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Bayit · Hebrew for “home”

The truth about Israel,
and how to defend it.

Most people never got the other half of the story. Here it is, with the receipts attached.

⏱ Ten minutes 🔗 Everything sourced ⚖️ Steelman first
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This is the place we're talking about.

Before the arguments, before the headlines. A country the size of New Jersey, with a coastline, a desert, and about ten million people living ordinary lives in it.

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Section 04

Life here vs. life there

Pick any two places. Same questions, both columns, a source on every row. You don't have to take a position to read a table.

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Section 06

How the story gets made

This section doesn't tell you what to believe. It teaches you how to check. Pick a case, start at the headline, and click your way to the bottom of it.

Tel Aviv skyline at night ⤢
Tel Aviv at night. Ordinary life is the part that never makes a headline. Photo: Okruz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The UN, by the UN's own numbers

We are accusing institutions of sloppy sourcing. So every number here links to a UN document, not to a commentary about one.

Read it yourself

Five tells that a claim hasn't been verified. They work in every direction, including on us.

Section 09

Myth vs. fact

Every card: the claim, the strongest possible version of it, the evidence, and where the honest answer is complicated.

Section 12 · The reason this app exists

The Debate Trainer

Everyone else built a library. This is the gym. A hostile line lands, you get 20 seconds, you pick your response, and you find out whether it would have held.

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Building now

The rest of the house

Framed and wired. Content lands over the coming days, same rule, every claim sourced.

🗺️The Land & The PeopleWho actually lives there: Arab citizens, Druze, Bedouin, Ethiopian, MizrahiNext
📜The TimelineAncient presence, Balfour, 1947, 1948, 1967, Oslo, 2005, Oct 7Next
🎯How Israel FightsLeaflets, calls, SMS, broadcast, roof knock, strike. Plus the criticism, answered.Next
🏘️The SettlersWho they actually are, what they've built, the legal argument, and the honesty clauseNext
📕The Other Side's DoctrineHamas in its own documents. Hamas is not Gazan civilians, on every screen.Next
🕊️The Small Human ThingsField hospitals, weddings, dogs, beaches, grandmothersNext
🎙️VoicesArab Israelis, Druze, Bedouin, Israeli peace activists, Palestinians critical of HamasNext
🧰Toolkit“What to say when someone tells you ____”, screenshot-able, pocket-sizedNext
Sunset on the beach in Tel Aviv-Yafo ⤢
Tel Aviv-Yafo, sunset. The beach is full every Friday. Photo: Josh Adamski, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Non-negotiable

The standard we hold ourselves to

We publish this because a page that accuses others of sloppy sourcing had better show its own work.

  1. Every claim carries a visible source. A number without a citation is worth zero to a skeptic, and it costs us the second they Google it.
  2. Steelman before you answer. The strongest version of the other side goes first, in its own best words. Then the answer.
  3. Never attack Palestinians as a people. The target is Hamas, the ideology, the regimes. Never the civilians, and we say so on every screen where it matters.
  4. Where something is genuinely contested, we say so. Owning the difficult 10% is what buys trust on the solid 90%.
  5. We rank our own sources in public. Every link on this site carries a coloured dot. Gold is a primary document. Blue is a named institution or report. Grey is background reference, including Wikipedia, which is openly editable and edited hard on this subject in particular. Grey is never the only support for a claim, and we are replacing the grey links with primary documents as fast as we can verify them.
  6. We never hide something because it's inconvenient. The violent settler fringe exists. The rabbinical divorce courts are a real restriction on Israeli women. The 2023 judicial-overhaul fight was a genuine crisis. All of that is in here, because a case that can survive its own hard facts is the only kind worth making.
Primary document Named institution or report Background reference only