Tonight is Christmas eve. I read a tweet by a Palestinian which likened Jesus to contemporary Palestinians. But then I recalled that Jesus was Jewish (not Palestinian), a native son of Nazareth. As a Jew, how would he react to today’s Israeli apartheid? We have an excellent historical example to guide us. More than anything, […]
Arson Attack Against Jerusalem Church is Settler Terrorism
Earlier this week, an Israeli settler hurled a Molotov cocktail into the Church of All Nations at the Garden of Gethsemane. It is one of Jerusalem’s most beautiful and sacred sites, where Jesus is reputed to have spent the night before his Crucifixion. The attack ignited the wooden pews and damaged the exquisite mosaic floor […]
Trump in Warsaw Fighting Off the Mohammedan Hordes
Donald Trump’s speech before the brutalist-style Warsaw Uprising (1944) memorial (take a look at the dark, gargantuan Nazi overshadowing Trump in the accompanying picture–this is an irony the planners of the speech seemed not to account for) in the run-up to the G-20 meeting this week, was a horror show. Commentators have compared it to […]
Steve Bannon’s Romance with Hollywood Islamophobia
In the past few days, stories about two different Steve Bannon film projects, one of which was never produced and the second, which was screened at this summer’s Republican convention. The Washington Post reported on the first film, which Bannon was shopping around Hollywood in 2007. It was to be titled (somewhat awkwardly): Destroying the Great […]
