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Israeli Rightists Blame New Israel Fund for War Crimes Charges Against Israeli Leaders
February 2, 2010The incitement against the New Israel Fund just keeps coming. Today, right-wing Im Tirzu activists demonstrated at the annual Hertzeliya conference (Israel’s equivalent of Davos). They featured a prison cell with cut out figures of Tzipi Livni, Ehud Barak and Gabi Ashkenazi in striped prisoner uniforms. The placard above them read: “New Israel Fund prisoners.” [...]
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Israeli Rightists Warn IDF Soldiers of Prison Time Thanks to New Israel Fund
February 2, 2010Some interesting developments today regarding the Im Tirtzu assault on the New Israel Fund. Both Israeli and American Jewish peace groups came out swinging today in this article in the Jerusalem Post. I’
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Apparently Israel has too many world class figure skaters
January 31, 2010The NY Times gives us the absurd story of an Israel figure skater who qualified for the Olympics, but did not qualify to make the Israeli Olympic team. Tamar Katz, the three-time national champion, met the International Skating Union’
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Wishing On a Satellite
January 30, 2010Israel will be investing hundreds of millions in the development of small satellites that can be launched from an airplane, enabling the Israel Air Force and Intelligence Corps the ability to gather information on specific targets on short notice. Senior sources in the air force said that they have been working for a year or [...]
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English Pro-Israel Cyberbullying Alive and Well
January 27, 2010Sometimes we think the Israel blogging flame wars are confined to the U.S. or perhaps Israel. But it’s happening in the UK as well. Stephen Sizer is an Anglican vicar who writes a blog and lectures about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His particular speciality is critiquing the Christian Zionist movement and warning of its dangers for [...]
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MOMORight Israel: Inside Scoop
January 26, 2010Boarding the E-train en route to my most recent international reporting endeavor, I wasn’t sure what exactly to expect. I was about to tag along with 40-some-odd American peers who were visiting Israel for the first time, not through the auspices of Taglit-Birthright Israel, but under the newly independent wing of Oranim Educational Initiatives. I was [...]
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Making Heroes
January 26, 2010With the world in awe of the Israeli response to the tragedy in Haiti, much energy has focused on the reason that Israel is good at this kind of disaster relief. Yes it is true that Israel deals with these traumatic crisis on a regular basis. But experience alone cannot simply account for excellence. It [...]
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Survey: should we engage in war crimes?
January 9, 2010Israel demanded recently that the US will act to stop “incitement by Palestinian Authority’s officials”. A noble cause no doubt, but what about racism and incitement in Israel? For example, what would we say if a poll by Iranian or Palestinian television station presented the public with the option of completely destroying Israel? Because this [...]
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Liberman’s “loyalty law”: an effort to push Arabs out of the Knesset
January 3, 2010The Knesset’s ministerial legislative committee is about to vote today on Israel Beitenu’s (Avigdor Liberman’s party) “loyalty law”, which will change the oath all MK’s take at the beginning of each Knesset term, from swearing loyalty to “the State of Israel and its laws,” to swearing loyalty to the State of Israel as a “Jewish [...]