“New Jews”, argues CNN, is where Judaism is now heading; less keen on Israel, more worldly and more likely to inter-marry: “When I’m on stage screaming, hitting my face with a microphone and pouring beer on my head, at least I’m singing about the Torah,” said the 26-year-old founder of PunkTorah, an outreach effort to…
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Can we now acknowledge that Obama loves Israel a little too closely?
J Street’s statement about the Obama administration’s capitulation to Israeli demands reeks of desperation; what happens if Washington doesn’t deliver, people? Though we welcome the government of Israel’s expressed willingness to restrain settlement growth, we echo the Secretary’s statement today in Morocco that offers made to date fall far short of the Obama administration’s position…
One state solution moves closer and closer
Steve Walt in Foreign Policy on America’s backing for racial segregation in Palestine: The two-state solution was on life-support when Obama took office, and at first it appeared he might make a serious effort to nurse it back to health and make it a reality. At least, that’s what he said he was going to…
Jews hidden in dark corners around the world, like Yemen
A fascinating feature from the weekend’s Wall Street Journal on the profound troubles facing Jews in Yemen. I often argue anti-Semitism is a phenomenon that is deliberately exaggerated in the West to justify Israeli actions, but these stories seem real and devastating: In his new suburban American home, Shaker Yakub, a Yemeni Jew, folded a…
AIPAC loves Obama and peace does not
A sadly accurate headline from Eileen Read on True/Slant after the Obama administration’s latest cave-in to Israel: Hillary Clinton Makes a New Friend in the MidEast: AIPAC
Terrorism is defined by the West Bank project
Just how many Jewist terrorists exist in Israel? As importantly, almost daily abuse of Palestinians in the West Bank by Jewish settlers is both ignored and defended by the Jewish state: A senior Shin Bet official said Jewish terrorists that have not been caught are still at large and may be planning future attacks, Israel…
Poverty defines high-tech Israel
Israel is not just a state that indulges Jewish terrorists (see here, here and here), it’s also woefully inadequate managing its own population, despite receiving billions of dollars of aid every year: One in every four Israelis lived below the poverty line in 2008, a National Insurance Institute report revealed on Monday. The report showed…
South African Jews killing Arabs in the name of Zionism?
Al-Jazeera reports: Efforts to prosecute those who may have committed war crimes in Israel’s war on Gaza have spread beyond the Middle East. A lawyer in South Africa has identified 75 South African nationals who he says were fighting with the Israeli army in the war earlier this year. How many Australian Jews fight in…
Young Jews must lead the way or occupation will continue forever
Washington’s capitulation to Israeli demands to allow continued expansion of the occupation is just the latest signal that the Middle East will not be changed by pretty Barack Obama speeches. Mondoweiss outlines what’s at stake and the necessity to increase our grassroots effort to speak above and beyond political spin: At a panel at J…
God gives Jews land and Israel buys the lie
Mainstream Australian television, on SBS Dateline, last night featured a compelling portrait of Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in East Jerusalem. A Jewish settler sums up the attitude: We don’t care about what the world thinks about what our land is and what our land is not. Because we are a chosen nation and…