Shany Mor
@shanymor.bsky.social
Six weeks into the ceasefire, I've done some thinking about strategy and about someone who I usually don't think is all that interesting.
ideas.tikvah.org/mosaic/essay...
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Benjamin Netanyahu Deserves Credit for Israel’s Stunning Triumph—and for Its Stunning Failures
Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Six weeks into the ceasefire, I've done some thinking about strategy and about someone who I usually don't think is all that interesting.
ideas.tikvah.org/mosaic/essay...
ideas.tikvah.org/mosaic/essay...
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In my newest article I discuss one aspect of the corbynization of the American left that doesn't always get due attention: obsession with supposed Jewish evil doesn't just sanction violence or lead to disinhibition of other bigotries. It enforces a politics of stupid. www.thejc.com/opinion/mayo...
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and the rise of politics of stupid - The Jewish Chronicle
The corbynisation of the Democratic party bodes ill for the future of the city and the country at large
www.thejc.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
In my newest article I discuss one aspect of the corbynization of the American left that doesn't always get due attention: obsession with supposed Jewish evil doesn't just sanction violence or lead to disinhibition of other bigotries. It enforces a politics of stupid. www.thejc.com/opinion/mayo...
The new Agha & Malley book on the failure of Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking has been widely excerpted in the media and widely praised by all the foreign policy establishment voices. Here's my long review for @quillette.bsky.social. quillette.com/2025/10/14/r...
Rewarding Rejectionism
A new book by two former peace processors makes clear that statehood was never the goal of the Palestinian cause.
quillette.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:35 AM
The new Agha & Malley book on the failure of Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking has been widely excerpted in the media and widely praised by all the foreign policy establishment voices. Here's my long review for @quillette.bsky.social. quillette.com/2025/10/14/r...
To understand just how counterproductive the new recognition announcements are, we need to go back in time.
Not a lot, just a week.
"How the West handed Hamas a win and killed the ceasefire," my latest article.
www.thejc.com/opinion/how-...
Not a lot, just a week.
"How the West handed Hamas a win and killed the ceasefire," my latest article.
www.thejc.com/opinion/how-...
www.thejc.com
August 4, 2025 at 9:04 AM
To understand just how counterproductive the new recognition announcements are, we need to go back in time.
Not a lot, just a week.
"How the West handed Hamas a win and killed the ceasefire," my latest article.
www.thejc.com/opinion/how-...
Not a lot, just a week.
"How the West handed Hamas a win and killed the ceasefire," my latest article.
www.thejc.com/opinion/how-...
Why didn't humanitarians go ballistic as Iranian missiles were fired at Israeli cities?
In my latest article, I analyse all three reasons. The third is unalloyed bullshit; the first two are even worse.
www.thejc.com/opinion/when...
In my latest article, I analyse all three reasons. The third is unalloyed bullshit; the first two are even worse.
www.thejc.com/opinion/when...
When Israeli civilians die, human rights norms disappear - The Jewish Chronicle
The laws of war are universal, except – it seems – when the Jewish state is involved. Iran’s missile barrage revealed a moral and legal double standard
www.thejc.com
July 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Why didn't humanitarians go ballistic as Iranian missiles were fired at Israeli cities?
In my latest article, I analyse all three reasons. The third is unalloyed bullshit; the first two are even worse.
www.thejc.com/opinion/when...
In my latest article, I analyse all three reasons. The third is unalloyed bullshit; the first two are even worse.
www.thejc.com/opinion/when...
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BICOM’s Senior Research Associate @shanymor.bsky.social spoke with Venetia Rainey of @telegraphnews.bsky.social on her Battle Lines podcast.
🎧 Listen to the full episode, Inside Trump’s Iran attack and why Tehran can still build a nuclear bomb, at: shows.acast.com/battle-lines...
🎧 Listen to the full episode, Inside Trump’s Iran attack and why Tehran can still build a nuclear bomb, at: shows.acast.com/battle-lines...
June 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
BICOM’s Senior Research Associate @shanymor.bsky.social spoke with Venetia Rainey of @telegraphnews.bsky.social on her Battle Lines podcast.
