Until now, Twitter has been my most important social media resource for promoting my journalism and blog posts. Given the turmoil there, I’ve created a Mastodon account. If you’re on an instance, please Follow me. Promise I’ll follow you back. Hanukah, if you follow the conventional view, is a holiday celebrating Jewish freedom. It marks […]
Almog, Once Sought for War Crimes, Named Jewish Agency Head IDF Gen. Doron Almog escaped arrest in UK after government authorities warned him of arrest warrant
After a year of stalemate among Israeli political parties seeking to dole out a plum patronage job as chairman of the Jewish Agency (JA), the Party bosses have settled on former Maj. Gen. Doron Almog as their choice. Almog served as chief of the IDF’s Southern Command from 2000-2002, which includes Gaza. He was accused […]
Israel’s Abandonment of Ukraine A Nation Birthed in the Shadow of the Holocaust Stands Idly By as Ukraine Comes Under Russian Attack
NOTE: Al Jazeera published an abridged version of this essay here. Poll: 76% of Israelis support Ukraine. Only 10% support Russia. Among Israeli Arab Muslims support of Russia – 35%. More than half the Israelis support official Israeli policy (which is close to neutrality). https://t.co/Glv5GyFueW — Imshin (@imshin) March 4, 2022 Since the start of […]
Arab Jews: the ‘Nakba’ That Wasn’t Zionist claims of a historic mass expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands are largely hype, hasbara, and myth
Over the years, a recurring hasbara trope has accused Arab states of ethnically cleansing their entire Jewish populations in the years between 1948-1956. They marshal vivid maps displaying the numbers of Jews originally in these countries and how many are left currently. Phrases like “expulsion,” “refugee,” “Jewish Nakba,” and “pogroms” are bandied about as if […]