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Thomas Balazs

Thomas P. Balazs is an essayist, fiction writer, and perplexed Jew living in Atlanta.

  • Palestinian fighters of the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, take part in a military parade to mark the anniversary of the 2014 war with Israel, near the border in the central Gaza Strip on July 19, 2023
    Palestinian fighters of the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, take part in a military parade to mark the anniversary of the 2014 war with Israel, near the border in the central Gaza Strip on July 19, 2023
    Belief section icon
    The Nihilism of Antisemitism

    Hamas targets the Jews because of what Judaism represents: the moral system underpinning Western culture

    byThomas BalazsandYonatan Hambourger
  • Holidays section icon
    A Tale of Two Atonements

    Why I couldn’t forgive my brother as a Christian—but could ask his forgiveness as a Jew

    byThomas Balazs
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