There’s a kind of courage that almost never gets celebrated: refusing to go along when your own camp drifts from truth.
That’s why Ben Shapiro's speech at Turning Point USA struck me so deeply, and it connects so powerfully to this week's parsha Vayigash and Chanukah.

In his speech, Shapiro wasn’t warning about “the other side.” He pushed back against his own "side's" growing comfort with conspiracy, speculation, and narratives untethered from evidence — antisemitism.

Shapiro was speaking to a large portion of the audience that didn’t want to hear it, including other major figures at the event, like Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, and he knew the cost.

In Vayigash, Yehuda stands before an Egyptian ruler (unbeknownst to him, his brother Yosef) who is powerful and appears manipulative and someone intent on trapping him in a false story. Yehuda knows he cannot win by playing along with the imposed narrative.

So he does something far more radical.