Perhaps someone needs to remind Rachel Shabi, and ‘Comment is Free’ editors, that the Peel Commission has adjourned, the Jewish nation is a wonderful reality, and the state’s radical bi-national reconstitution will never, […]
There are two things Glenn Greenwald and I have in common – which is two more than I realized only an hour ago. He has the flu, according to his latest ‘Comment […]
This is just grotesque. Per Palestinian Media Watch: The Facebook page for Fatah in Lebanon has posted this picture of a mother dressing her young son with a suicide belt. This picture […]
An apparatchik named Seumas Milne, who worked for the decidedly pro-Stalinist magazine called Straight Left, and who’s currently serving as the Guardian’s Associate Editor, has written a book. I don’t intend on […]
A Sept. 10 edition of the Guardian’s ‘Picture Desk Live: the best news pictures of the day’ included the following photo of six Palestinians “inspecting” a destroyed building in Gaza: Here’s the Guardian’s caption: Palestinians inspect the […]
H/T Chas “Sometimes the left distinguishes between vulnerable European Jews who have been persecuted and latter-day “Prussians” in Israel. Yet it is often forgotten that a majority of Israelis just happen to […]
A guest post by AKUS As you know, Hebrew is written from right to left, not left to right. But the mere fact that the letters are arranged in the opposite direction […]
Cross posted by Yishai Goldflam at CAMERA (This is a translated version of the original which appeared at CAMERA’s Hebrew site, Presspectiva.) Amidst its financial hardships and declining Israeli readership, the Israeli daily, Ha’aretz, has upped […]
H/T Chas and Harvey Here is ‘Comment is Free’ contributor Ben White on TwitLonger – a service that lets you post messages that need more than 140 characters and send them to […]
Sussita – or Antiochia-Hippos, to call it by its Greek name – sits on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee, towering 350 meters above Kibbutz Ein Gev. Founded around 200 […]
Yesterday, I pointed out an error by the Guardian’s diplomatic editor Julian Borger, in a post he published on the recent U.S. presidential debate titled ‘Fact-checking the final presidential debate’, Oct. 23. Among the […]
The U.S. drama ‘Homeland’, based on the Israeli series Hatufim, was the subject of a column by Peter Beaumont on Oct. 13. The series stars Claire Danes as a CIA officer who believes that a U.S. Marine […]
The Guardian’s diplomatic editor Julian Borger published a post on the recent U.S. presidential debate titled ‘Fact-checking the final presidential debate’, Oct. 23. Among the statements by the candidates checked for accuracy […]
Beginning on Tuesday night, Oct. 24, Hamas and other terrorists in Gaza launched over 70 rockets into Israel. Two workers were injured severely when a rocket hit a farm near Kissufim, and […]
Earlier, I took part in a briefing with Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich of the IDF Spokesman’s unit regarding the intensified rocket fire upon the south of Israel over the past few hours, […]
H/T Simon Plosker Harriet Sherwood’s latest report, Oct. 23, contains a dramatic headline, ‘Israeli poll finds majority in favor of ‘apartheid’ policies. The highlights of the poll reported by Sherwood, and based on a […]
Cross posted by Mark Gardner at the CST Sheikh Raed Salah has triumphantly declared that Muslim birth rates will free Islam-hating Europeans and Americans from “mental subjugation”, and enslavement to“global Zionism” , “Protestant Zionism” and “the Crusader hatred”. The […]
The most interesting aspect of the Guardian/AP report on Oct. 17, ‘Israel used calorie count to limit Gaza food during the blockade‘, in addition to the extremely misleading headline, is that there […]
When David Frost interviewed Israeli historian Benny Morris in July he dismissed (as a minor “academic detail”) Morris’s concern that Palestinian leaders have never recognized the legitimacy of a Jewish state in the region. […]
Cross posted by Richard Millett The reputation of the Jewish community was dragged through the gutter at last night’s book launch of The Battle for Public Opinion in Europe: Changing Perceptions of the Palestine-Israel Conflict. The […]
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