Whenever peace activists devise a new means of challenging Israel’s Occupation, whether it be BDS, Nakba protests, the Gaza Flotilla, the September UN vote on Palestinian statehood, or the Flight of Return, the primary response from Israel seems something verging on outright or barely controlled hysteria. Bibi Netanyahu said recently that this Friday’s Ben Gurion […]
Israel Drops Sex Harrassment Charge Against Palestinian Researcher Who Fought Back During Intrusive Security Check
18 months ago, Palestinian academic lecturer, Dr. Honida Gaanam, was trying to fly to France for an academic conference. Her problem is that she was flying while Arab. The Ben Gurion airport security guard began to search Ganaam’s bra invasively and the victim fought back by grabbing the guard’s bra and asking her whether she […]
TSA Screwing Up Airport Security? Turn to Israel (NOT)
Why can’t the U.S. be more like Israel? I’d like to do a forensic search to root out the origin of the latest media meme that, given the mess that TSA appears to be making of the new full body airport security screenings, we should turn to Israel as a model for how to do […]
Israel Humiliates U.S. University President Visiting to Oppose BDS
This is the type of Alice in Wonderland universe in which Israel currently exists. Donna Shalala, former Health and Human Services secretary under Bill Clinton and currently president of the University of Miami, participated in an American Jewish Congress anti-BDS dog and pony show in Israel recently. On leaving Israel, she was stopped at Ben […]
