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Israel Advocacy and Insights from Those Who Live It

Two months into the war, Cheryl Dorchinsky talked Israel advocacy with Virag Gulyas, a Hungarian Zionist who isn't Jewish, and Ian Halperin, a filmmaker and the son of a Holocaust survivor.

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  • Virag Gulyas

    Speaker, author, and activist; head of the JNF-USA speakers bureau

    A Hungarian and a non-Jewish Zionist, she is a former diplomat to the EU, a communications consultant and journalist, and writes the blog The Almost Jewish. She was New York coordinator for the grassroots movement End Jew Hatred.

  • Ian Halperin

    New York Times bestselling author and filmmaker

    The author of ten books, among them BIGOT, on contemporary antisemitism, which came out a few days before October 7. He directed Wish You Weren't Here, a film about Roger Waters, and is the son of a Holocaust survivor.

  • Cheryl Dorchinsky

    Cheryl Dorchinsky

    Executive Director, Atlanta Israel Coalition

Two months into the war, Cheryl Dorchinsky hosted a webinar with two advocates who live this work.

Virag Gulyas is Hungarian, a former diplomat to the EU, and a Zionist who isn’t Jewish. She writes the blog The Almost Jewish, headed the JNF-USA speakers bureau at the time, and had been New York coordinator for End Jew Hatred. Ian Halperin is a bestselling author and filmmaker, and the son of a Holocaust survivor. His book on antisemitism today, BIGOT, came out a few days before October 7. His film Wish You Weren’t Here took on Roger Waters, and he’d been on an AIC panel about it in 2022.

The whole hour is on video. Two short clips of Gulyas are on AIC’s YouTube channel: why a proud Hungarian is a proud Zionist, and her three-second rule for arguing about Israel.

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