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Israel and Civilization

The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West

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About The Book

A powerful, next-generation manifesto declaring that the future prosperity and ultimate fate of Western civilization is dependent upon the security and thriving of the Jewish people and the Jewish State of Israel—that the Jewish people’s right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland demands a distinctly realist foreign policy and tight-knit USIsrael relations.

In Israel and Civilization, syndicated columnist, legal scholar, and popular commentator Josh Hammer makes a righteous case that the key to the prosperity of the West is the flourishing of the Jewish people and the Jewish State of Israel. Hammer’s uplifting offense is our best defense against the enemies of the Jewish people, the Jewish state, and all the West. As Hammer makes clear, manifesting the promise of Israel requires action by the United States and its allies. Only a grand Jewish-Christian alliance can save the West: This will require Jews who are strong, and Christians who are cognizant of the roots of the civilization they have built.

Western civilization, as we conceive it today, began at Mount Sinai. The reality is that without the Jews, there would be no West. Similarly, the State of Israel is now the West’s man on the spot—the tip of the spear in the battle against Islamist terrorism and global neoliberalism alike. The time is now for new voices to rise to defend our collective Western civilizational inheritance.

There can be no overstating the impact of the trauma of October 7, 2023, on the Jewish people. Yet the anti-Israel and antisemitic reactions the world over have been equally devastating. Rallies of hundreds of thousands explicitly or implicitly promoting Hamas’s carnage; demonstrations of Ivy League professors celebrating the pogrom as “awesome” and “exhilarating;” so-called human rights organizations that refuse to unequivocally condemn the use of rape as a weapon of war—it all threatens the physical and metaphysical survival of the West, including the Jewish people and the Jewish State of Israel.

Preserving the best of what’s been thought and said throughout history and ensuring that there will be centuries more requires a West that is proud of its Jewish heritage. In other words, the continued existence of the Jewish people is inextricably tied to the endurance of Western civilization. The State Israel is the center of the civilizational clash, and Israel and Civilization explains why and how the Jewish people must endure—and the Jewish state must win.

About The Author

Josh Hammer is senior editor-at-large of Newsweek, a syndicated columnist through Creators Syndicate, and a fellow with both the Edmund Burke Foundation and the Palm Beach Freedom Institute. He also hosts The Josh Hammer Show, a Newsweek podcast and syndicated weekly radio show. A frequent pundit and essayist on political, legal and cultural issues, Josh is a constitutional attorney by training.

Josh has been published by many leading outlets, including the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, Daily Mail, National Review, The Spectator, Townhall, Fortune, Fox Business, The Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel, The Forward, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and the Jewish Journal. His legal scholarship has been published by the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy and the University of St. Thomas Law Journal. Josh is a college campus speaker through Young America's Foundation and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, and a law school campus speaker through the Federalist Society.

Prior to Newsweek and The Daily Wire, where he was an editor, Josh practiced law at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and clerked for Judge James C. Ho on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Josh has also served as a John Marshall Fellow with the Claremont Institute and as a Fellow with the James Wilson Institute. Josh graduated from Duke University, where he majored in economics, and from the University of Chicago Law School. He lives in Florida but remains an active member of the State Bar of Texas.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Radius Book Group (March 25, 2025)
  • Length: 304 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781635769845

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