The silencing of an important voice

This is concerning news sent by Israeli human rights group New Profile: Dear Friends, This morning I by purely chance learned Haaretz had fired Meron Benvenisti.…  I phoned him and he confirmed this, relating that Haaretz had fired him at the end of May.…  His dismissal will be formally activated at the end of June,…

Defending the occupation is such fun

Following my essay in yesterday’s Haaretz, Jewish blogger Jewlicious reponds with fury: Oh, Mr. Loewenstein wants my outrage. I, as an American Jew should be outraged. Otherwise, I am a pro-Likud kinda bastard with inhumane and un-Jewish views leading Israel down a horrific alley.

Grapes are clearly a terrorist fruit

So who is really in charge here? The United States has stepped up pressure on Israel regarding the Gaza Strip: Three weeks ago it sent Jerusalem a diplomatic note officially protesting Gaza policy and demanding a more liberal opening of the border crossings to facilitate reconstruction. The Gaza borders could be opened today if the…

Why aren’t Jews outraged by Israeli occupation?

My following article appears in leading Israeli daily Haaretz: During this year’s AIPAC conference in Washington, Executive Director Howard Kohr warned the 7,000-plus crowd that the global movement to “delegitimize Israel” was gathering steam. “These voices are laying the predicate for an abandonment,” he said. His sentiments were almost apocalyptic: “The stakes in that battle…

Of course you can cease construction

Totally freezing colonies in the West Bank is doable. The political will simply isn’t there: The report in Haaretz on Tuesday whereby the U.S. administration has become convinced that it would be impossible to freeze West Bank settlement construction altogether came as a shock to Israeli peace activists. The activists quickly handed over to the…

Is this really the message Zionists want to get out?

The documentary A Case for Israel looks like a sad case of desperation. Netanyahu, Barak, Glick, Dershowitz, Sharansky. The same voices, no mention of the occupation and demonisation of the Palestinians. This kind of propaganda simply no longer works:

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