He implied I couldn’t go home to Haifa when I return to Israel
A Canadian friend shared a videoclip with me. I was horrified to discover that while I was visiting family in Europe, residents of Haifa (where I live) and Tel Aviv were being evacuated. I would have thought my daughter and friends would have told me I could not go back to my home when I […]
This Lie Would be Laughable if People Were Not Taken in by it
The personal Facebook blog by Olive Palestine has about 40K followers. The blog owner must have lots of free time on his hands as he puts up an incredible number of posts each day. Let me show you just one post that demonstrates how he assumes his followers are stupid — and it seems it […]
Security, the Movie: The Power of Lies to Ruin Lives (and Reflections Related to Israel)
The Italian movie, Security, available on Netflix, tells a powerful story of the unwillingness of the population of a small resort town to hear the truth, They shattered a neighbour’s reputation and life on the basis of suppositions and unchallenged suspicions. After I had recovered from the pain I felt at the end of the […]
Jurassic Park Author Dedicated Entire Novel to Fake Media Before Fake Media was a Thing
In 1996, Michael Crichton of Jurassic Park, The Lost World and Andromeda Strain fame published a lesser known novel called “Airframe“. The novel is about an airplane failure that threatened to bring down an American airplane frame manufacturer even though the plane was proven to be safe. When a popular television programme of the “60 […]