The False Report, Repeated: How Anti-Zionist Jews Became the Scouts of Our Time

It begins, like all cautionary tales, with a delegation of elites.

In Numbers 13, Moses sends twelve tribal leaders to scout the land of Canaan. These aren’t random foot soldiers. These are the heads of tribes, the so-called “men of standing.” Trusted. Respected. In modern terms, think: op-ed columnists, endowed chair professors, rabbis with TED Talks.

Their job? To assess the land promised by God.

Their deliverable? A travesty.

They return not with intelligence, but with incantations of fear. The cities are fortified. The people are giants. *We are grasshoppers in our own eyes,* they whimper. And their solution? *Let us appoint a new leader and return to Egypt.*

This was not humility. It was sabotage. This was not a misjudgment. It was a full-throated mutiny against God, against purpose, against history.

Fast forward.

The Lying Spies: The Anti-Zionists of Their Time

Meet their successors: Peter Beinart, Shaul Magid, Daniel Boyarin, and others who claim to speak in the name of Jewish ethics while methodically dismantling the foundations of Jewish sovereignty.

They warn us that Zionism is a distortion, not a fulfillment, of Jewish identity. That Israel, not Hamas or Iran, is the real destabilizing force. That Jewish power, not Jewish survival, is the moral crisis of our time.

Their credentials are impeccable. Their rhetoric is polished. And their influence is toxic.

Like the scouts of old, today’s anti-Zionist elites peddle a sophisticated kind of cowardice. They masquerade as prophets while functioning as defeatists. They speak not to rally but to retreat. Their mission is not to redeem Jewish power but to render it illegitimate.

They are the authors of the modern false report.

Peter Beinart is not offering a bold new Jewish future. He’s asking us to return to Egypt. Shaul Magid is not challenging power. He’s venerating Jewish impotence as virtue. Daniel Boyarin is not preserving tradition. He’s canonizing statelessness as salvation.

Their vision is not radical. It’s regressive.

Their goal is not justice. It’s surrender.

And like the original scouts, they cannot lead. They can only obstruct.

We need Joshuas. We need Calebs. We need those willing to look at history, at threat, at responsibility—and say: *We can go up.*

Because Amalek still stands. The land still waits. And the promise is still ours.

The only thing that’s changed is that now, we have a state.

Let’s not let the scouts talk us out of it again.