Damn Israeli Bastards! If You Believe Reuters, That Is!
Yesterday, Reuters put out a press report that was copy-pasted by a number of other so-called news sites around the world. I was shown the report on Canadian Global News, but no reason to analyze the secondary source. Let us look at the original Reuters article, one commonly used source of fake journalism so rampant […]
Fake Journalism About Israel — The New Opium For The Masses
Global News regurgitated pablum dished out by Reuters yesterday in spite of Global‘s claim to provide: . . . deep engaging content that puts complex world issues in perspective. Our 12 local newsrooms provide up-to-the-minute community-based news, weather and information, while our national coverage features stories, analysis and deep, engaging content about issues in Canada […]
Do Not Mistake This For Weakness
Jew: You want to do what is right and what is humane. You want to live up to your own cherished values and you want the values of your nation to be true to those you were brought up to see as the values of your tradition and the sages, whether you are religious or […]
Bet You Cannot Guess Who Invented An Israeli Utopian Fantasy
Who wants us to believe that Jews and Arabs got along just hunky-dory before we uppity Jews decided to become Zionists? Professor Menachem Klein of Bar Ilan University’s Department of Political Science does. Here! Let us start with his first sentence in a recently published article (title and abstract at the end of this post): […]
American Jews — Galloping to the Polling Stations in Israel?
American Jews, you have the right to your opinions. But you do not have the right to tell Israel what to do. That right would only be yours were you to move here and accept the automatic citizenship bestowed upon Jews from everywhere just because they are Jews. In fact, some of us Israelis tell […]
Minority Community Recognition — Long Overdue!
I just got this Press Release in my email inbox. It is unfortunate that the initiative for a law cementing our relationship with minority communities among us who share our destiny had to come as a result of the backlash from the Nation-State Law. However, better late than never. The proposed bill is copied below […]
Ghetto Walls In Haifa And THAT Wall!
An Arab academic originally from Haifa and now living in the USA refers to Wadi Nisnas as a ghetto in a paper published in the recent special issue of the International Journal of American Studies on the topic of Walls. Two of the eight articles (all can be opened free of charge) in the volume […]
Ouch! The Nation-State Law and the Druze
What do you do when you love your country and feel so woven into its fabric and then the threads begin to unravel? Sitting before Safwan Mreeh in a new coffee shop in Daliyat-el-Carmel, I began to get a deep sense of what seems to be the experience of many of the Druze around us. […]
How an Israeli Professor Accuses Israel of Judaizing Israel
I think some people are quite thrilled that there are Jewish vandals who can be trotted out for display when they want to demonize the Jews. How else to explain the fact that, in a paper arguing that Israel was busy “Judaizing” Muslim holy places in 1948-1967, the very first sentence is about the 2013 […]
The All New Annotated Israeli Declaration of Independence
In the hullabaloo over the new Nation-State Law (see here, here and here), some people say the new Basic Law should have repeated certain parts of what is in the Declaration of Independence. I decided to check out the Declaration for myself and was surprised by some of what I read there. I thought it […]