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Please Give Me Your Thoughts - Favourite Essays for a Book. (Note: My Essays. I Will Not Plagiarise Orwell.)

If you could tell me your favourite essay (please note: if your opinion is that they all sucked, it may be true to you, but it is not constructive). Haha.

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Jan 28, 2026
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I am putting together a short book of my essays on Israel, antisemitism, and what happens when moral clarity becomes socially punishable. I will do the same query for the group of essays that are not related to Israel or Judaism.

This isn’t a victory lap, and it’s not a manifesto. It’s a record. A witness statement. A collection of pieces written at moments when saying obvious things suddenly became controversial.

I have my own instincts about which essays belong in this book—but before I trust them completely, I want to check my sanity.

So I’m asking a simple question:

Which essay I wrote on Israel or antisemitism stayed with you?

Not the one you agreed with most.

Not the one that got the most likes.

The one that lodged itself in your head and refused to leave.

How to respond (keep it easy):

  • Comment below with the title of the essay

  • Or just describe it: “the one about X” is enough

  • Or reply by email if you’d rather be private, pfinlayson30@gmail.com

One essay is plenty. Two if you’re feeling ge…

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