apartheid
Carter was, and is, “Good for the Jews”
Friday, April 25th, 2008
Before his controversial book used the “A-word” (apartheid), I never understood the reflexive, visceral hostility harbored for Jimmy Carter in the mainstream American Jewish community. He made a good many political mistakes early in his admnistration, using code words like “Palestinian homeland” and almost casually intimating that the U.S. and Israel should deal with the […]
Is Israel a settler colony like South Africa?: A guest column
Monday, March 31st, 2008This blog is fortunate to get regular contributions from Tom Mitchell, a scholar who has carefully analyzed the similarities and differences between Israel, South Africa and Northern Ireland. He sent me a summary of a longer article. I thought I would publish it, as people on the far left often claim that there is […]
Time to throw out the little blue JNF box?
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007My new friend Jerry Haber, “The Magnes Zionist” tipped me off to a shameful story about the Jewish National Fund and proposed Knesset legislation. Here is the Ha’aretz report:
Bill allocating JNF land to Jews only passes preliminary reading
By Yoav Stern and Shahar Ilan
The Knesset plenum approved a bill Wednesday, in its preliminary reading, […]
Checkpoints, the wall and an unexpected message
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007I think of Hannah often these days, now that I have begun to wade into the difficult task of conversing with the left on Israel. She is from Australia, in her late 50s, and has lived in Israel since the early ’70s. Hannah (not her real name) is one of the brave, tireless, […]
Near the Dead Sea, a canary in a coal mine
Thursday, May 10th, 2007There was a very disturbing, very sad story in Maariv yesterday. It describes a situation that is indefensable and ought to be condemned in the strongest possible terms:
(Translation courtesy of Israel News Today).
SEPARATE BATHING;
IDF BANS PALESTINIAN FROM DEAD SEA
by Felix Frisch
IDF soldiers in the Jordan Valley this week received an order […]