This week brought a strange confluence of events after the IDF assassinated senior Islamic Jihad (IJ) commander, Bahaa Abu al-Ata. In doing so, Israel violated a ceasefire it had signed after the last battering of Gaza in Operation Protective Edge. In response, the Palestinian militant group rained 450 missiles on southern Israel leading to extensive […]
Blacklisted: Why I am No Longer Welcome in Israel
One of the most sinister of all Israeli government ministries is Strategic Affairs, run by a Likudist with raging political ambitions, Gilad Erdan. The ministry operates like a quasi-intelligence outfit replete with scores of former Shin Bet and Mossad operatives playing shady, unspecified roles in rooting out ‘anti-Israelism’ wherever it may be found, and as […]
Israeli Anti-BDS Ministry Pays for Best ‘Journalism’ Money Can Buy
Gilad Erdan’s ministry for strategic affairs has become a third intelligence branch (let’s call it “the third eye”) of the Israeli state alongside the Shin Bet and Mossad, It’s brief is to fight an existential battle against the world-wide campaign to destroy Israel, aka “delegitimization.” This primarily takes the form of a war to the […]
BDS, Joe McCarthy, and the New Communist Menace
Over the past few years, I’ve watched with growing alarm as the far-right Likud government develops ever newer threats promoting fear among its voters. Bibi Netanyahu has played the Iran menace like a Stradivarius in order to serve as a pressure valve, releasing air from the international campaign on behalf of Israel-Palestine. He’s raised billions […]
