Israel Diaries

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Meir Baruchin: Why was this teacher arrested!

I first wrote about Meir Baruchin in 2020, when he was fired for telling high school students in his civics classes that they should not enlist in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). Two days ago, on 9 November, he was arrested. The charge, according to Haaretz, the only English language news site to cover the […]

Lawyer from Shfaram must be good – posted public posts praising Hamas . . .

. . . and then when arrested and the judge extends his remand, he successfully petitions the judge that his name be withheld from publication because . . . get this: because it may “unjustifiably” ruin his good reputation and because he has Jewish clients. This was reported in ynet in Hebrew. I have not […]

Proof of Incitement: Add these Israeli NGOs to the list of terrorist organizations?

Yesterday, in an article published in United with Israel, I raised the possibility that Jewish leftists were on hand at Susya soley for the purposes of recording the violence and making the false accusation that settlers attacked Arabs in a playground, chasing the children away. It is logical to assume that the activists did not […]