Are American Jews Really Traitors?

Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis · May 4, 2026 · 8m

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Just before Yom Ha-Atzma’ut, Israel Independence Day, Hagai Segal, a leading Israeli journalist, author and former Editor-in-Chief of the Makor Rishon newspaper, wrote a column in which he expressly said that by virtue of their not having moved here, American Jews are traitors.

It was an incendiary word to choose, and as one might have anticipated, it u…