One Vile Accusation Against Israel that Just Will Not Die

This is Part II of the critique of an article glorifying women’s resistance movements in the Middle East that tells many lies about Israel. The article is called Middle Eastern Women between Oppression and Resistance: Case Studies of Iraqi, Palestinian and Kurdish Women of Turkey; it was written by Khodary, Salah and Mohsen of Egypt […]

‘Palestinian’ Women Resist Israeli ‘Occupation’ in Fake Academia

This is Part I of a three-part series critiquing a single article that uses ‘analysis’ of women’s ‘resistance’ as a vehicle by means of which to vilify Israel. The article is called Middle Eastern Women between Oppression and Resistance: Case Studies of Iraqi, Palestinian and Kurdish Women of Turkey; it was written by Khodary, Salah […]

Israeli & Palestinian Narratives: How Academics Shape History

Professor Emeritus Shifra Sagy is a prolific writer of academic papers. Her 2002 paper, entitled “Interpretations of the Past and Expectations for the Future Among Israeli and Palestinian Youth“, has so far been cited by authors of 70 articles, including one published recently that led me to her article. In this work, she and colleagues […]

Journalists, War Crimes, Fake News — Is There a Connection?

Fake news has become a “thing”. How can we know when we are being fed fake news? Especially when a particular journalist has a good reputation and the news outlet in which he or she publishes has a good reputation. Some people seem to think they have it all figured out — if you are […]

Bashing Israel In A Linguistics Paper Without Being Noam Chomsky

What can I say! It looks like every topic of scholastic endeavour can be used to vilify Israel. Who cares if the work makes sense? The main thing is to make Israel look bad. How can you make something normal into something pathological? Easy. Watch! The paper is called “The Changing of Arabic Terminology in […]

Industry of Lies: Answer to fake news and fake academia

The subject matter of this book can make your blood boil. But reading it made me smile. First of all, the title is quite unique in our contemporary world: Industry of Lies: Media, Academia, and the Israeli-Arab Conflict. Until the 1980s, the conflict was, indeed, called the Israeli-Arab conflict. Once the Arabs in Judea & […]