OUTRAGEOUS! America shackles an ally: why?
Sometimes friends express what you are thinking and Forest Rain Marcia is one of these. With her permission, I am sharing her Facebook post with you here. You can see more of her writing...
Category: Current Events
Fateful days: the same Netanyahu, the same security system – they don’t think long term
Senior diplomatic correspondent Ariel Kahana gave me permission to translate into English an article I think everyone should read and contemplate. The original Hebrew is here. We have experience dealing with deals from Shalit’s...
He implied I couldn’t go home to Haifa when I return to Israel
A Canadian friend shared a videoclip with me. I was horrified to discover that while I was visiting family in Europe, residents of Haifa (where I live) and Tel Aviv were being evacuated. I...
Starving in Gaza like this girl?
There are photos making the rounds in the social media trying to demonstrate how Israel is deliberately starving the Gazan population. The first thing I do is try to determine if they are really...
Prof. Shalhoub-Kevorkian: “They [Jews] should be afraid because criminals are always afraid.”
While Jewish organizations are fighting for the safety of Jewish students on American campuses, Jerusalem’s Hebrew University reinstates Arab-Israeli professor who openly wants Jewish students to be frightened. Almost all of the material published...
Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian: When affirmative action backfires
Other than affirmative action or reverse discrimination, it seems there can be no other explanation for how Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian kept getting promoted at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I will outline why I think...
Nurit Peled-Elhanan: Is what she said okay?
Israel must look long and hard at what we consider legitimate and legal speech protected by laws ensuring freedom of expression versus speech that crosses the line into incitement and sedition. * * *...
What took so long?
In a one-minute clip, we can see evidence of what finally brought the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to suspend her (on 12 March) from her teaching post. Suspend, not fire. And I say FINALLY...
