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Israeli Anti-BDS Ministry Secretly Buys Media Coverage
Many of us know that Israel is a corrupt society and that the corruption stems in large part from the gross, illegal, and interminable seven-decade oppression of the Palestinian minority both inside and outside Israel. There are of course many complicated reasons and analyses worth exploring regarding this subject (we’ll focus on one aspect in […]
Torygraph’s Credulous Reporting Straight from the Horse’s Mouth: Israeli Intelligence
Recently, the Telegraph published what it billed as a major expose of Turkish collusion with Hamas to foment terror attacks against Israel. The story made it appear that Turkey had become a major haven for the international terror operations of one of the most fearsome Islamist militant groups in the region. The claims in the […]
A Love Affair: The Zionist and the Nazi
Many years ago, I was researching the history of political assassinations within the Zionist movement for an essay which the London Review of Books commissioned (and then refused to publish). One of the intriguing murders was that of Chaim Arlosoroff in Tel Aviv in 1933. But it wasn’t just the circumstances of his killing and […]
