After former IDF Gen. Yair Golan failed to be named army chief of staff, he decided to enter politics, as almost all generals and spy chiefs do in Israel. A natonal security state raises all these figures on a gold pedestal. They tend to see their heroes as defenders of the state. The more Arabs […]
Jerusalem Day = Nuremberg Day Riots break out in Palestinian neighborhoods retaliating for today's hate-filled Israeli spectacle
NOTE: I did an interview with Jeremy Rothe-Kushel for his podcast. It was devoted to the murder of Shireen Abu Aqleh and the Yossi Cohen scandal. UPDATE: In the aftermath of the Jerusalem Day “festivities” throughout East Jerusalem, Palestinian have decided they’re “mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.” Mass violence […]
When Israeli Jews Defile Islam’s Third-Holiest Site, and Diaspora Jews Say Nothing Israeli Border Police desecrate Haram al Sharif with tear gas, stun grenades and flailing batons, binding and gagging, arresting and injuring nearly 1,000
UPDATE: Yesterday, Border Police once again stormed the Al Aqsa mosque and its defenders fought back to repel the desecrators of the holy shrine. One of them, 21-year-old Walid al Sharif, was shot in the head with a sponge-tipped bullet. Eyewitnesses and his family confirmed this. He was mortally wounded. Taken to Hadassah Hospital, he […]
Le Chambon: It Takes a Village…to Save Jews
Tonight, a small detour from my usual subjects. When I was a UCLA graduate student in 1978, I studied Yiddish with Prof. Janet Hadda. During that year, she asked the class if they would meet with a filmmaker who was planning a film on Yiddish in America. The director was Pierre Sauvage, a Franco-American documentary […]
