Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Apeirogon: Anti-Zionist Organization Gets to be a Movie February 14, 2020 Sherry Oz No Comments Steven Spielberg just acquired the movie rights to the new “novel”, Apeirogon, based upon a day in the lives of an Israeli father and a “Palestinian” father who both lost…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Is This the EU’s Response to Birthright? February 12, 2020 Sherry Oz No Comments 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…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking What Do Students Learn When Teachers Express their Political Views in the Classroom? February 12, 2020 Sherry Oz No Comments 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…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Kirk Douglas: Academic Study Comes Out in Time for His Memorial February 11, 2020 Sherry Oz No Comments 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…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Ben-Dror Yemini: Not Always Saying What is Comfortable to Hear February 9, 2020 Sherry Oz No Comments 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…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Inon Dan Kehati: Pursuing the Slogan and Missing the Peace February 2, 2020 Sherry Oz No Comments 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…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Arab Council Against BDS – Inviting Jews back “Home”. Hmmm. January 31, 2020 Sherry Oz No Comments 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…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Deal of the Century: Changing the Language If Not Much Else January 29, 2020 Sherry Oz No Comments 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…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking What Have Strawberries Got to Do with the Israeli Blockade of Gaza? January 20, 2020 Sherry Oz No Comments 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…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking I Really Feel Sorry for the Universities in the Palestinian Authority January 19, 2020 Sherry Oz No Comments 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…