UPDATE: As soon as I posted a link to my Facebook account, its algorithm flagged the image to the left as content too graphic for its readers to see (see censored post to the right). This algorithm censorship is repulsive. As the conflict in Jerusalem spreads to Gaza, where Israel has just murdered 9 Palestinian […]
Daniel Pipes Posts Anti-Palestinian Genocidal Billboard Ads in Downtown Tel Aviv
One of Daniel Pipes‘ affiliate groups, the Israel Victory Project, paid for skyscraper-size billboards in Tel Aviv featuring images of Mahmoud Abbas and Ismail Haniyeh blindfolded, holding a white flag and begging for mercy on their knees, while Israeli helicopter gunships hover over a decimated Palestinian landscape. The caption is: “You can only make peace […]
Yom HaShoah and Its False Premises
Today is Yom HaShoah, an international day of mourning for victims of the Holocaust. I have written often here on this subject. When I was a graduate student I compiled the oral history of an Auschwitz survivor, publishing it in the Los Angeles Times on Yom Hashoah 1977. In the 1990s, I visited Theresienstadt while […]
Facebook Suspension for Criticizing Israeli Rabbinic Racism
Yesterday, I published a post consisting of translations of verbatim video recordings of two senior Israeli settler rabbis. They justified the Holocaust, said “Hitler was right,” advocated that Palestinians become servants of Israelis, and claimed Jewish genetic superiority over other “races.” After publishing I posted links to my Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts. Today, I […]
