Is This the EU’s Response to Birthright?
You know that Birthright offers free trips to Israel for Jewish kids to help them reconnect with their Jewish roots, right? So in a countermove, the European Union is offering free flights and accommodations to European photographers to promote pro-Palestinian propaganda. Through this one-week visit, the selected European photographers will join young Palestinian photographers and […]
What Do Students Learn When Teachers Express their Political Views in the Classroom?
UPDATE: I have written about his latest arrest here. It seems that Meir Baruchin, a civics teacher with 30 years classroom experience, was fired from his job in Rishon LeZion for expressing his political views in the classroom. He claims that he uses his political views to open up debate among the pupils and leads […]
Kirk Douglas: Academic Study Comes Out in Time for His Memorial
Just this past month, an academic article on Kirk Douglas was published online. Called, Star Power, the article seeks to shed light on a subject so far unexplored in the research: the influence of Hollywood, in this case, of this particular actor, on the Israel-Arab conflict. British communications professor, Dr Tony Shaw, and Israeli historian […]
Ben-Dror Yemini: Not Always Saying What is Comfortable to Hear
This is my translation of an op-ed written by Ben-Dror Yemini, originally published on the Yediot Ahronot website on 6 Feb 2020 and posted here with his permission. Note that there are two topics that he undertakes in this one piece. * * * * * He Offered Praise but Brought on a Disaster It […]
Watch Your Tax-Shekels At Work for You!
Did you know that you can see if our MKs are busy working for us minute by minute? The Knesset website has a feature I just discovered and you have to give it a try. Go to this Knesset link and you can see which MKs are currently in the building. At the time I […]
Inon Dan Kehati: Pursuing the Slogan and Missing the Peace
One of the main obstacles for the emergence of peace and prosperity, for both Palestinians and Jews, is the dogmatic perception that sanctifies the failed Two State Solution as if it were a religion, and prevents any new political ideas and approaches to emerge and clarify our future. Two weeks ago, Dr. Gershon Baskin wrote […]
Arab Council Against BDS – Inviting Jews back “Home”. Hmmm.
I may ruffle some feathers here, but I gave myself time to synthesize the thing and I still feel now the same way I did when the article Arab Thinkers Call to Abandon Boycotts and Engage with Israel first came out. I grimmaced and felt my spine straighten, like a boxer anticipating the next move […]
Deal of the Century: Changing the Language If Not Much Else
If Trump’s Deal of the Century had any binding enforcement capabilities, it would be an incredible coup for Israel. If the deal is merely a new starting point for negotiations between the Palestinian Authority and Israel, it is more of the same of what we have already seen for the past 70 years. With one […]
Terrorism Study Teaches Me About PA Rentier Economy
I was curious what I would find in a relatively recent article with the title: “Democratic skepticism and support for terrorism in the Palestinian Territories” written by James A. Piazza of Penn State University. I learned one thing from the article that has nothing to do with the substance of the research itself, namely, the […]
Can Palestinian Arabs Support Democracy and Terrorism Too?
What is the relationship between attitudes toward democracy and support for terrorism? James A. Piazza of Penn State University examined just that in his relatively recent article: “Democratic skepticism and support for terrorism in the Palestinian Territories“. His abstract states that some citizens of Arab countries in general view democracy as an intrusion into their […]