Yesterday, we sent Facebook, YT, and others accounts belonging to the Taliban spokesman. We asked for comment, and they responded by removing them. Today, the Taliban spokesman is complaining of censorship. Story coming soon on this… — Sheera Frenkel (@sheeraf) August 17, 2021 Earlier today, NY Times technology reporter, Sheera Frenkel, tweeted that she had […]
Zionism and the Exploitation of Jewish Catastrophe
Though I have always had sympathy for the general goals of creating a Jewish homeland for victims of persecution and genocide, I am critical of the ways in which Zionism pursued that objective. From the very beginning, even in Herzl’s writings, there are the seeds of ethnic-nationalism, racism and even anti-Semitism, which permeate Israel […]
American Muslims to Saudis, American Jews to Israel: Why Do You Hate Us?
NOTE: I’ve just published a new piece at Middle East Eye, Israel elections: The vultures are circling Netanyahu. Read who’s up, who’s down, will Bibi survive, does any of it matter? Give it a read and please promote it via social media and e-mail. Saudi Arabia’s curious response to the extraordinary feat of electing the first […]
Loving Israel, Hating Jews
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 […]
