Holiday From History — Manuscript Submitted
The book is finished. It releases October 7, 2025: memory, not marketing.
I finally submitted the manuscript last night. Countless days or weeks spent with the laptop and iPad—a whole chunk of life distilled into creating this book—and finally, around 10 PM yesterday, I was able to upload the files and turn the page. From production to publishing.
The West mistook peace for permanence. It believed history had ended. Hamas proved otherwise. So did Russia. So does Iran. Pretending otherwise is a luxury we can ill afford.
This book is a warning. We must be strong enough to fight.
Holiday From History has been in progress for months. Too often interrupted. I gave hours away to other people’s projects. Worthwhile work, yes. But it broke my rhythm. I learned a hard lesson: solidarity matters, but survival also demands boundaries. A writer must protect their time to write.
The book will release on October 7, 2025. That date is memory—not marketing.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded Israel. They raped, burned, and murdered more than a thousand Jews. They dragged hundreds into Gaza. While Israelis buried their dead, mobs in London and New York waved flags for the killers. University presidents quibbled about “context.” The United Nations drafted [more] resolutions against Israel instead of Hamas.
Dara Horn’s thesis that people love dead Jews, seems to live on. Regardless of that, the dead are not a footnote. Western liberalism’s rot can be named and we can move forward. Holiday From History lays it all bare.
Publishing on that day is not commerce. It is testimony. It says that the Jewish dead are not a footnote, and that Western liberalism’s rot will be named, not ignored.
The West still avoids naming jihad. Politicians prefer abstractions. Journalists indulge euphemism. NGOs launder propaganda into policy. If they will not call Islamic supremacism what it is, then we must.
The war continues. Each week brings rockets, stabbings, car rammings, shootings. Judea and Samaria bleeds. Israel defends itself while Western diplomats argue about “proportionality” and praise “restraint.” States fall over themselves to recognize a so-called “State of Palestine,” a fiction with no sovereignty, no functioning government, and no legal foundation in international law. These recognitions reward Hamas. They reward terrorism. They punish Jews for surviving.
This is suicide by diplomacy. Entire societies embrace it. That madness is part of what Holiday From History confronts.
Every page has been checked, re-checked, fact-checked. No footnotes. No escape into jargon. Every line stands on its own authority. I cut euphemism and made the argument direct.
I wrote it in airports, in hotel rooms, in short bursts between commitments. Finishing at last was more resolve than relief.
Next up, the book tour.
Keep your eyes open for updates from behind the scenes as that progresses and I’ll give you a reminder once it’s available.
Thank you for your support.
Holiday From History: The West’s Delusion of Peace and the Return of War releases October 7, 2025 on Amazon and thoughtful independent bookstores.