NEWS: Thanks to Shir Hever for interviewing me at Real News Network about my writings on the Israeli medical scandal concerning Yemenite children. I'd be grateful if you'd watch (below) and pass it on to others via social media and e-mail. Thanks as well to Dr. Alice Rothschild, who wrote an excellent post on the same subject, adding her important … [Read more...]
Israeli Minister Calls UNESCO Recognition of Hebron as World Heritage Site, “Holocaust Denial”
Let it never be said that Israeli pols don't know how to chew the scenery when they have to act the part of the outraged victim on the world stage. In recent days, UNESCO declared Hebron's Old City and Ibrahimi Mosque as World Heritage sites. Though the wording of the resolution wasn't released, since the Palestinian representative offered the proposal, … [Read more...]
Israel’s Final Solution to the ‘Palestine Problem’
One of the ruling Bayit Yehudi's leading firebrands is Orthodox settler, MK Bezalel Smotrich. He has a long and sordid history inciting hatred of almost every Israeli minority, Jewish or Palestinian. He's hosted a "Beast Day" featuring live animals on Gay Pride Day. He called himself a "proud homophobe." He rejects the term "Jewish terrorism," and the … [Read more...]
History of Israeli Far-Right Collusion with Both Hitler and Stalin
It's fairly well-known that both Yishuv political movements, the far-right and socialist left, collaborated (or proposed collaborating) with the Nazis when it appeared they could win WWII. In the 1930s, Chaim Arlosoroff, on behalf of Ben Gurion's Mapai, negotiated the Haavara Agreement with the Nazis. The property and valuables of Jews who fled Nazi … [Read more...]