Many years ago, I was researching the history of political assassinations within the Zionist movement for an essay which the London Review of Books commissioned (and then refused to publish). One of the intriguing murders was that of Chaim Arlosoroff in Tel Aviv in 1933. But it wasn’t just the circumstances of his killing and […]
Israeli Prime Minister’s Son Claims Israeli Murder Victim Raped, Decapitated by Palestinian
חסכנות גנטית: גם מפר איסור פרסום, גם מפיץ פייק ניוז, גם מכאיב למשפחה וגם מנסה לעשות הון פוליטי על הדם. הכל בעלות של ציוץ אחד! pic.twitter.com/XzxNM62gPS — Ben Caspit בן כספית (@BenCaspit) February 9, 2019 UPDATE: Aftet this post was published, Haaretz reported the the victim’s body was discovered naked and she had been sexually […]
Boycotts Have an Honored Status in Jewish History
There’s a supreme irony in Israel’s current all-out war on BDS. A boycott played a critical part in one critical episode in modern Jewish history. In 1933, American Jewish leaders organized an international boycott of Germany. The campaign was extremely effective. Over five years, German trade declined dramatically and its economic recovery was impaired. In […]
Israel Privileges Jews, But Only the “Right” Jews
From the first moment Zionists discovered another people lived in Palestine, the Zionist movement has faced a fatal dilemma. Because Zionism declares that it is the national movement of self-determination of the Jewish people. There is no provision in Zionism for another people existing in the land of Israel. Thus, from its inception Zionism deprecated […]
