Dialogue with the Enemy
Confronting the Activist Campaign to Eliminate Israel
When an activist declared that Israel has no right to exist, a rabbi in Jerusalem didn’t answer with anger. He answered with questions.
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One conversation. Every claim, put to the test.
After October 7, an American mother and activist posted a blunt declaration: Israel does not have the right to exist. Rabbi Shmuel Veffer sent her a private message instead of a rebuttal. What followed was a weeks-long conversation, sometimes heated and sometimes surprisingly personal.
Dialogue with the Enemy is the story of that conversation, told in her words and his:
- How words become weapons: why “genocide” and “apartheid” so often end a conversation instead of starting one
- How history gets rewritten: what the record shows about Hebron in 1929, the Oslo years and the 2005 Gaza withdrawal
- How to test the numbers: what the casualty and aid figures actually say, with sources
- How to answer: practical tools, Socratic and Talmudic, for your own conversations
Written for anyone who has faced these claims at work, on campus or at the family table, and wants to answer with clarity and calm.
About Rabbi Shmuel Veffer
Rabbi Shmuel Veffer has taught Torah for more than thirty years and splits his time between Jerusalem and Tiberias. Born and raised in Canada, he holds a mathematics and computer science degree from the University of Waterloo and received his rabbinic ordination at Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem. He is the inventor of the KosherLamp and the author of The Jerusalem Conspiracy, a bestseller in Israel, Missiles, Masks and Miracles and Faith Under Fire.
More books by Rabbi Veffer
Faith Under Fire
Israel’s October 7 war through the prism of Torah: a war diary of faith, grief and hope across 21 months.
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Missiles, Masks and Miracles
39 Scud missiles, thousands of damaged homes, and the hidden hand of God during the first Gulf War.
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