Times of Israel: Start Thinking About What You Write!

Properly naming places in Israel is important. It can be a matter of life or death in our battle for recognition of the truth. In March 2016, the Times of Israel published an article about an archaeological find. Given the number of shares, it was apparently of interest to many people. The fact that someone […]

Israeli Jews And Palestinian Arabs: Make Friends Not War

Grassroots organizations and many well-meaning individuals tell us that regular people, Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs, have to dialogue with each other in order to break through the walls of hate and make bridges that can lead to peace. . . that we regular people can do what our own leaders and world leaders cannot […]

Need Proof Israel Should Punish Parents When Kids Throw Stones?

I found that proof while researching an article on a different topic. Let me first provide some background to the question and then tell you what I found. Over the past decade, Israel has been wrestling with the question regarding how to best respond when children under the age of criminal responsibility (age 12) throw […]

The Parents Circle: Trump’s Jerusalem Speech Shutting Us Up

A supposed co-existence pro-peace organization is illogically blaming President Trump’s Jerusalem speech, the long overdue recognition of Jerusalem as the historical and contemporary capital of Israel, as the reason for cancelled programming in Israel. First let me tell you a bit about the Parents Circle and then I will tell you why this claim is […]

Palestinian Arab Students: Because Of The “Israeli Occupation”

Another Wizard of Oz in academia. Here is an article that seems to damn the “Israeli Occupation” but it does not, really. The authors should have had the sense not to publish this paper because it proves something very different from what they set out to show. If anyone actually reads the substance of the […]

Fred Maroun: Trump Challenged A 69-Year-Old Lie

Although US President Donald Trump’s behavior has often been unconventional (to put it mildly), receiving well-deserved criticism, his declaration on Jerusalem was a model of diplomacy. He did everything by the book, he called Arab leaders to inform them in advance of what was coming, and he exceeded any expectations that one might have had […]

Fighting For Our Lives And JPost Makes A Stupid Serious Mistake

I perhaps should not have written this article, especially if I hope one day to be writing for the Jerusalem Post. Oh well. First, you will get angry to see elected Knesset members marching with Palestinian flags in protest against western Jerusalem having been recognized as Israel’s capital city. How dare they! But then, if […]

Mudar Zahran: Promising Jews A Garden Of Eden

A Jordanian comes along and tells Israelis that Jordan is Palestine and that all our problems will be solved when the whole world recognizes that fact. Everyone will finally get off Israel’s back, bringing to life the Garden of Eden in the New Middle East. The “only” problem is that that requires King Abdullah II […]

Anti-Zionist Jews And Anti-Palestinian Arabs!

We know there are anti-Zionist Jews. Are there anti-Palestinian Arabs? If there are, are the two groups comparable? To be anti-Zionist means to believe that Israel has no right to exist; that Jews have no right to a sovereign state of their own. To be anti-Palestinian means to believe, not only that a state of […]

Israel As A Settler-Colonial Project — Foundation Of A Theory

An academic make-believe story for the gullible scholar. The paper I am looking at right now, written by the late Australian anthropologist Patrick Wolfe, was published in 2006 and has been cited in 1132 other articles by the time of writing this critique. That is a very large number of citations. What this means is […]