American Jews — Galloping to the Polling Stations in Israel?
American Jews, you have the right to your opinions. But you do not have the right to tell Israel what to do. That right would only be yours were you to move here and...
Israel Diaries Blog
Minority Community Recognition — Long Overdue!
I just got this Press Release in my email inbox. It is unfortunate that the initiative for a law cementing our relationship with minority communities among us who share our destiny had to come...
Ghetto Walls In Haifa And THAT Wall!
An Arab academic originally from Haifa and now living in the USA refers to Wadi Nisnas as a ghetto in a paper published in the recent special issue of the International Journal of American...
Ouch! The Nation-State Law and the Druze
What do you do when you love your country and feel so woven into its fabric and then the threads begin to unravel? Sitting before Safwan Mreeh in a new coffee shop in Daliyat-el-Carmel,...
How an Israeli Professor Accuses Israel of Judaizing Israel
I think some people are quite thrilled that there are Jewish vandals who can be trotted out for display when they want to demonize the Jews. How else to explain the fact that, in...
The All New Annotated Israeli Declaration of Independence
In the hullabaloo over the new Nation-State Law (see here, here and here), some people say the new Basic Law should have repeated certain parts of what is in the Declaration of Independence. I...
National Law Hysteria: An Opportunity We Dare Not Miss
While the histrionics of Arab parliamentarians in the Knesset did not move me, I was taken aback by the fierce emotional outcry by members of the Israeli Druze community to the passing of the...
Why The World Is Stuck On The Two-State-Solution
Asher Susser is a very impressive man. Now professor emeritus of Middle East history at Tel Aviv University, I took an online course from him called The Emergence of the Modern Middle East. I...
