Last year, I wrote a post about an amazing talk delivered by Chavka Folman-Raban in the midst...
Richard Silverstein
Silverstein is an independent journalist and has published Tikun Olam since 2003. It exposes the secrets of the Israeli national security state. He publishes regularly at the New Arab, and Jacobin Magazine. His work has also appeared in Al Jazeera English, The Nation, Truthout and other outlets.
There are two divergent tracks that the Sharon obituaries are taking in the media today: either he...
Today is the second installment in the Israeli-American soap opera I’m calling the Pinto-Grimm scandal. Yesterday, I...
This story begins with Israel’s coterie of wonder rabbis, who parlay their status far beyond the spiritual...
If you either love folk music (as I do), are a Coen Brothers devote (as I am),...
Tonight’s news is yet another in those series of wacky ‘flyers’ that Israeli-Arab peace negotiators sometimes take...
One of the more preposterous bits of news coming out of Israel is that Israelis actually believe...
Ben White writes that Idan Raichel, one of Israel’s biggest pop stars and a celebrity in the...
Tonight I am proud and ashamed at the same time. Earlier today, 30,000 African refugees and their...
In the past, I’ve featured the skeptical reporting of Reuven Pedatzur and research of Prof. Ted Postol...
Both the Wall Street Journal (firewall) and N.Y. Times are reporting that Hezbollah has transferred some of...
Oh dear, oh dear. Daniel Seaman, one of the Israeli government’s ace hasbara flacks has stuck his...















