Elia Dakwar, Israeli Christian Critiques Israeli Hasbara
Israeli Hasbara is lacking in one thing: courage, courage, courage — the courage to pick up the gauntlet and to begin some real research. I am an Israeli citizen. I was born here. And...
Israel Diaries Blog
This is who we Israelis are. Think whatever you want, but this is us.
I cannot count how many times I have been told that Israel teaches its children to hate Arabs. And then the area that has seen more missiles, whether propelled by fuel or by wind,...
How Is Israel Like Avis Rent-A-Car?
What have Israel and Avis car rentals got in common? Watch this video and see if you get the association that came to me: In 1962, Avis was losing money to top ranking car...
Kaddish? Confessions of a Jew who is not sad Hamasniks are dead
I do not mourn the Gazans killed since they began their Great Return March about six weeks ago. If that makes me cold-hearted and a bad person so be it. With every Facebook post...
Terrorism Tourism (Or: What to do near Gaza on a Friday morning.)
“You aren’t really going there, are you?” asked one friend when she heard that I was planning on driving down toward Gaza yesterday morning (11 May 2018) to see for myself what was going...
Reuters almost got it right about Gaza this time
From the title and through the reporting, this is the closest I have seen a major news outlet actually put together a balanced article even tangentially related to Israel in a long time. Anger...
This is what the New York Times should be doing!
The New York Times (NYT) and other major papers could benefit readers by taking an example from the British medical journal, The Lancet. Let us look at the difference between the way the NYT...
Fadi is Marching in Gaza for His Kids
The New York Times gave space to Fadi Abu Shammalah. He wrote an opinion piece called, Why I March in Gaza. First of all, let us look at who Abu Shammalah is: executive director...
