This week, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas traveled to Germany, where he held a press conference with German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz. During the event, he was asked a Gotcha question: Asked whether as Palestinian leader he planned to apologize to Israel and Germany for the attack ahead of the 50th anniversary, Abbas responded instead by […]
Jews, Zionists and Terror: a History Terror used by ancient Jews and modern Israelis to enforce heterodoxy among Jews and dominance against Palestinians
This is yet another in my series of posts about terrorism in Israel, both the latest attacks, and the Israeli oppression and terror which incite Palestinian counter-violence. Yesterday’s post recounted the particularly heinous murder of a Palestinian widow and mother of six gunned down at a West Bank checkpoint. The hasbara brigade has gone into […]
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 […]
Tantura and the Israeli “Conspiracy of Silence” An Israeli Nakba massacre in 1948 aroused a conspiracy of silence which destroyed the career of an Israeli graduate student
Before 1948, Tantura was a Palestinian coastal fishing village of 1,500 residents located just north of the Israeli town of Zichron Yaakov. As war threatened and conditions worsened for Palestinian residents, the wealthier fled to Haifa. About 1,200 remained to tend to their farmland. Because Tantura was located along the coastal highway connecting Tel Aviv […]
