on Israeli channel 14. Bar Yoshafat serves every year between 1-2 months in the army reserves in combat Special Forces.
Ran Bar-Yoshafat
Izabella Tabarovsky
Izabella Tabarovsky is a Senior Fellow at the Z3 Institute, a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism & Policy (ISGAP) and the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (LCSCA), and a contributing writer at Tablet. Her research and writing focus on Soviet antizionism and contemporary left antisemitism, Soviet Jewry, Holocaust in the USSR and Stalin’s repressions. She is author of Be a Refusenik: A Jewish Student’s Survival Guide. Izabella holds a Master of Arts degree in Russian History from Harvard University and Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Colorado in Boulder. In addition to Tablet, her writings have been published in Newsweek, The National Interest, Forward, Times of Israel, Fathom, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and others.
Izabella Tabarovsky
David Hazony
David Hazony is Director and Steinhardt Senior Fellow of the Z3 Institute. An award-winning editor, translator and author, his work has been pivotal in shaping the discourse on Jewish thought and Zionism. He is the editor of Jewish Priorities and Young Zionist Voices (Wicked Son), the former editor-in-chief of the journal Azure and was the founding editor of The Tower.org. His book The Ten Commandments (Scribner, 2010) was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. His translation of Uri Bar-Joseph’s The Angel (HarperCollins, 2016) was a winner of the National Jewish Book Award. He has edited two previous anthologies: Essential Essays on Judaism by Eliezer Berkovits (Shalem, 2002), and, with Yoram Hazony and Michael B. Oren, New Essays on Zionism (Shalem, 2007). He has a Ph.D. in Jewish Philosophy from the Hebrew University and lives in Jerusale
David Hazony
Jeffrey Herf
Jeffrey Herf is a distinguished American historian and professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, College Park, specializing in 20th-century German history, the Holocaust, and modern European politics. He examines the intersection of technology, Nazism, propaganda, and antisemitism. A prolific author, Herf has consistently highlighted the central role of antisemitism in Nazi ideology and its continuation in postwar anti-Zionism. He received the Bernard Lewis Prize from the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) in 2022 for his work on Israel’s Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945-1949.
Jeffrey Herf
Eugene Kontorovich
Eugene Kontorovich is one of the world’s preeminent experts on universal jurisdiction and maritime piracy, as well as international law and the Israel-Arab conflict. He is also the Executive Director of Scalia Law School’s Center for the Middle East and International Law. Professor Kontorovich joined the Scalia Law School from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law where he was a Professor of Law from 201o 2018 and an Associate Professor from 2007 to 2011. Previously, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago from 2005 to 2007 and an Assistant Professor at George Mason School of Law from 2003 to 2007. Professor Kontorovich has published over thirty major scholarly articles and book chapters in leading law reviews and peer-reviewed journals in the United States and Europe. His expertise is often sought out and quoted by major news organizations such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR News, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, and numerous television and radio programs.
Eugene Kontorovich
Shahar Azani
Shahar Azani is a veteran Israeli diplomat, passionate advocate for Israel and a frequent contributor to various media outlets focusing on Israel, Jewish issues and the Middle East. He is the CEO of the Book Family Foundation as well as Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at Jet Support Services, Inc. (JSSI). Azani was formerly Senior Vice President at JBS, Jewish Broadcasting Service, former Executive Director for StandWithUs in New York and served at Israel’s Foreign Ministry for over 16 years – including London, Los Angeles, Jerusalem, Nairobi and New York, focusing on international affairs, media affairs and public diplomacy.
Before embarking on this career path, he practiced Law at Haim Zadok and Company, based in Tel Aviv, focusing on litigation.
Shahar Azani
Josh Hammer
Josh Hammer is an American conservative political commentator, attorney, and columnist. He is the author of Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West. He is a syndicated columnist through Creators Syndicate, senior editor-at-large for Newsweek, and host of The Josh Hammer Show, a Newsweek podcast and syndicated weekly radio show, which, in October 2025, joined Salem Media Group’s Salem Podcast Network and Salem News Channel. In January 2026, Hammer joined the David Horowitz Freedom Center as a Shillman Fellow.
