Israel has once again passed another milestone in corruption. For the first time, the president has tasked a party leader to form a government who is currently on trial facing criminal charges. Conviction would not only end his political career, but land him in prison. Yesterday, Pres. Rivlin faced the choice of awarding either Bibi […]
Roseanne Barr, Who Ridiculed Holocaust, Headlines Israeli Anti-BDS Conference
Ex-Hollywood TV star Roseanne Barr, who’s undergone a conversion from being a rabid anti-Zionist to an Arab-hating Israel supporter will perform at an Israeli anti-BDS conference in March. She’s been invited to Israel by the Israel advocacy group, StandWithUs (SWU), for whom she’s headlining a fundraising gala at Temple Bnai Abraham in Oakland, CA on February 27th. During […]
Netanyahu’s New Public Relations Flack: Rivlin Isn’t Even Worth Killing
I don’t usually get too involved in the appointment of lower level Israeli government officials, but this one was too good to pass up. It brings me great sorrow to inform you of the untimely passing of Mark Regev as Bibi’s chief spokes-flack. Regev, consummate media propagandist that he is, is moving on to that […]
Israeli Election Post-Mortem: Rearranging the Deck Chairs
I use the term “post-mortem” deliberately, because the results of Israel’s election have been a sort of death for many Diaspora Jews and even Israelis who hoped finally to be rid of Bibi Netanyahu. There is a sense that Bibi, with his last minute racist pyrotechnics in effect stole the election, or at least manipulated […]
