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Avrum Burg to Found New Israeli Political Party: Shivyon Yisrael
July 23, 2010Today’s Haaretz brings the interesting news that Israeli iconoclast, Avrum Burg is founding a new political party to be called Shivyon Israel (Equality Israel). It will represent one of the few attempts by a mainstream political leader to form a post-Zionist party. Here is Burg on its platform: The time has come for an Israeli [...]
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Tablet: Weiss, Walt, Sullivan, Greenwald Agents of Anti-Israel Influence, Why Not Me?
July 22, 2010I’m pissed. Royally so. If Phil Weiss, Stephen Walt, Glenn Greenwald, Jim Lobe and a whole host of others can be smeared by Tabloid (er, Tablet) Magazine as anti-Israel agents of influence, why was I left out? Does it mean I’m not important enough? Or not anti-Israel enough? Or not eloquent enough? This post is [...]
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Israeli Supreme Court Justice: Never in My Life Saw Case in Which State Refused to Produce Suspect in Court
July 22, 2010Israeli Supreme Court Justice Edmond Levy has a very selective memory (Hebrew). Only when he faces the case of suspected settler terrorist Chaim Pearlman, who has been denied access to counsel by the Shin Bet and was a no-show in court, does he say: “Never in my life have I seen such behavior.” Apparently, he’s [...]
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Israeli Activist Interrogated for Hurting Shin Bets Feelings
July 20, 2010Israeli peace activist, Yonatan Shapira has been a busy guy lately. Recently returned from Warsaw, where he spray-painted one of the last remaining vestiges of the Holocaust-era ghetto wall with the slogan: “No more ghettos,” protesting the Gaza siege, Shapira has also been regular protestor at the Bilin anti-Wall (“something there is that does not [...]
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Join Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney, Stand With Israel!
July 16, 2010As I wrote a few days ago, the Republican/neocon pro-Israel advocacy groups are sprouting like mushrooms after a spring rain. Not to be outdone, Bill Kristol (responsible for many of the mushrooms either directly or indirectly) has joined with Liz Cheney’s Keep America Safe to start a Stand With Israel petition on her site. Before [...]
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Landau Advocates Boycotting Knesset
July 16, 2010David Landau tends to be a bit of a prima dona as he proved when he urged at a private dinner that the U.S. “rape” Israel by imposing a peace settlement on it against its wishes. That little bit of grandstanding helped cost him his job as editor of Haaretz. But despite or perhaps because [...]
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Jewish Terrorist, Charged With Multiple Palestinian Murders, Outs Chief of Shin Bets Jewish Terror Department
July 16, 2010The Israeli police have arrested an alleged key Jewish settler terrorist, Chaim Pearlman, charging him with involvement in multiple murders and woundings of Palestinians going back as far as 12 years. As part of Pearlman’s counter-campaign to impugn the Shin Bet, he released transcripts of 20 hours of conversations with an agent of the Shin [...]
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Bibi the Bamboozler to Settlers: America Wont Get in Our WayIts Easily Moved
July 15, 2010Israel’s Channel 10 secured a video (Hebrew) recorded in 2001 during the height of a Palestinian terror campaign against Israel and the settlements. It records a condolence call Bibi Netanyahu, recently “retired” from politics after losing the prime ministership and leaving the Sharon government (where he had been Finance Minister), pays on a group of [...]
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18 Israeli Families Control 60% of Nations Corporate Equity
July 14, 2010Israeli economist Shir Hever, a researcher for the Alternative Information Center, was recently interviewed by RealNews TV about the relationship between economic issues and social control in Israel. One astonishing fact he noted was that 18 Israeli families control fully 60% of the equity value of all Israeli companies. Their wealth is concentrated in the [...]
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Knesset Strips Palestinian MK of Parliamentary Privileges
July 14, 2010Every day seems to bring yet a new outrage against free speech and democratic rights in Israel. Yesterday, the Israeli police manhandled the director of Women of the Wall, wrested a sacred Torah scroll from her hands, and hauled her off to jail–all for praying. Today, it only took 34 of the 120 member of [...]
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Anat Hoffmans Women of the Wall Arrested as Police Wrest Torah from Her Arms
July 13, 2010Another day of shame for an Israeli religious establishment and its police lackeys who violently wrested a sacred Torah scroll from the arms of a praying Jewish woman, all because she had the temerity to demand that Jewish women be entitled to worship equally with men at one of Judaism’s holiest sites. Anat Hoffman, director [...]
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Women of the Walls Anat Hoffman Arrested as Police Wrest Torah from Her Arms
July 13, 2010Another day of shame for an Israeli religious establishment and its police lackeys who violently wrested a sacred Torah scroll from the arms of a praying Jewish woman, all because she had the temerity to demand that Jewish women be entitled to worship equally with men at one of Judaism’s holiest sites. Anat Hoffman, director [...]
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Jewish Neocons Gear Up for Midterm ElectionsLet the Good Smears Roll
July 13, 2010It’s not just Israel that refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. American Jewish neocons have been proliferating so many hysterically-Islamophobic campaign outfits in the run-up to the midterm elections, you can’t tell the players without a scorecard. There is of course the granddaddy/zaideh of smearmesiters, the Republican Jewish Coalition. In the 2008 election, the [...]