Hanukkah Gifts: Wrapping Paper, Gift Bags and Boxes
Whether you spell it Hanukkah, Hanuka, or Channukah, the Festival of Lights is nearing. And we know that Hanukkah is an opportunity to have parties, fun parties for kids or more elegant parties for the adults. If you are going to give gifts, you will surely want pretty paper to wrap it in, or perhaps […]
Israeli MK Ayman Odeh Asks For Unity In Israel
Does Israeli Member of Knesset Ayman Odeh talk out one side of his mouth in Arabic and the other side of his mouth in Hebrew? He put up a special post on Facebook, apparently for Jewish eyes only. You see, he usually posts in his mother tongue, with Hebrew beneath the Arabic. In that way, […]
Does Israel Miss The British Mandate? We Might Just.
Seems we Israelis, or some of us, may have been nostalgic for the British Mandate period for — well, for ever-since-the-Brits-got-on-their-boats-and-shipped-back-to-the-UK. Professor Eitan Bar-Yosef of Ben Gurion University says we have missed them in two different ways; neither of these are very complimentary to us, but not in a mean way. In any case, I […]
The Radical Radicle: Online Student Journal Joins ‘Fake Academia’
Rasmea Odeh is unfairly maligned, according to a paper showcased on Reed College’s online journal. Fake academia at its best! This critique was prepared in honour of Odeh’s deportation from the USA scheduled for tomorrow (19 September 2017). Providing an outlet for publishing student papers is a wonderful apprenticeship for budding academics. Misused, however, it […]
“Cute” Little Kid Throwing Stones
I started visiting Hebron last winter. The first time I went was with (the far Left) Green Olive Tours. As we drove through the Arab district on our way to the drop-off point near a number of shops and the steps leading up to the Cave of the Patriarchs, our guide remarked about a little kid […]
Contradiction In Ki Tisa: Stiff-Necked Appeasers
What Made ‘Times of Israel’ Change Article Title?
Some readers and media analysts must have become really touchy lately — to the point that Times of Israel (TOI) changed the title to their article about a teacher who posted leftist materials on her Facebook timeline. The supposedly misleading nature of many titles news sites affix to published articles has become something with which […]
Palestinian Authority Arrests Human Rights Activist – Must Be Israel’s Fault!
Amnesty International, not a friend of Israel by any means, reported clearly and simply on the arrest of Issa Amro of Hebron. Then along come other news websites that embellish the story, most in a way that makes it seem like Israel is to blame for the Palestinian Authority (PA) having taken him into custody. […]
UNGA Recognition of “Palestine”: Does It Matter?
I am guilty of trying to convince myself that United Nations General Assembly acceptance of “Palestine” as a nonmember observer state is of no real consequence. And of trying to convince myself that UNESCO determination of our Jewish indigenous sites, the Temple Mount and the Cave of the Patriarchs, as, instead, sites “belonging” to Palestine […]
Academic Lies! And This Passes For Scholarship!
In critiquing an academic paper that was published in the journal, International Relations and Diplomacy, I found a blatant lie that made my blood boil. In another post critiquing this same article, I showed how common myths demonizing Israel have found their way into scholarly writing published in academic journals. Here I want to contest […]