Israel Diaries

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Idan Eretz Shows Us Behind-the-Scenes Fake Media in Action

In a Tweet, Idan Eretz showed us how fake media works. Well, sometimes, at least. I am sure this is not the only time this has happened. Translation below the Tweet:   כרגע גוף תקשורת מסוים פנה אלי וביקש ממני לדבר נגד החרדים בעקבות משבר הקורונה, כולל קריאה לפטר את ליצמן. הסברתי שבעיני ליצמן התרשל […]

The Infection We Seem Unable to Get Over

Israeli society has not yet seen the need for applying Israeli ingenuity to serious study of the Please-like-us virus. At the close of the March 31 episode of Uvda, her weekly news investigation program, Ilana Dayan told the viewing audience that we may soon get news that Tuvia Tzafir has recovered from the Coronavirus. Tzafir […]

Politics can be a well-orchestrated opera

What if our elected officials finally acted in Israel’s best interests? Is it possible that the theatrics we witnessed is just that — theatrics? As the new government arrangements came to light, after Benny Gantz stepped off the Speaker’s podium, as Lapid was ranting and raving, I was suddenly struck by a thought that changed […]

This MK should be disqualified.

This should be enough to get this man thrown out of the Knesset and prevented from ever running again. Sami Abu Shehada of the Joint List, you know, the party bloc that Gantz’s party bloc, Blue&White, wants to rely on for forming a minority government, uploaded a blessing to the mothers of terrorists in honour […]

New New Historian: Moving on from Ilan Pappe

There is a new boy on the block. He is a new generation New Historian who takes the post-Zionist revisionist history of Israel to the next stage of evolution. And, according to textbook analyst Dr. Sandra Alfonsi, he is dangerous. His name is Dr. Yoni Furas. He completed his PhD in 2015 at Oxford and […]

You are destroying Israeli democracy! No, you are!

First there was the a demonstration to protest Bibi destroying our democracy. People set out in cars, allegedly one person per car, in order to obey the Coronavirus orders of the day protecting the public from contamination. Along with his video of the demonstration, Amir Shlomian wrote: Whoever was not there – their loss. Festival […]

Black Lies about Israeli Pinkwashing

Jennifer Lynn Kelly is another scholar who seemingly knows little about that about which she writes. In her new article that was published in January 2020, she writes about pinkwashing. She titled it: “Israeli gay tourist initiatives and the (in)visibiity of state violence“. Pinkwashing was originally coined to label businesses that advertised their (carcinogenic) products […]

WHY Did Rome Really Name Palestine Palestine?

What if Rome did not name Palestine as an act of hatred particularly against the Jews? Would it matter? And what if they really did? Would THAT really matter? First let’s look at why the Romans changed the name of Judea to Palestine. Do a search on the Internet for “how did Palestine get its […]

When the Israeli ‘Occupation’ is a Convenient Excuse

This is Part III of the critique of an article that seeks to glorify women’s resistance movements in the Middle East and in the process tells lies about Israel. The article is called Middle Eastern Women between Oppression and Resistance: Case Studies of Iraqi, Palestinian and Kurdish Women of Turkey; it was written by Khodary, […]

The Joint List and Corona: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Bibi asked that members of all parties set aside political differences in order to come together in an emergency government to make decisions all our lives depend upon. And it appears that Gantz thinks the Joint List should be part of that emergency government. Bibi says supporters of terror against Israel, represented by Ayman Odeh, […]