Sports Illustrated has its bikini issues featuring the hottest bods of 2011. We have our own feature: the Settlers of Sheikh Jarrah. This may become a regular feature if my friends in Solidarity can produce figures as colorful as today’s subject, Yaakov Fauci aka Yaakov Ish Tam and the Kalashnikover Rebbe. In a scene reminiscent […]
Return to Anatot, Pogrom Redux
In a few hours, the courageous activists of Sheikh Jarrah will return to Anatot (English here), the site of a horrific pogrom several weeks ago which involved a knife assault by a settler hooligan-resident, a sexual assault, and broken ribs and noses suffered by the protesters. I only wish I could join them myself. But if you are […]
Israeli Peace Activists Appeal to Supreme Court for Right to Return to Anatot
Those brave Israeli peace activists who protested twice at Anatot and got the stuffings knocked out of them for their trouble, have notified the police they intend to return to demonstrate yet again. They began by joining a Palestinian farmer whose access to his land is denied by residents of the Anatot settlement. When the […]
Meir Rotter, Radical Rightist Settler, Police Officer, Suppresses Israeli Palestinian Speech
I’ve written here before about the extremist pro-settler views of Israeli police officer, Meir Rotter, who has often been known to provoke fights with Sheikh Jarrah protesters. He is the son of Rabbi Rotter, who runs one of Israel’s most popular internet news portals, somewhat akin to the Drudge Report, if you can imagine Matt […]
