Minority Community Recognition — Long Overdue!
I just got this Press Release in my email inbox. It is unfortunate that the initiative for a law cementing our relationship with minority communities among us who share our destiny had to come as a result of the backlash from the Nation-State Law. However, better late than never. The proposed bill is copied below […]
Ghetto Walls In Haifa And THAT Wall!
An Arab academic originally from Haifa and now living in the USA refers to Wadi Nisnas as a ghetto in a paper published in the recent special issue of the International Journal of American Studies on the topic of Walls. Two of the eight articles (all can be opened free of charge) in the volume […]
Ouch! The Nation-State Law and the Druze
What do you do when you love your country and feel so woven into its fabric and then the threads begin to unravel? Sitting before Safwan Mreeh in a new coffee shop in Daliyat-el-Carmel, I began to get a deep sense of what seems to be the experience of many of the Druze around us. […]
How an Israeli Professor Accuses Israel of Judaizing Israel
I think some people are quite thrilled that there are Jewish vandals who can be trotted out for display when they want to demonize the Jews. How else to explain the fact that, in a paper arguing that Israel was busy “Judaizing” Muslim holy places in 1948-1967, the very first sentence is about the 2013 […]
The All New Annotated Israeli Declaration of Independence
In the hullabaloo over the new Nation-State Law (see here, here and here), some people say the new Basic Law should have repeated certain parts of what is in the Declaration of Independence. I decided to check out the Declaration for myself and was surprised by some of what I read there. I thought it […]
National Law Hysteria: An Opportunity We Dare Not Miss
While the histrionics of Arab parliamentarians in the Knesset did not move me, I was taken aback by the fierce emotional outcry by members of the Israeli Druze community to the passing of the National Law. Their response confused me. I had read the law and saw nothing in it that I understood as knocking […]
Why The World Is Stuck On The Two-State-Solution
Asher Susser is a very impressive man. Now professor emeritus of Middle East history at Tel Aviv University, I took an online course from him called The Emergence of the Modern Middle East. I like his measured and calm way of talking. If you want to see the man for yourselves, here he is interviewed […]
When Israeli Medical Care Pays For Anti-Israeli Terrorism
Gur Mintzer, Israeli CEO of Care Medical Services, is not shy about showing how his allegiance is to Arabs who now call themselves Palestinians rather than to his own people. He used some of the millions he made by selling off his European holdings in the company to pay for Ahed Tamimi’s defence and then […]
The Women’s March: What Do You Say To The Kids?
I wrote this article over a year ago but did not publish it. I chickened out. Perhaps I was just so grossed out that I could not believe what my eyes were seeing and I hoped those images would go away. But they stuck in my mind. And now, with the growing craziness, such as […]
The Occupation Causes Palestinian Arabs To Have Heart Attacks
A study published in the academic journal, Conflict and Health, claims that Israel is to blame for cardiovascular disease (CVD) suffered by Palestinian Arabs in the Palestinian Authority (PA). Doctors interviewed by the authors of this article claimed that smoking, having an unhealthy diet and lack of exercise is due to THE OCCUPATION. Here are […]