Arab Israeli Right-winger Wants To Be Safe
I met an Arab Israeli who belongs to a right-wing party. That does not happen much. Sayid (not his real name) is not running for office. He is just a rank and file member alongside Jewish Israelis who believe in the right-wing ideology. A young academic in his thirties, he lives in an Arab village […]
2019 Elections in Israel: Avi’s Voting Guide
Avi Kessner put together a list of all the parties running for elections in Israel on April 9 this year. A kind of Guide for the Perplexed Israeli Voter. I must say that I enjoyed editing his list because I learned about parties I had never heard of. Think how boring it would be if […]
One Street in Hebron? One Street? Really, BBC? One Street?
The BBC produced a beautiful website promoting anti-Israeli Breaking-the-Silence propaganda on a sleek enviable platform. They called it: “Hebron: One Street, two sides“. Take a look at it; this is the quality of material Israel should be producing. Here, I want to contest the very title they gave this work. At the end, I will […]
Fighting Terror By Draining Their Stash
Well, if not their stash, then the virtual pipes through which their stash flows on its way to their computers, after which it is impossible to touch. In our modern digital age, money no longer has to be kept in banks. People can store bitcoin on their personal computers. The trick is to catch it […]
Amnesty and the Anti-Boycott Law: Is This How Our Government “Protects” Israel Against BDS?
Why is there even an argument about this? Why does Israel need to make a law saying that organizations such as Amnesty International Israel, working within the country that promote boycotts against her and, ultimately, her destruction, can be denied access to the public purse? Why is that not self-evident? Does that really fall under […]
Explaining Ilhan Omar’s Antisemitism In Simple Language
You can get into long intelligent discourse to explain how Ilhan Omar’s tweet of February 11 exposes her antisemitism. Or you can show how it is in very simple language. Here is the tweet that started a new storm: This drew criticism and support. Some tried to explain how Omar’s tweet is a clear example […]
How Not To Break ‘Breaking The Silence’
A few days ago, Breaking the Silence sent out a celebratory email to their subscribers, in English and in Hebrew, marking their victory against those who want to silence them. This case shows exactly why we have to be very careful what words we use and what accusations we throw around. We cannot give organizations […]
Can Any Good Come of USA Disengagement From the Palestinian Authority?
First, the USA stopped funding UNRWA. Then they stopped funding USAID, the body through which funds were directed to the various American and international humanitarian aide organizations that provided much needed help and services to the people living under the Palestinian Authority (PA). And finally, just a few days ago, the last of the military […]
Israeli PM Hopeful Benny Gantz Makes Himself a Stooge For Jew-Haters
Benny Gantz’s election campaign videos are being used by Electronic Intifada to tar and feather Israel. When this is your starting point: . . . Gantz, like Netanyahu, is accurately reflecting the desires and fantasies of an Israeli public that views the willingness to shed the blood of defenseless Palestinians caged in ghettos after decades […]
Former Haifa Mayor, Yona Yahav, and Reflections on Political Vision
Yona Yahav is a man of vision. In 1956, as a twelve-year-old boy, he envisioned himself Mayor of Haifa. Everything he did from that point on was with that goal in mind. And he was not an idle dreamer – he worked out what he had to know, not just to get to be mayor, […]