🎧 Listen to the full episode, Inside Trump’s Iran attack and why Tehran can still build a nuclear bomb, at: shows.acast.com/battle-lines...
🎧 Listen to the full episode, Inside Trump’s Iran attack and why Tehran can still build a nuclear bomb, at: shows.acast.com/battle-lines...
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Maybe, just maybe Deborah Lipstadt understands something that you don't. And the entire lexicon of denial you've deployed over a decade of writing about this ("conflating" "silencing criticism" etc.) has helped you renew membership in the community of the good but blinded you to the lurking danger.
May 22, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Maybe, just maybe Deborah Lipstadt understands something that you don't. And the entire lexicon of denial you've deployed over a decade of writing about this ("conflating" "silencing criticism" etc.) has helped you renew membership in the community of the good but blinded you to the lurking danger.
The 3 bespoke norms invented for Israel's war in Gaza — on supplies and logistics, territorial changes, and keeping civilians in theatre — not only have no basis in international law, but they contradict nearly every stated policy aim of the countries insisting on them.
www.thejc.com/opinion/the-...
www.thejc.com/opinion/the-...
The West’s two-tier international law doesn’t harm just Israel - The Jewish Chronicle
European diplomats invoke legal norms that don’t exist – and in doing so make the plight of the hostages far worse and the war much longer and deadlier for both sides
www.thejc.com
May 9, 2025 at 10:34 AM
The 3 bespoke norms invented for Israel's war in Gaza — on supplies and logistics, territorial changes, and keeping civilians in theatre — not only have no basis in international law, but they contradict nearly every stated policy aim of the countries insisting on them.
www.thejc.com/opinion/the-...
www.thejc.com/opinion/the-...
"The most damaging misunderstanding about Corbyn and the problem of antisemitism was the instinctive framing of the issue as a prejudice, rather than as a fully formed ideology."
My reflections on Corbynism and its implications for American politics.
www.thejc.com/opinion/corb...
My reflections on Corbynism and its implications for American politics.
www.thejc.com/opinion/corb...
What Britain’s Corbyn era can teach American Jews - The Jewish Chronicle
‘Geostrategic antisemitism’ doesn’t need a majority to become an organising principle – just enough elite backers
www.thejc.com
April 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
"The most damaging misunderstanding about Corbyn and the problem of antisemitism was the instinctive framing of the issue as a prejudice, rather than as a fully formed ideology."
My reflections on Corbynism and its implications for American politics.
www.thejc.com/opinion/corb...
My reflections on Corbynism and its implications for American politics.
www.thejc.com/opinion/corb...
Israel's October 6 failures and its October 7 failures and its October 8 failures are all related.
The current government is not equipped to properly handle this war for all the same reasons it was unable to prevent it.
The current government is not equipped to properly handle this war for all the same reasons it was unable to prevent it.
March 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Israel's October 6 failures and its October 7 failures and its October 8 failures are all related.
The current government is not equipped to properly handle this war for all the same reasons it was unable to prevent it.
The current government is not equipped to properly handle this war for all the same reasons it was unable to prevent it.
Spoke yesterday on the BBC about the strange ceasefire-inside-a-ceasefire of the last eleven days.
Split into parts here in the thread:
Split into parts here in the thread:
March 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Spoke yesterday on the BBC about the strange ceasefire-inside-a-ceasefire of the last eleven days.
Split into parts here in the thread:
Split into parts here in the thread:
Been writing and thinking about national security policy for years, and I admit I can't find the concept behind a strategy of treating Canada and Mexico as enemies and Russia and China as allies.
February 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Been writing and thinking about national security policy for years, and I admit I can't find the concept behind a strategy of treating Canada and Mexico as enemies and Russia and China as allies.
Leading figures in Turkey & Qatar are implicated in Hamas' crimes. Neither is an ICC member state, but the crimes are happening in a territory that the ICC insists is in a member state. By principles of complementarity and jurisdiction, there is a case for prosecution and arrest.
