Noah Efron wonders in Foreign Policy about the Jewish state’s ability to eat itself from the inside: Orthodox and secular Israelis are locked in a macabre pas de deux that serves each group as it tries to negotiate its own depressing reality. For ultra-Orthodox and secular Israelis, decrying loudly the vicious vice of the other…
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From Colombo to Gaza via Geneva
The Gaza war continues to reverberate in the strangest of places: Veteran Sri Lankan diplomat Dayan Jayatilleka has been sacked triggering speculation that his protest against Israeli incursion into Gaza could have prompted the move. Jayatilleka, Sri Lanka’s permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva, said he hadn’t the “foggiest notion” why he was…
How to build an equal set of laws
An idea worth considering yet utterly ignored by most of the global, Jewish Diaspora: Amateur legislators with internet connections and good Portuguese are invited to draft Portugal a new constitution, as part of a new experiment encouraging Web users to edit the document as if it were a Wikipedia entry. Some Portugese officials think Israel…
How to handle human rights the Israeli way
The Wonk Room reports: Reporting that the Israeli government “has decided to take a much more aggressive stance” toward human rights NGOs, the Jerusalem Post quotes Netanyahu spokesman Mark Regev attacking Human Rights Watch for raising raising funds from private Saudi individuals. Regev told the Post that “A human rights organization raising money in Saudi…
The borders are yet to be drawn
Oops: A tourism campaign depicting the areas of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights as part of Israel has been banned by the advertising watchdog following hundreds of complaints. The poster campaign, run by the Israeli Government Tourist Office, ran with the headline “experience Israel” with a picture of a boy snorkelling with…
The Palestinian experience
An interesting new film about the Middle East conflict but from a very different perspective: A woman from Gaza stands at an Israeli check-point. We can only see her back but it is clear that in shame she opens her top to a female Israeli soldier to show that her breasts have been removed in…
Religious Jews cause trouble in Jerusalem
First Fox News a few days ago aired footage of a non-violent protest in Palestine being violently attacked by Israeli soldiers. Now, on Sunday it was ultra-orthodox Jews fighting with police during a protest over the opening of a parking lot on Sabbath:
Checkpoints are still there
Another day in the life of the West Bank settlement project. A wonderful blog, Israel’s Back Yard, documents what most Israelis and Jews don’t want to see or hear.
How to get paid to write about settler madness
Zionist activists, here is your calling. Get paid to spread the word of the wonderful Jewish state. Write about freedom, democracy and the occupying way. Work on those keyboard skills, kids: The Foreign Ministry unveiled a new plan this week: Paying talkbackers to post pro-Israel responses on websites worldwide. A total of NIS 600,000 (roughly…