Boy, that headline should bring some of you up short. I know when I was a liberal Zionist a few decades ago, it would've struck me as exceedingly strange. Then, 'Zionist' was a synonym for 'Jew.' You couldn't be a Zionist without being a Jew. And except for a few outliers who seemed beyond the Pale, you couldn't be a Jew without being a Zionist. How … [Read more...]
Trump in Warsaw Fighting Off the Mohammedan Hordes
Donald Trump's speech before the brutalist-style Warsaw Uprising (1944) memorial (take a look at the dark, gargantuan Nazi overshadowing Trump in the accompanying picture--this is an irony the planners of the speech seemed not to account for) in the run-up to the G-20 meeting this week, was a horror show. Commentators have compared it to his "American … [Read more...]
Israel Criminalizes Palestinian Muslim Activism
חשיפה: הוגש כתב אישום תחת צא"פ נגד פעיל התנועה האיסלאמית פיראס אל-עומארי Following up an earlier post I wrote about the arrests of leaders of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, a Palestinian Muslim group involved in religious and social welfare projects throughout Israel. The Shin Bet has engaged in a years' long vendetta against the group and … [Read more...]
Kashmir-Palestine: India and Israel Both Use Human Shields to Maintain Military Occupation
World media has been reporting the shocking story (to those who don't follow IDF tactics in the West Bank) of Indian army patrols tying a Kashmiri man to the grill of a military jeep and traveling through restive villages in order to humiliate and intimidate the Muslim residents. Kashmiris are outraged by this abuse and it crossed a red line for many who'd … [Read more...]