June, 2012

June 10, 2012

How does Yachad solve a problem like Ben White?

Cross posted by the prolific Richard Millett What to do about Yachad? This UK based organisation tha...

June 10, 2012

Fallout from the Hamas essay at ‘Comment is Free’: ‘Giving up the Guardian’

H/T Gerald Cross posted by Charlotte at Digital Politico It may or may not surprise you to know that...

June 10, 2012

Making Hamas Disappear: Amira Hass’s journalistic sleight of hand evokes fictitious Gaza

A guest post by Gidon Ben-Zvi, an Anglo-Israeli writer who blogs at Jerusalem State of Mind “F...

June 9, 2012

Yachad: UK Jews TOGETHER in contempt for Israeli democracy

There is a long-overdue conversation which must be had. It will not be a particularly pleasant one, ...

June 9, 2012

The Six-Day War: Day Three

Cross posted at Jewish Ideas Daily This week, Jewish Ideas Daily commemorates the forty-fifth anni...

June 8, 2012

Postcard from Israel – Mount Bental

The eastern edge of the Golan Heights is scattered with the remains of extinct volcanoes which produ...

June 8, 2012

The Guardian and Hamas: Willing Dupe and Immutable Victim

I came across a passage from a Shelby Steele essay in 2010 (excerpts of which I posted below) which...

June 8, 2012

A festering ‘SOHR’: Does the word “journalism” still apply to the Guardian?

A guest post by AKUS Scanning the ME Live blog apparently run by Brian Whitaker I noticed a comment ...

June 7, 2012

Stunning moral failure of anti-Zionist left: Rachel Shabi compares Zionism to European fascism

The comment (attributed to August Bebel) that anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools can be extende...

June 7, 2012

The Six Day War: Day Two

This week, Jewish Ideas Daily commemorates the forty-fifth anniversary of the Six-Day War with a d...