NOTE: Al Jazeera published an abridged version of this essay here. Poll: 76% of Israelis support Ukraine. Only 10% support Russia. Among Israeli Arab Muslims support of Russia – 35%. More than half the Israelis support official Israeli policy (which is close to neutrality). https://t.co/Glv5GyFueW — Imshin (@imshin) March 4, 2022 Since the start of […]
Zelensky Addresses Israeli Knesset… Sort of Israel's Knesset Refused to Gather in Full Plenum, Offering Ukraine's President Diminished Audience
NOTE: Al Jazeera published my analysis of Israel’s disappointing stance toward Ukraine and the Russian invasion. Last week, the New Arab published another piece of mine on social media censorship of speech on Palestine. It focused on my personal battle with Reddit, where a pro-Israel administrator permanently banned me. Today, Ukrainian Pres. Volodymyr Zelensky addressed […]
Israel and Genocide "Apartheid" has become an accepted term regarding Israel's treatment of the Palestinians. Is "Genocide" next?
Over the past year, human rights groups like B’Tselem and Human Rights Watch published damning reports on Israel’s systematic oppression of the Palestinians. For the first time, these groups called Israel an apartheid state. What was new in this terminology is that they not only called the Occupation apartheid, but Israel itself an apartheid state […]
How Hitler Killed Half the Jewish Diaspora and Zionism Projects Death of the Rest
I recently participated in an online panel that accompanied the screening of the film documentary, Yiddish: the Mama Loshn, for the Boulder Jewish Film Festival. I was not invited to the panel as a Yiddishist or professor of Yiddish or Jewish history (the three other panel members were). Instead, director Pierre Sauvage asked me to […]
