Why Are Let it Be Morning Actors Boycotting Cannes Festival?
Arab actors who were born in Israel, grew up in Israel, studied in institutes of higher education in Israel, still live in Israel, and work professionally in Israel, played in Let it Be Morning, a film supported by the Israel Film Fund. They are peeved that their film is being presented at Cannes as an […]
Lyn Julius: Haaretz Feeds Anti-Zionist Propagandists (Again)
This article by Lyn Julius brought back memories and made me laugh. And it made me cringe. More of that in a moment. She brings us an exerpt from an article in Haaretz that is behind a paywall. She gives us enough of the article to let us understand her point — that while there […]
Friedman: Twice-Promised Land?
The myth of a twice-promised land is used (among other things) to question Israel’s legitimacy. Ben Gurion University history professor Isaiah Friedman published a book in the year 2000 tackling the myth that Israel was promised by the British to both the Jews and the Arabs. He hopes that clarifying the truth behind the myth […]
Jordan Shows How to make a Nation from Bedouin Tribes
and what to do when threatened by a large “other” within. Zaina Siyam wrote her masters thesis for the Departmen of Law at the American University of Cairo, entitled, “Legal Construction of Nationalism and National Identity in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan“. I have always been curious about how Jordan developed a national spirit out […]
Since the Nation State Law Passed its First Supreme Court Test…
Yesterday afternoon (8.7.2021), the left-wing Haaretz published a surprisingly balanced report of the Supreme Court denial of a petition to strike the Nation State Law (NSL) from the book of statutes. Now that the NSL is etched indelibly into the fabric of our legal system, we can look at it more dispassionately and understand why […]
Silwan: Judaizing or Preventing the Palestinianization of What was Never Palestinian
Seems that anti-Zionists love accusing Israel of “Judaizing” places on the map even though it is quite easy to prove that these points on the map were Jewish before they were Arabized during the Muslim Conquest of 650 that sought to wipe out (or convert to Islam, which is a form of ethnic cleansing) indigenous […]
Sinokrot: Academic Report on Successful PA Company
Sinokrot Holdings is a very successful family business in the Palestinian Authority (PA). A case study examining the reasons for its success was published in the first volume of a new economics and accounting journal. The description of success in view of very difficult conditions for entrepreneurship would have been much more valuable if they […]
Security, the Movie: The Power of Lies to Ruin Lives (and Reflections Related to Israel)
The Italian movie, Security, available on Netflix, tells a powerful story of the unwillingness of the population of a small resort town to hear the truth, They shattered a neighbour’s reputation and life on the basis of suppositions and unchallenged suspicions. After I had recovered from the pain I felt at the end of the […]
Psychological Deterrence: An Arab Tells Us Why Israel is Failing
Particularly relevant today, with Israel’s new coalition government is a piece written two years ago by Abu Ali Express about why Israel is failing to maintain psychological deterrence against her Arab enemies. He is an Arab Hebrew-language blogger writing for an Israeli audience. Relevant to this discussion, the new coalition government under Naftali Bennett (the […]
Givara Albudeiri: Pallywood Still Hiring Actors, Not Restricted to Gaza
I have just recently been made aware of Abu Ali Express, an Arab who writes in Hebrew for Israeli readers. I wrote about his questioning the morality of Biden regarding the Saudis and now I am bringing you a set of posts from yesterday (6 June 2021) that are important because of the lies being […]