Lions of Zion

Defenders who chose clarity.

These are the defenders profiled in the book. They paid for their clarity in real currency, professional loss, social ostracism, and physical threat, and they paid anyway.

Eve Barlow

Music journalist blacklisted from mainstream media for defending Jews, who kept writing anyway.

Melissa Steinberg Brodsky

Writer of The Lioness Writes, recovering the historical record that slogans erase.

Alan Dershowitz

Harvard Law professor emeritus and author of The Case for Israel, who has defended Israel's legal and moral right to exist for decades.

Samantha Ettus

Author and creator of The Jewsletter, a leading pro-Israel newsletter.

Matti Friedman

Former Associated Press reporter who exposed from the inside how media coverage of Israel is systematically distorted.

Caroline Glick

American-Israeli journalist and author who has written on Israel's strategic position for decades.

Daniel Gordis

Jerusalem-based author of Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn.

Yossi Klein Halevi

Author of Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor.

Dara Horn

Novelist and author of People Love Dead Jews, on the world's preference for dead Jews over living ones.

Aviva Klompas

Former Israeli UN speechwriter and Boundless co-founder reimagining Israel education across North America.

Dr. Naya Lekht

Scholar who frames three eras of Jew-hatred and teaches the third through Stop Antizionism.

Mark Levin

Constitutional lawyer and broadcaster who has defended Israel and the Jewish people across decades of commentary.

Deborah Lipstadt

Holocaust historian and former US antisemitism envoy who defeated Holocaust denier David Irving in a landmark libel trial.

Adam Louis-Klein

Scholar who argues that anti-Zionism is a distinct contemporary hatred that must be named in its own right.

Douglas Murray

British author and one of the most consistent non-Jewish voices defending Israel in Western discourse.

Hillel Neuer

International lawyer and UN Watch director who confronts anti-Israel bias inside the United Nations.

Dr. Michael Oren

Historian and former Israeli Ambassador to the United States who defends Israel with historical precision.

Melanie Phillips

British journalist and author of Londonistan who paid a steep professional price for early warnings about Islamism and Jews.

Dennis Prager

Commentator and PragerU co-founder whose videos reach audiences conventional media never touch.

Dr. Gad Saad

Evolutionary behavioral scientist and Lebanese-born Jewish refugee whose work supplies the diagnostic tools for understanding IDS.

Dan Senor

Co-author of Start-Up Nation and host of the Call Me Back podcast.

Ben Shapiro

Orthodox Jewish public intellectual and Daily Wire co-founder who confronts Jew-hatred on both the left and the right.

Bret Stephens

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who writes with clarity about Jew-hatred across the political spectrum.

Bari Weiss

Journalist whose 2020 resignation letter became a defining document of the IDS era; founder of The Free Press.

Einat Wilf

Israeli scholar and former Knesset member who defends Zionism as a legitimate national liberation movement.

Ruth Wisse

Harvard professor emerita and author of Jews and Power.