Amnesty International today released a statement seeking an international arms embargo against Israel due to the indiscriminate slaughter it is wreaking in Gaza. Photographs of today's protest at the Great March of Return reminded me of the portrayal of the Final Days in the battle between Darkness and Light. Smoke from burning tires, waving Palestinian … [Read more...]
Shurat HaDin Files ICC Claim: Hamas Responsible for IDF Murders in Gaza
Usually, after writing a post I won't come back to the same story unless it's quite compelling and newsworthy. But I make an exception in the case of the legal nitwits who run Shurat HaDin, who I profiled yesterday when they lost a major U.S. Supreme Court decision. That ruling overturned a $700-million judgment by a lower court against the Arab Bank. I … [Read more...]
Palestine: Welcome to My Bantustan
There was an old Alice Cooper album called, Welcome to My Nightmare. I thought of that when I titled this post. Last week, Saeb Erekat published a long report recounting the contents of the Trump "deal of the century," his Israel-Palestine peace plan. The New Arab published the Arabic-language original and an English summary of the plan. For some strange … [Read more...]
UCLA: Adam Milstein’s Pro-Israel Student Mentor Network and BDS Obsession
A portion of this post deals with UCLA Hillel. Before I launched into the post, I wanted to juxtapose my own experience as a graduate student at this Hillel back in the 1970s with today's reality. Then, I was pursuing an MA in Comparative Literature. The campus Hillel, led by Rabbis David Berner and Chaim Seidler-Feller, was my Jewish home. Each week, … [Read more...]
