#GazaUnderAttack on Citizen Radio
Israeli Channel 10 military anchor Alon Ben David stands beside a graphic reading, "Death toll: Gaza, 25; Israel, 0" (via Ami Kaufman at 972mag.com) I discussed Israel’s real motives for its recent...
View ArticleFrance’s #Toulouse killings and the Salafist-Far Right alliance
Members of Forsanne Alizza join Catholic rightists in protest against a supposedly "Christianophobic" theatrical production As I write this, the standoff continues in Toulouse, France between French...
View ArticleAfter sabotaging Beinart talk, East Bay Jewish Federation leader vows to kill...
Update/correction: I received the following note today from Peter Beinart explaining why his East Bay appearance was cancelled: “[The East Bay JCC] pulled out because a JVP person was moderator and...
View ArticleThe arms sale that inspired Grass’s “What Must Be Said” (and a footnote on...
The publication of German Nobel Prize Laureate Gunter Grass’s poem, “Was gesagt werden muss” (What Must Be Said), has triggered a predictable avalanche of outrage, from Benjamin Netanyahu’s vitriolic...
View ArticleIsraeli mercenary firm proposes “violent action” against African refugees
The Israeli daily Maariv recently reported [in Hebrew] that BTS, a mercenary firm run by a former Israeli army colonel and veteran bodyguard, Beni Tal, proposed to Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai a plan to...
View ArticleIn a fear society, where some facts are crimes
Tel Aviv University was built on the ruins of the Palestinian village of Sheikh Muwannis. The university’s faculty lounge is the village mukhtar’s former home. At the corner of Arlosoroff and Ibn...
View ArticleAnother major conflict of interest for the NY Times Jerusalem Bureau
New York Times Jerusalem Deputy Bureau Chief Isabel Kershner is married to Hirsh Goodman, an Israeli citizen and prominent liberal Zionist intellectual. Goodman works at a military-linked Israeli think...
View ArticleGiulio Meotti: Serial Plagiarist or Common Hasbarist? (Updated)
YNet's Giulio Meotti likes to cut and paste Update: Marc Tracy reports today that YNet and Commentary have severed their relationships with Meotti as a result of his plagiarism. Il Mondi Di Annibale,...
View Article“There will be no Palestinian state”– An interview with Palestine Papers...
On the 45th anniversary of the Naksa, former PLO advisor and Palestine Papers whistleblower Ziyad Clot says a Palestinian state existing alongside Israel will never be achieved Last month, thousands of...
View ArticleThe right to resist is universal: A farewell to Al Akhbar and Assad’s apologists
“Syrian weapons are being used – most unfortunately – against our camp, while the rulers of Damascus continue to repeat that they are here in Lebanon in order to defend our camp. This is a murderous...
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