Israel’s Supreme Court, in past decades known for upholding human rights, but lately known for upholding Israeli ethnic cleansing and the racist Nation State law, proposed a truly Solomonic solution in the Sheikh Jarrah eviction case. Remember the Biblical account of two mothers who claimed the same newborn child. Solomon’s proposal to them was to […]
Netanyahu’s Hidden Hand Hovers Over Al Aqsa Pogrom
The past two nights have witnessed scenes of horrific violence with Israeli Border Police thugs assaulting Al Aqsa, the third holiest site in Islam. They threw stun grenades, ransacked the sacred sanctum, and fired rubber bullets indiscriminately. Nearly 300 worshippers have been injured, many seriously. Israel claims that police only responded when Palestinians threw rocks […]
Conflating Judaism and Zionism: Bad for the Jews
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My Brush with JDL Bombers: Murderers of Palestinian-American Activist Live Freely in Israel
הרוצחים בינינו: ברוך בן יוסף וישראל פוקס, שני החשודים ברצח הפעיל הפלסטיני-אמריקני אלכס עודה, חיים בגלוי בישראל Today, I read an article that brought up very bad, sad memories for me. In 1986, I had just left a PhD program at UC Berkeley to work for one of the first grassroots national Jewish progressive organizations, […]
