El-Mufaqara, Avigayil, and Havat Maon: Where did my anger get me?

This is a story borne out of anger. I was angry at the apparent one-sidedness of the reporting at what happened at el-Mufaqara and the way it seemed everyone I knew accepted the media reports as unadulterated truth. It is a story of how I found a crack in the wall and did not give […]

Susiya Playground: Debunking a Fake News Report about Settler “Violence”

While this article was originally published in United with Israel on 11 November 2021, it remains relevant as the “Susiya playground attack” is still being brought up by anti-Israeli propagandists as if settlers really did attack kids in a playground. Here you have the more complete story of what happened and you can raise this […]

B’Tselem and the Great Return March — Waning Influence?

The anti-Israel Israeli NGO, B’Tselem, has a new Facebook campaign in their continuing efforts to delegitimize Israel, this time concerning a report on the “Great Return March”. Are they achieving their goal? A look at the comments under each post illustrates that the organization may have lost its lustre in the eyes of the public […]

Mitzpe Yair: Why so Little About Such a Violent Incident?

I am still trying to catch up with all the violence that has been taking place in the South Hebron Hills region of late. Last Wednesday, 10 November, there was intense violence near Mitzpe Yair that perhaps parallels, in a way, the the incident that occured on Simchat Torah this year (28 Sept 2021). In […]

B’Tselem Confirms that Checkpoints in Judea and Samaria Not so Bad

Those who protest against the Israeli so-called ‘occupation’ always bring up the subject of prevention of freedom of movement in the Palestinian Authority (PA). For example, Machsom Watch, an organization that reports on the supposedly inhumane behaviour on the part of soldiers manning the checkpoints makes the claim that: Almost every time a Palestinian steps […]