Russia Created a Palestinian Identity Way Before Arafat was Born
“The Invention of Palestine” is a PhD thesis written by former Penn State U student Zachary J. Foster in which he focuses on the creation of the Palestinian identity. Foster has a sense of humour. His unusually lengthy and funny acknowledgements set me up to anticipate reading his thesis with pleasure and making sure I […]
Micha Danzig: Commit this to Memory!
Recently, on a friend’s page, an Arab Supremacist Israel hater wrote the following to me: I respect Judaism for what it is, a religion. European Zionism is Colonialist and racist. Arab Jews and Arab Muslims lived in a relatively peaceful state of co-existence until the intrusion of European Zionism. The European Zionists sowed the seeds […]
What Have Strawberries Got to Do with the Israeli Blockade of Gaza?
We keep on hearing about the Gaza blockade, about how Israel has put the population of Gaza in an open-air prison and we do not let people out or products in. Well, someone in Israel apparently did not get that memo. Look what was reported in an article posted on 12 December 2019: In the […]
I Really Feel Sorry for the Universities in the Palestinian Authority
A new announcement on the website of An-Najah National University in Nablus made me aware of something: The university must find itself between a rock and a hard place! I suppose all universities in the Palestinian Authority (PA) find themselves in the same bind: On the one hand, they need to convince the world of […]
York University Admin Takes a Page From the United Nations Cookbook
If it is good enough for the UN, it must be good enough for York University. Since the negotiation process seeking to resolve the Israeli-Arab conflict (involving Arabs now living under the Palestinian Authority/Hamas) is going so well, Toronto’s York University decided to implement the same approach to a problem on their campus. They were […]
Israeli Jews Against Jewish Israel
While so many of us celebrated France’s National Assembly resolution equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism, there are Jews who behave in the age-old way of self-loathing Jews, something that has a long history. A bunch of idiots wrote a letter to the French newspaper Le Monde protesting the resolution.They claim that there are antisemites among those […]
It is Real Easy to Become an Anti-Zionist
I think I am starting to understand how so many people are convinced of the anti-Zionist position and how they also become antisemitic. I have struggled with this for a long time, as have many others. I have been involved in discussions that included looking for psychological explanations. One suggestion is that Israelis who are […]
When an Elevator is Not Just an Elevator
The Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron is visited by nearly a million people annually, Jews, Muslims, Christians who come to worship at the burial site of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and their wives Sarah, Leah and Rivka, and tourists who come to experience the culture. But some of those who make the trip have […]
Sometimes Shows of Our Resilience Just Make Me Mad
This article makes me angry. It is supposed to warm our hearts and expand our chests in pride at Israeli resilience in the face of danger. But it made me angry. Of course I love how we Israelis come together when we are faced with danger from outside our borders. In this case, wedding […]
Israeli MKs Sucking Up to JStreet 2019
There are a number of Israelis who spoke at the 2019 JStreet National Conference and I will list them at the end of this article, but I want to focus here on the speeches of three of our elected representatives: Nitzan Horowitz, Ayman Odeh and Ehud Barak. This is not the first time an MK […]