Ahmad Tibi Says He is Not Anti-Jewish, Part II
This is Part II of an analysis of Ahmad Tibi’s op-ed on the CNN website. We left Part I where I showed the only two laws Tibi deemed worthy of being examples of his supposedly ‘dozens’ of discriminatory laws in Israel. Let us look at these two laws in some depth now. The Ban of […]
Ahmad Tibi Says He is Not Anti-Jewish, Part I.
Last month, CNN published an op-ed written by Member of Knesset Ahmad Tibi. I could not let the piece stand unchallenged. Already in the second paragraph, Tibi writes: We are not responding to the hateful incitement we have heard from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his supporters. Rather, in the interest of lasting peace and […]
Pro-Palestinian Challenged in New Zealand Journal
Marilyn Garson (a Jew) spent four years working in Gaza and she thinks that gives her the authority needed to tell the New Zealand government how they should interact with Israel. And she wrote an article about that. It was published in the January-February 2020 issue of the journal, the New Zealand International Review. Called […]
Everyone Knows we need Electoral Reform… So?
As a result of our current national political debacle, former Haifa mayor, Yona Yahav, wrote a letter to the editor of Haaretz in which he calls for electoral reform. He suggests that we would not be finding ourselves in the current paralysis had reform taken place at any of the previous times it was attempted. […]
Idan Eretz Shows Us Behind-the-Scenes Fake Media in Action
In a Tweet, Idan Eretz showed us how fake media works. Well, sometimes, at least. I am sure this is not the only time this has happened. Translation below the Tweet: כרגע גוף תקשורת מסוים פנה אלי וביקש ממני לדבר נגד החרדים בעקבות משבר הקורונה, כולל קריאה לפטר את ליצמן. הסברתי שבעיני ליצמן התרשל […]
The Infection We Seem Unable to Get Over
Israeli society has not yet seen the need for applying Israeli ingenuity to serious study of the Please-like-us virus. At the close of the March 31 episode of Uvda, her weekly news investigation program, Ilana Dayan told the viewing audience that we may soon get news that Tuvia Tzafir has recovered from the Coronavirus. Tzafir […]
Politics can be a well-orchestrated opera
What if our elected officials finally acted in Israel’s best interests? Is it possible that the theatrics we witnessed is just that — theatrics? As the new government arrangements came to light, after Benny Gantz stepped off the Speaker’s podium, as Lapid was ranting and raving, I was suddenly struck by a thought that changed […]
This MK should be disqualified.
This should be enough to get this man thrown out of the Knesset and prevented from ever running again. Sami Abu Shehada of the Joint List, you know, the party bloc that Gantz’s party bloc, Blue&White, wants to rely on for forming a minority government, uploaded a blessing to the mothers of terrorists in honour […]
New New Historian: Moving on from Ilan Pappe
There is a new boy on the block. He is a new generation New Historian who takes the post-Zionist revisionist history of Israel to the next stage of evolution. And, according to textbook analyst Dr. Sandra Alfonsi, he is dangerous. His name is Dr. Yoni Furas. He completed his PhD in 2015 at Oxford and […]
You are destroying Israeli democracy! No, you are!
First there was the a demonstration to protest Bibi destroying our democracy. People set out in cars, allegedly one person per car, in order to obey the Coronavirus orders of the day protecting the public from contamination. Along with his video of the demonstration, Amir Shlomian wrote: Whoever was not there – their loss. Festival […]