February 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Leading figures in Turkey & Qatar are implicated in Hamas' crimes. Neither is an ICC member state, but the crimes are happening in a territory that the ICC insists is in a member state. By principles of complementarity and jurisdiction, there is a case for prosecution and arrest.
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2. I plugged @shanymor.bsky.social's article in Mosaic four months ago, and will do so again. Shany, who's not at all right-wing, blames four things: Bibi's personal failings, the settler movement, the peace process, the split sovereignty of the UNWRA system. mosaicmagazine.com/essay/israel...
The Failed Concepts That Brought Israel to October 7
How four interlocking ways of thinking combined to leave the Jewish state at the mercy of its enemies.
mosaicmagazine.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
2. I plugged @shanymor.bsky.social's article in Mosaic four months ago, and will do so again. Shany, who's not at all right-wing, blames four things: Bibi's personal failings, the settler movement, the peace process, the split sovereignty of the UNWRA system. mosaicmagazine.com/essay/israel...
Hard to square some of the statements this morning from European foreign ministers with their governments' strident apologias (and generous funding) for UNRWA.
February 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Hard to square some of the statements this morning from European foreign ministers with their governments' strident apologias (and generous funding) for UNRWA.
REMINDER: On September 26, with 100,000 Hezbollah missiles intact, Nasrallah in Beirut, Assad in Damascus, Putin in Tartus & Latakia, and Sinwar in Gaza, the brightest diplomatic minds of the world thought an Israeli ceasefire was crucial. Were they right?
www.elysee.fr/en/emmanuel-...
www.elysee.fr/en/emmanuel-...
Joint Statement by the United States, Australia, Canada, European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, Qatar
Read the joint statement.
www.elysee.fr
December 11, 2024 at 8:56 AM
REMINDER: On September 26, with 100,000 Hezbollah missiles intact, Nasrallah in Beirut, Assad in Damascus, Putin in Tartus & Latakia, and Sinwar in Gaza, the brightest diplomatic minds of the world thought an Israeli ceasefire was crucial. Were they right?
www.elysee.fr/en/emmanuel-...
www.elysee.fr/en/emmanuel-...
You can learn a lot about the social praxis of "international law" by the amount of attention devoted in the days after the Syrian regime's fall to the Golan question.
I wrote a bit about this in 2019:
www.tabletmag.com/sections/isr...
I wrote a bit about this in 2019:
www.tabletmag.com/sections/isr...
The Golan Heights and the Depths of Hypocrisy
The perennial issue of Israel’s borders flared up once again last week when President Trump announced that the U.S. will recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, the volcanic plateau that...
www.tabletmag.com
December 11, 2024 at 8:56 AM
You can learn a lot about the social praxis of "international law" by the amount of attention devoted in the days after the Syrian regime's fall to the Golan question.
I wrote a bit about this in 2019:
www.tabletmag.com/sections/isr...
I wrote a bit about this in 2019:
www.tabletmag.com/sections/isr...
On this day in 1967, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 242. I wrote about some of the ways it was an exceptional bit of diplomacy back on the fiftieth anniversary of its passage.
www.the-american-interest.com/2017/11/22/u...
www.the-american-interest.com/2017/11/22/u...
UNSC Resolution 242 at Fifty - The American Interest
Israel's decisive military victory in the Six-Day War was followed by a deliberately ambiguous, precedent-defying resolution, with grave and unforeseen consequences for all parties involved.
www.the-american-interest.com
November 22, 2024 at 2:16 PM
On this day in 1967, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 242. I wrote about some of the ways it was an exceptional bit of diplomacy back on the fiftieth anniversary of its passage.
www.the-american-interest.com/2017/11/22/u...
www.the-american-interest.com/2017/11/22/u...
Is there an effective military response that Israel could have mounted after October 7 that would not have been met with violence against diaspora Jews and a mobilization of int'l orgs, NGOs, and the milieu of "international law" scholars behind the claim that it was a war crime?
November 21, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Is there an effective military response that Israel could have mounted after October 7 that would not have been met with violence against diaspora Jews and a mobilization of int'l orgs, NGOs, and the milieu of "international law" scholars behind the claim that it was a war crime?