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 […]
Why is the Israeli Supreme Court Deciding Who is a Jew?
Imagine this: American Christian denominations are battling tooth and nail over defining who is a Christian, including whether conversion performed by one may be recognized by the other. Imagine a country in which Southern Baptists refuse to marry Roman Catholics, and Unitarians refuse to marry Episcopalians. All because they refuse to recognize the other denominations […]
My Brush with JDL Bombers: Murderers of Palestinian-American Activist Live Freely in Israel
הרוצחים בינינו: ברוך בן יוסף וישראל פוקס, שני החשודים ברצח הפעיל הפלסטיני-אמריקני אלכס עודה, חיים בגלוי בישראל Today, I read an article that brought up very bad, sad memories for me. In 1986, I had just left a PhD program at UC Berkeley to work for one of the first grassroots national Jewish progressive organizations, […]
Senior Israeli Security Minister: We Will Redeem the Temple Mount, Make It Ours
NOTE: This is an expanded version of an article published earlier this week by Middle East Eye. The headline blasted off the pages of Israel HaYom: Israel’s Public Security Minister, Gilad Erdan, boasted: “Freedom of worship on the Temple Mount? It can happen in the next few years, a decade at most.” The explicit meaning […]
