Rowan Dean: How Dare the Israeli Government Prevent Jews from being Killed?
A breath of fresh air and a voice of sanity is heard at Sky New Australia. Host Rowan Dean talks for 15 minutes about what is really going on in the latest hostilities between Hamas and Israel. He is calm and his presentation is low-key, but his language is cynical and sarcastic. It is worth […]
A Trauma Therapist on the Ongoing Victim Status of the Palestinian Arabs
As a retired trauma therapist I cannot ignore a comment made by a Palestinian Arab woman in a promotional video invitation to participate in the May 15th Nakba Day ceremony about which I wrote here. The script has her say: Because we are still trapped in our role as victims Palestinian Arabs claim to be […]
Nakba Day for Peacemongers: A Combatants for Peace Oxymoron
Come on Jews! Let us join in the Palestinian Nakba Day ceremony! After all, we were invited by the NGO Combatants for Peace. Must mean that this is another step along the path toward peace between Jews and Palestinian Arabs. After all, they are combatants FOR PEACE, no? If we listen closely enough, we can […]
Caroline Glick: So Much Noise Over 7 Knesset Seats
Journalist Caroline Glick has made Yamina Party head Naftali Bennett a kind of villain in the coalition-forming crisis. It appears to me that she is following a script written by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu even though she once ran on a political party list headed by Bennett. How is one to make sense of this? […]
The Present: Oscar-Worthy Victimhood
It is said that history is written by the victors. That is apparently not always true. When ‘narrative’ stands in for history, history can be revised and written by the vanquished. And, accordingly, we have the movie, The Present, a Palestinian narrative in cinematic form. Having already won several prizes, it is a candidate in […]
B’Tselem Confirms that Checkpoints in Judea and Samaria Not so Bad
Those who protest against the Israeli so-called ‘occupation’ always bring up the subject of prevention of freedom of movement in the Palestinian Authority (PA). For example, Machsom Watch, an organization that reports on the supposedly inhumane behaviour on the part of soldiers manning the checkpoints makes the claim that: Almost every time a Palestinian steps […]
Doesn’t The Guardian Ever Stop Promoting Antisemitism?
Peddling in anti-Israel propaganda by publishing lies and distortions of the truth is one form of antisemitism that seems to be justified by much of the world as their declared right to criticize Israel. Criticizing the Israeli government is legitimate for sure and at the moment most Israelis are hard at it given that it […]
Mansour Abbas: A Moderate Islamist?
Does participaton in the Knesset lead to moderation of extremist views? That is the view of many academics who examine the relations between Islamist parties and the governments of the lands in which they live. Understanding this phenomenon is of growing interest to Israelis given the increased prominence of the Arab parties in Israeli political […]
Joint Memorial Day Ceremony — Hard questions? Answers?
Supposedly embracing the controversy around the joint Israeli-Palestinian memorial day ceremony, the American Friends of the Parents Circle hosted a zoom discussion on March 30 with Osama Elawat of the “Combatants for Peace” organization and Robi Damelin of The Parents Circle at which they discussed some aspects of the controversy. This evening (April 5), a […]
The Occupation, Coronavirus and Palestinian Mental Health
Because of Corona lockdowns, now everyone around the world knows what it is like to be under Israeli “occupation”, say the authors of a recent article published in The International Journal of Human Rights in Health Care. The journal is peer-reviewed and seeks to be a bridge between policy makers, researchers and practitioners and to […]