Yuki Zeman

September 2026:George could have expressed sorrow for October 7, then moved at once to a denunciation of Israel. This has become the approved syntax of celebrity compassion: Jewish suffering is briefly acknowledged before Israeli guilt takes possession of the argument. The initial sympathy merely licenses the accusation that follows. George refused that sequence.

May 2026:The deeper question is what happens to institutions after they are given permission to make death part of care.

May 2026:I keep the Marquis de Sade in the background as a discipline rather than a hero, a knife laid on the table to cut through the alibis that usually protect such pleasures.

May 2026:Nicholas Kristof’s New York Times column on alleged Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians appeared on May 11. The following day, the Civil Commission on October 7 Crimes by Hamas Against Women and Children released Silenced No More, a 297-page report on sexual violence committed during the Hamas-led attacks of October 7 and against hostages in captivity. Yet public discussion quickly centered on Kristof’s column and the controversy […]

December 2025:Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537–1598) unified Japan after a century of civil war. He governed as a builder, not a zealot: taxes were stabilized, authority consolidated, and public order placed above sectarian power. In 1587, he confronted a religious-political influx of Portuguese Catholics, expelling Jesuit missionaries while keeping trade on terms set by Japan. He also challenged Portuguese slave trafficking, which had entangled itself with missionary influence, and demanded redress for Japanese captives.

September 2025:An open letter on recognition, justice, and survival: Gaza was the test; the U.N. learned nothing. Gaza in 2005 already tested the two-state promise. The unilateral land-for-peace disengagement produced rockets, tunnels, indoctrination, and, on October 7, the deadliest massacre of civilian Jews—including babies, pregnant women, people with disabilities, and the elderly—since the Holocaust. To officials, editors, […]

May 2025:Anti-Semitism has resurfaced, disguised as fashionable resistance, and divorced from its historical context. It’s a dangerous trend where cruelty is masked as conscience, with real-world, violent consequences.