Elia Dakwar, Israeli Christian Critiques Israeli Hasbara
Israeli Hasbara is lacking in one thing: courage, courage, courage — the courage to pick up the gauntlet and to begin some real research. I am an Israeli citizen. I was born here. And like everyone else here, within two minutes of birth: boom! I was affixed with a label on which it is written: […]
This is who we Israelis are. Think whatever you want, but this is us.
I cannot count how many times I have been told that Israel teaches its children to hate Arabs. And then the area that has seen more missiles, whether propelled by fuel or by wind, than any other place in Israel goes and does THIS (original Hebrew article): The Children of Sderot respond to Terror with […]
How Is Israel Like Avis Rent-A-Car?
What have Israel and Avis car rentals got in common? Watch this video and see if you get the association that came to me: https://www.facebook.com/yoel.oz/videos/10100102195721277/ In 1962, Avis was losing money to top ranking car rental company, Hertz. They decided to embrace their not-number-one position with new branding, and the tagline “We Try Harder” was […]
Kaddish? Confessions of a Jew who is not sad Hamasniks are dead
I do not mourn the Gazans killed since they began their Great Return March about six weeks ago. If that makes me cold-hearted and a bad person so be it. With every Facebook post or opinion piece that expressed regret over the lives of Gazans snuffed out as Hamas found yet another original and creative […]
Terrorism Tourism (Or: What to do near Gaza on a Friday morning.)
“You aren’t really going there, are you?” asked one friend when she heard that I was planning on driving down toward Gaza yesterday morning (11 May 2018) to see for myself what was going on near the border fence between Israel and Gaza. “Please don’t,” said another. “Looking forward to hearing all about it afterward,” […]
Reuters almost got it right about Gaza this time
From the title and through the reporting, this is the closest I have seen a major news outlet actually put together a balanced article even tangentially related to Israel in a long time. Anger as Palestinian Authority cuts Gaza salaries and pays late https://t.co/naUFcXK18s pic.twitter.com/G575iTLo0W — Reuters Top News (@Reuters) May 3, 2018 The title […]
This is what the New York Times should be doing!
The New York Times (NYT) and other major papers could benefit readers by taking an example from the British medical journal, The Lancet. Let us look at the difference between the way the NYT and Lancet handled opinion pieces written about the March of Return in Gaza. These protests began on 30 March and will […]
Fadi is Marching in Gaza for His Kids
The New York Times gave space to Fadi Abu Shammalah. He wrote an opinion piece called, Why I March in Gaza. First of all, let us look at who Abu Shammalah is: executive director of the General Union of Cultural Centers in Gaza. I find it interesting that there is a General Union of Cultural […]
Here is why the PA does not care about Palestinians killed in Syria
If Jews are in trouble anywhere in the world, Israel will do what it can to save them. The Entebbe rescue is only one such example. When Americans were trapped in the embassy in Iran and their lives were threatened, the USA made attempts to rescue them. The PA has no power to do anything […]
Physics in Service of Anti-Zionism
At this very moment, physicists from around the United States, from around the globe in fact, are packing their bags for a trip to Columbus, Ohio. Some have perhaps already arrived and are getting settled in hotel rooms at or near the conference venue. Conference organizers are making sure everything will run like clockwork. Student […]