Almost every Jew takes pride when they see a Star of David (magen David) . For them, it represents Jewish peoplehood and solidarity. They wear it on chains around their neck. German Jewish soccer clubs used it as emblems on their uniforms before the Holocaust. Unfortunately, you even see Jewish visitors at Holocaust camps wrapping […]
American Muslims to Saudis, American Jews to Israel: Why Do You Hate Us?
NOTE: I’ve just published a new piece at Middle East Eye, Israel elections: The vultures are circling Netanyahu. Read who’s up, who’s down, will Bibi survive, does any of it matter? Give it a read and please promote it via social media and e-mail. Saudi Arabia’s curious response to the extraordinary feat of electing the first […]
UJA Federation Chief Executive: ‘Israel Makes Donors Want to Vomit’
Maariv published an eye-opening report a few days ago regarding an interview with the chief executive of the largest Jewish communal fundraising organization in the U.S., UJA Federation of NY. It’s leader, Eric Goldstein, was almost suicidally candid (something for which such executives are not known) about the impact Israel’s brutalism towards the Palestinians is […]
Israel Privileges Jews, But Only the “Right” Jews
From the first moment Zionists discovered another people lived in Palestine, the Zionist movement has faced a fatal dilemma. Because Zionism declares that it is the national movement of self-determination of the Jewish people. There is no provision in Zionism for another people existing in the land of Israel. Thus, from its inception Zionism deprecated […]
