Hands up who wants to visit an “enemy state”?: The High Court of Justice on Tuesday granted permission for Israeli Arab writer Ala Halihal to visit Beirut, despite opposition from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Interior Minister Eli Yishai. Generally, it is forbidden for Israeli citizens to visit Lebanon, considered by Israel to be an…
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How Israel markets the joys in Gaza
The latest edition of Gaza Gateway: The following guide was inspired by a report by the Government of Israel, summarizing Israel’s humanitarian activities for the Gaza Strip in 2009 and at the start of 2010, which was submitted yesterday to the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee. Take things out of context. When you say that, “41…
Boycott Iran but embrace Israel like a young girl in need
Oh, the irony, Here’s Jewish news service JTA publishing a piece demanding that private companies divest from Iran because it’s a threat to world peace blah blah blah. Of course, if anybody dares suggest that a company making money from the Israeli occupation of Palestine should be boycotted they’re labeled extremists and mad. Iran is…
Jews who don’t marry Jews
How to be a good Jew: Rumored wedding bells for Bar Refaeli and Leonardo DiCaprio may ring true or false, but… these are already being muffled… by controversy. “It is not by chance that you were born Jewish,” wrote Baruch Marzel in a letter… he sent Refaeli through her mother (and that… promptly appeared in the press).… “Your grandmother…
The so-called Arab street is growing impatient with Israel
An editorial in the Arab News that shows the growing anger in the Middle East towards Israel (despite Jerusalem Post writer Caroline Glick arguing that in fact the “moderate”, authoritarian and US-backed Arab states want Israel to take on Iran and win): The Israeli Army’s plan to deport tens of thousands of Palestinians from the…
News flash, Jews: another Holocaust isn’t coming
A good editorial in Haaretz: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used the official ceremony for Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday to warn about the Iranian threat. “The world gradually accepts Iran’s statements of destruction against Israel and we still do not see the necessary international determination to stop Iran from arming,” Netanyahu said, calling on “all…
We’re Jewish and we would like to ban this
Is the Zionist Diaspora somehow pre-programmed to try and censor anything that mildly challenges Israeli policies? The latest madness in Canada.
How to fight the occupation with a few good men and women
Israeli peace group Ta’ayush – not just talking but doers against the occupation – on another week in the West Bank: As in every week of the year, we woke up at 07:00 on a Saturday morning to oppose injustice. We, is a group of about 15, mostly Israeli and some International Activists lead by…
Remind us why America can solve the Middle East crisis, again?
Daniel Pipes reminds us that Washington’s supposed attempts at peace are really counter-productive: ….The “peace process” is in actuality a “war process.” Diplomatic negotiations through the 1990s led to a parade of Israeli retreats that had the perverse effect of turning the middling-bad situation of 1993 into the awful one of 2000. Painful Israeli concessions,…
Muslims allowed to throw shoes in protest (and Jews want to throw something, too)
This story may need no introduction (except to say that I wonder what, say, Jews, Christians and Hindus would like to throw, just to make things fair, of course): Scotland Yard has bowed to Islamic sensitivities and accepted that Muslims are entitled to throw shoes in ritual protest — which could have the unintended consequence…