Gilad Erdan's ministry for strategic affairs has become a third intelligence branch (let's call it "the third eye") of the Israeli state alongside the Shin Bet and Mossad, It's brief is to fight an existential battle against the world-wide campaign to destroy Israel, aka "delegitimization." This primarily takes the form of a war to the death against BDS, a … [Read more...]
2017 Israeli Democracy Poll
I've reported in past years on the Israel Democracy Institute's annual poll on the health (or illness) of Israeli democracy. The results are usually quite dispiriting if you ever believed in such a concept. But they are always instructive. Given the IDI is a liberal Zionist organization intent on maintaining what little remains of Israeli democracy, many … [Read more...]
Bryan Singer Must Have the Busiest Lawyer in Hollywood
I don't usually write about Hollywood "affairs" unless they relate to Israel. But I am always intrigued by censorship and the cold, brutal hand of the censor, where they're in Israel or Hollywood. And tonight director Bryan Singer's lawyers are working overtime rooting out all online/media evidence of the latest charges against him involving molestation of … [Read more...]
Israel to Shutter Al Jazeera, Join Ranks of Arab Authoritarian Regimes Suppressing Press Freedom
NOTE: I just published a new piece at Middle East Eye on Israel's military intervention in the Libyan civil war. I hope you'll give it a read. As part of Bibi Netanyahu's ongoing campaign to turn Israel into an authoritarian regime like those of his fellow Sunni Arab strongmen, he declared last week he would close Al Jazeera's offices and end its … [Read more...]
