The novel
The Claim That Ends Conversations. Examined.
A forensic investigation into the land claim, the lobby, the lobby's God, and twenty-five centuries of institutional nerve.
God gave that land to the Jews. It ends more arguments than any other sentence in the English-speaking world. It is stated with the confidence of established fact. This book examines it: with exactly the respect it deserves.
Next Year in Jerusalem traces the land claim from its origins in the libraries of Babylon, through the English aristocrats who needed a buffer state, the Irish eccentric who needed Jews in Palestine for his apocalypse schedule, and the Foreign Secretary who had just passed laws keeping Jews out of England, to the rubble of Gaza and the ICC arrest warrants that are still being ignored.
The archaeology is settled. The institutional logic is traceable. The documents are public. The only thing missing has been someone willing to read them out loud.
Written under the pen name Apollonius of Tyana. Published March 2026.