Josh Hammer
Jonathan Spyer
Jonathan Spyer is the Director of Research at the Middle East Forum, as well as Editor he Middle East Quarterly. Mr. Spyer, a journalist, reports for Janes Intelligence Review, writes a column for the Jerusalem Post, and is a contributor to the Wall Street Journal and The Australian. He frequently reports from Syria and Iraq. He has a B.A. from the London School of Economics, an M.A. from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. He is the author of two books: The Transforming Fire: The Rise of the Israel-Islamist Conflict (2010) and Days of the Fall: A Reporter’s Journey in the Syria and Iraq Wars (2017).
Jonathan Spyer
Jonathan Schanzer
Jonathan Schanzer is the executive director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), where he oversees the work of the organization’s experts and scholars. He previously worked as a terrorism finance analyst at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he followed and froze the funding of Hamas and al-Qaeda. Jonathan has held previous think tank research positions at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the Middle East Forum. He has written hundreds of articles on the Middle East and U.S. national security. His most recent book is Gaza Conflict 2021: Hamas, Israel and Eleven Days of War (FDD Press 2021). His other books include State of Failure: Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Unmaking of the Palestinian State (Palgrave Macmillan 2013), Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle for Palestine (Palgrave Macmillan 2008), and Al-Qaeda’s Armies: Middle East Affiliate Groups and the Next Generation of Terror (Washington Institute for Near East Policy 2004). Jonathan testifies often before Congress and appears on television channels such as CNN, Fox News, BBC, and MSNBC.
Jonathan Schanzer
Daniel Pipes
Daniel Pipes founded the Middle East Forum in 1994 and currently serves as Chairman of its Board of Directors. Pipes taught at Chicago, Harvard, Pepperdine, and the U.S. Naval War College. He served in five U.S. administrations, received two presidential appointments, and testified before many congressional committees. The author of 16 books on the Middle East, Islam, and other topics, Mr. Pipes writes a column for the Washington Times and the Spectator; his work has been translated into 39 languages. He received both his A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard. The Washington Post deems him “perhaps the most prominent U.S. scholar on radical Islam.”
Daniel Pipes
Mark Tapson
Mark Tapson is a writer, screenwriter, culture critic, and political commentator. He is the host of an original podcast on Frontpage, “The Right Take with Mark Tapson.”
The Shillman Fellow on Popular Culture for the David Horowitz Freedom Center, Mark has written nearly a thousand articles about the intersection of culture and politics for FrontPage Magazine, Acculturated, Intellectual Takeout, Breitbart, Time, The Federalist, National Review, The New Criterion, and elsewhere.
Mark has appeared on CNN, Glenn Beck, and other TV and internet outlets to discuss culture and politics, as well as making many radio and public appearances. He has also been interviewed about his political conversion in the documentary Blocking the Path to 9/11, and about the crisis of masculinity in the Doc Emet Productions documentary The Fight of Our Lives. For the Freedom Center, Mark has appeared on or led many panel discussions on topics ranging from cultural Marxism to religious liberty to Islamic terrorism. And he has interviewed notable figures, before live audiences, such as defense attorney Alan Dershowitz, Clinton prosecutor Kenneth Starr, Benghazi warrior Mark “Oz” Geist, historian Ron Radosh, award-winning author Lela Gilbert, and conservative intellectual David Horowitz.
As a screenwriter, among the numerous films Mark has worked on are the controversial ABC miniseries The Path to 9/11 and the award-winning documentary Jihad in America: The Grand Deception, co-written with terrorism expert Steven Emerson of the Investigative Project on Terrorism. He is currently adapting Peter Schweizer and Caspar Weinberger’s book The Next War for the big screen. Mark is also the author of a forthcoming book on chivalry and the war on masculinity from Templeton Press.
Mark Tapson
Emanuele Ottolenghi
Emanuele Ottolenghi is an Italian political scientist and counter-terrorism expert specializing in Iran’s malign influence, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and Hezbollah’s illicit networks, particularly in Latin America. He holds an undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Bologna and a Ph.D. in political theory from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. As a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Ottolenghi researched hybrid threat networks linked to Iran and its proxies, including their anti-Western Hemisphere.
Emanuele Ottolenghi
Gil Troy
Gil Troy is a prominent American-Canadian presidential historian, author, and leading Zionist activist, serving as a Distinguished Scholar in North American History at McGill University. Based in Jerusalem, he is a senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute and writes for The Jerusalem Post and The Daily Beast. A prolific writer, his books include The Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s;To Resist the Academic Intifada: Letters to My Students on Defending the Zionist Dream; Why I am a Zionist: Israel, Jewish Identity, and the Challenges of Today; Moynihan’s Moment: America’s Fight Against Zionism as Racism; The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland – Then, Now, Tomorrow; and much more.
