The Eighth Front: How Israel Plans to Occupy the American Mind

The Eighth Front: How Israel Plans to Occupy the American Mind

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair In December 2025, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Palm Beach, Florida, with evangelical Christian Zionist leaders and university presidents. He told them that Israel had been fighting a “seven-front war,” and warned that there was now an eighth front: the battle “for hearts and minds in the West,” particularly among young people, and, above all, in the United States. And almost two years ago, I wrote ho…

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