NOTE: Middle East Eye has just published my latest article, Unprecedented and combustible: Why the boycott of Al-Aqsa matters. It deals with last week's attack on the Haram al Sharif and the Muslim boycott of the holy sites. It hasn't been a good week for Bibi Netanyahu. A few days ago he left for Europe under a foreboding cloud of scandal … [Read more...]
Navy Secretly Arrests, Imprisons Senior Officer for Spying for China
Over the weekend, a major story broke about a U.S. Navy senior officer accused of spying for China. It was first reported by a U.S. Naval Institute’s website. He is Lt. Cmdr. Edward C. Lin, who served in the Patrol and Reconnaissance Group, which employs aircraft using highly sensitive technology to track and detect enemy submarines. Presumably, knowing … [Read more...]
BDS and Its Discontents
I was actually trying to figure out a title that would incorporate the phrase "moral malcontents," because that's the way I see the arguments of the academic and chattering class against BDS. They understand that BDS is a moral critique that needs to be rebutted in order to protect Israel's claim to legitimacy. But their arguments manage to come across as … [Read more...]
Shin Bet Recruits Chinese Spies, Fails to Detect Alleged Hamas Smuggling Ring for Years
Though the Shin Bet is reporting a major success in thwarting a Palestinian effort to smuggle funds to a Hamas leader in an Israeli prison, they're not revealing that it took years for them to detect the plot and thwart it. In that time, Sana al-Hafi, age 44, passed "hundreds of thousands" of dollars undetected to her prisoner brother, Sheikh Hussein Abu … [Read more...]