Gil Troy
Rachel Fish
Rachel Fish is co-founder of Boundless, a think-action tank partnering with community leaders across North America to revitalize Israel education and take bold collective action to combat Jew-hatred. She also serves as an associate research professor at the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies. In addition, Fish teaches Israeli history and society at The George Washington University as Visiting Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership in the Graduate School of Education and Human Development. Previously, she was the executive director of the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism and served as Senior Advisor and Resident Scholar at the Paul E. Singer Foundation in New York City and Executive Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, where she trained the next generation of academics in the field of Israel Studies. She also served on the faculty at Brandeis University, The George Washington University, and Harvard University.
Rachel Fish
Benjamin Weingarten
Benjamin Weingarten is a Senior Contributor to The Federalist, Contributor at RealClearInvestigations, columnist at Newsweek and The Epoch Times, and a Fellow of the Claremont Institute. He is author of American Ingrate: Ilhan Omar and the Progressive-Islamist Takeover of the Democratic Party (Bombardier, 2020), and a 2019 recipient of TFAS’ Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship, under which he covered the Trump administration’s China policy. A prolific investigative journalist, Ben has written for The American Mind, City Journal, The New York Post, and numerous other publications. He is founder and CEO of ChangeUp Media, a conservative media consulting company.
Benjamin Weingarten
Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; his focus is classics and military history. Hanson was a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California (1992–93), a visiting professor of classics at Stanford University (1991–92), the annual Wayne and Marcia Buske Distinguished Visiting Fellow in History at Hillsdale College (2004–), the Visiting Shifron Professor of Military History at the US Naval Academy (2002–3),and the William Simon Visiting Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University (2010). In 1991 he was awarded an American Philological Association Excellence in Teaching Award. He received the Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism (2002), presented the Manhattan’s Institute’s Wriston Lecture (2004), and was awarded the National Humanities Medal (2007) and the Bradley Prize (2008).
Hanson is the author of hundreds of articles, book reviews, and newspaper editorials on Greek, agrarian, and military history and essays on contemporary culture. He has written or edited twenty-five books, the latest of which is The End of Everything: How Wars Descend Into Annihilation2024), which followed The Case for Trump (Basic Books, 2019). His other books include The Second World Wars (Basic Books, 2017); The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost – from Ancient Greece to Iraq (Bloomsbury 2013); The End of Sparta (Bloomsbury, 2011); The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern (Bloomsbury, 2010); Makers of Ancient Strategy: From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome (ed.) (Princeton, 2010); The Other Greeks (California, 1998); The Soul of Battle (Free Press, 1999); Carnage and Culture (Doubleday, 2001); Ripples of Battle (Doubleday, 2003); A War Like No Other(Random House, 2005); The Western Way of War (Alfred Knopf, 1989; 2nd paperback ed., University of California Press, 2000); The Wars of the Ancient Greeks (Cassell, 1999; paperback ed., 2001); and Mexifornia: A State of Becoming (Encounter, 2003), as well as two books on family farming, Fields without Dreams (Free Press, 1995) and The Land Was Everything (Free Press, 1998).
Victor Davis Hanson
Naya Lekht
Naya Lekht is a scholar on contemporary antisemitism and works with the Jewish community to foster pride in the history of the Jewish people. Naya received her PhD in Russian Literature from UCLA where she wrote her dissertation on Holocaust literature in the Soviet Union. In 2018, Naya was a Scholar-in-Residence at Oxford University through the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism (ISGAP). A passionate educator and curriculum developer, in 2019 Naya joined as Director of Education at Club Z, a Zionist youth movement. Under her leadership, Club she developed a curriculum on Jewish peoplehood, Zionism, and Advocacy that is currently being used across the nation. In 2022, Naya was a presenter at the National Teachers Seminar at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC), where she taught Soviet Literature and Film. Naya is likewise a published author and most recently, joined as Educator Editor for White Rose Magazine, a non-partisan digital publication dedicated to exposing extremism and reteaching classical liberalism. Naya is currently teaching Zionism, the history of antisemitism, and working on her book, tentatively titled Zionism in the Diaspora: Reclaiming Israel Education.
