Gol Kalev is the author of the bestselling book, The Assault on Judaism: The Existential threat is coming from the West (October 2024). He serves as Chairman of the Judaism 3.0 Think Tank, and is the author of Judaism 3.0: Judaism’s Transformation to Zionism, updated in 2024 for the Gaza war.
He is a columnist for The Jerusalem Post, where he analyzes long-term global geopolitical shifts, European developments, and trends in Zionism and international affairs. His magazine cover-articles shaped conversations on topics ranging from contemporary European colonialism to the state of Judaism. His new weekly column, The Assault on Judaism, applies the ideas in his recent book to today’s policy decisions.
Gol has also written analysis articles for The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Jerusalem Report, Israel Hayom, The Daily Wire, The Media Line, The Washington Times, and Foreign Policy. His daily TV appearance on American Sunrise in the days following October 7th garnered bipartisan praise for his strategic analysis, placing the atrocities in historic and geopolitical contexts, and warning of an ensuing ideological attack coming from the West.
Gol is also known for revolutionizing the research of Theodor Herzl, the father of Zionism. Delving into the depth of Herzl’s thinking, Gol applies Herzl’s frameworks to today’s strategic issues, such as the future of Europe, the Palestinian quest for statehood, debates about the form of governance, and theological issues.
Since 2015, his geopolitical analysis has been featured on Europe & Jerusalem, and read by decision-makers in the United States, Europe and around the world.
Born and raised in Tel Aviv, Gol served in the Israeli army before spending nearly two decades in New York, where he was an investment banker in Citigroup (formally Salomon Smith Barney) and J.P. Morgan, specializing in mergers and acquisitions and capital raising for financial institutions globally. He now lives in Jerusalem.
Recent Media
TV: American Sunrise
Podcast: Newsweek
Video-cast: The Franciska Show
Radio: Talkline
Print: The Wall Street Journal
Magazine: The Jerusalem Report
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Recent video clips: Book launch – The Assault on Judaism
Summary article – The Jerusalem Post (November 20, 2024)
Launch event press release:
The Assault on Judaism launched in Jerusalem
Jerusalem, October 15, 2024; for immediate release (press inquiries: media@theAssaultoOnJudaism.com)
Gol Kalev: “Iran and its proxies have the capabilities to kill many Jews… but not to destroy Judaism….Those capabilities are housed in the West…And have been activated”
The Assault on Judaism was launched last night in a dynamic event at the Begin Center in Jerusalem, live-streamed to audiences around the world.
Author Gol Kalev said that the contemporary path to destroy Judaism is not through war, but through war crime indictments. Until a year ago, that path has been theoretical, “war crimes need a war,” he said. On October 7th it went live, and “we are now in a well-advanced [Western] attempt to negate the idea of the Jewish state, and through that to negate the idea of Judaism,” he stated.
Kalev highlighted some of the key arguments in his book, which analyzes the ideological assault from the West that followed October 7th, and compares it to previous attempts to eradicate Judaism. He explained that the Western assault on Judaism is also a proxy assault on America, and presents a strategic threat to US national security.
He addressed pushbacks that it is not the right time to deal with an abstract threat coming from “polite Europeans in suits”, when Jews are being killed, missiles are coming in, and Israeli soldiers are fighting a brutal war: “People say, let us fight the physical war now….and afterwards, in a few years, we can address the ideological assault from the West….Well in a few years it is going to be too late,” he cautioned.
He pointed to the trajectory of the rapidly-expanding Western assault that he describes in the book, which includes actions by the International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice, sanctions by Western governments, indoctrination of global public opinion, and the instillment of Jewish insecurity. He said that with this new book, he hopes to “refocus world’s public opinion to this existential threat,” offering new long-term and short-term strategies to counter it.
Renewed London Times columnist Melanie Philips spoke about The Assault on Judaism: “I read it with great joy and interest. The book is a very effective description of the forces that have come together to assault on the Jewish people.” She reacted to Gol’s claim that American Jews can not carve themselves out of the assault, “I think it is absolutely right to cast it, as Gol does, as an assault on Judaism,” pointing to the obsessive nature and glee of the attackers.
In her view, the assault is committed by three primary sources: “The ideological far-left, Islamist who wish to Colonize that non-Islam world, supporters of Palestinian rights in the West, who are not ideological, but have bought into a particular narrative that Israel is the bad guy – always, and the Palestinians are the victims – always.”
The evening continued with a conversation moderated by Begin Center’s Senior Fellow Paul Gross, who said that the book “has already made quite a splash…influential figures from around the world view this book as revolutionary,” he said, noting that book is became an Amazon bestseller and was chosen for the cover of a recent Jerusalem Report magazine.
Kalev ended his remarks by saying that “never before has there been such a clear demarcation: The world’s nations can either bless Israel or curse Israel. Over the last year, we saw a lot of people who chose to curse Israel, including world leaders…but we also saw a lot of individuals who defy the propaganda they hear from various Western media and their own Western leaders, and have chosen to bless Israel. I hope that this book helps expand this coalition of people who choose to bless Israel – from the Right and from the Left, from various political, religious and national backgrounds.”
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“A must-read for all those wishing to understand the intricacies of the full-spectrum assault not merely on Judaism and the Jewish people, but also on America and Western civilization itself.”
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek – Senior editor at Large
”Groundbreaking book! Brilliant analysis of the existential threat to Judaism and danger to global stability that followed October 7th. This is the original thinking the world needs to address our era’s geopolitical challenges.”
Col. Richard Kemp,
Former Commander of British Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan
Pre-October 7th:
Watch Gol Kalev discusses the Assault on Judaism from the West, three weeks before October 7th:
The Assault on Judaism through anti-Zionism and Israel-Bashing (September 2023)
The Assault on Judaism is on the cover of The Jerusalem Report:
JUDAISM 3.0 