Naya Lekht
Susan Tuchman
Susan Tuchman is the Director of the Center for Law and Justice at the Zionist Organization of American (ZOA) since 2003. She graduated magna cum laude, with honors, from Brandeis University, and received her law degree from the Boston University School of Law, where she was accorded the academic distinction of Paul J. Liacos Scholar. Following a clerkship with the Superior Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Ms. Tuchman was a litigator at the Boston law firm of Fine & Ambrogne until the firm’s dissolution and then practiced in the Boston office of the law firm of Hinckley, Allen & Snyder, where she was the first woman partner in the firm’s litigation department. Ms. Tuchman had a general and varied commercial litigation practice at both firms and also handled several civil rights and constitutional cases.
Susan Tuchman
Kenneth L. Marcus
Kenneth L. Marcus is an internationally recognized expert in civil and human rights, as well as a leader in the fight against antisemitism on and off university campuses. He is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, the leading civil rights legal organization fighting against antisemitism. During his public service career, Marcus served as Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education for Civil Rights; Staff Director at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; and General Deputy Assistant U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. In academia, he serves as Professorial Lecturer in Law at George Washington University. He formerly held the Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Chair in Equality and Justice in America at the City University of New York’s Bernard M. Baruch College, served as Visiting Research Professor of Political Science at Yeshiva University, and was a Board of Visitors member George Mason University and Distinguished Senior Fellow at that university’s law school.
Kenneth L. Marcus
Brandy Shufutinsky
Brandy Shufutinsky serves as director of FDD’s Program on Education and National Security. Prior to joining FDD, Brandy was director of education and community engagement at the North American Values Institute. She has been published in Newsweek, Jewish Journal, The Jerusalem Post, Sapir, White Rose Magazine, and JNS. She was a 2021 scholar-in-residence at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy Oxford Summer Institute, where she worked to develop curriculum in critical antisemitism studies.
Brandy Shufutinsky
Alan Dershowtiz
Alan Dershowtiz is Professor Emeritus at Harvard Law School. He is an American lawyer, jurist, author, and political commentator; and is a prominent scholar on United States constitutional law and criminal law, and a leading defender of civil liberties. He spent most of his career at Harvard Law School, where he became the youngest full professor of law in its history. He held the Felix Frankfurter professorship there until his retirement in December 2013. Dershowitz attended Brooklyn College and received his A.B., Yale Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal, and graduated first in his class with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.).
Alan Dershowtiz
Gerald Steinberg
Gerald Steinberg is founder and president of NGO Monitor and Professor Emeritus at Bar Ilan University, where he founded the Program on Conflict Management and Negotiation. His research focuses on Middle East diplomacy and security, the politics of human rights and non-governmental organizations, and Israeli politics and arms control. He was awarded a prestigious Israel Science Foundation grant; served as team leader for the “Israel at the Polls” chapters on peace negotiations and Israel-American relations (1988-2005); was a member of the advisory board of the Israel Law Review; is a member of Israel Council of Foreign Affairs; appointed to the Israel Higher-Education Council, Committee on Public Policy; academic participant in the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism ICCA; and a participating member (Israel), Halifax International Security Forum (since 2014). He was awarded the Bonei Zion Prize in 2017 and received the prestigious Bernard Lewis Prize in 2025.
Gerald Steinberg
Olga Meshoe Washington
Olga Meshoe Washington was a South African attorney known for her work in interfaith relations and Israel advocacy. She founded and directed the pro-Israel Christian lobby group DEISI (Defend, Embrace, Invest, Support Israel). Olga rebutted accusations of Israeli apartheid, commenting that Israeli policies were so different from South African apartheid that such comparisons were “woefully ignorant and “trivialize what Black South Africans went through; they’re erasing our experience.” She was also a Board Member and senior staff member of for IBSI (Black Solidarity with Israel), overseeing their speakers bureau. In 2022, she spoke at a Geneva event organized by UN Watch associated with the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Pillay report. Her remarks were supported by Yair Lapid’s statement denouncing the Pillay report as antisemitic. Olga was named one of 25 young visionaries by The Jerusalem Post, which noted how she applied her legal and corporate management expertise to impact socioeconomic development programs, non-profits, and NGOs. Olga also served as Chief Operating Officer of Club Z, an American Zionist youth movement. She was featured in Ari Mittlemam’s Paths of the Righteous: Stories of Heroism, Humanity and Hope. Olga Meshoe Washington died on 6 January 2025, a month after being diagnosed with lupus. She was 43 years old and is survived by her husband Joshua Washington and their two young sons. Olga was buried in Haifa.
Olga Meshoe Washington
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