Between Dome of the Rock and a Hard Place
The Freedom Flotilla has inspired some rabid and quite insane responses from my countrypeople and co-religionists. The following videos/articles don’t need a lot of extra commentary. I just wanted to put together some examples of the type of reactions one sees coming out of Israel and the Jewish community. This is, in my view, the [...]
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Why can’t all Palestinians just speak Hebrew, sing the Israeli national anthem about their Jewish souls, and make us their delicious hummus and “Israeli” salad? Must they always aggravate us by, you know, speaking Arabic? The ink was drying on Gideon Levy’s most recent piece about how Israelis would really like it if all Arabs [...]
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Still haven’t booked that Spring Break 2010 ticket? Allow to me to suggest something, a trip with mystique, exotic lands, spicy foods, incomprehensible languages, dark-haired beauties, and the smallest tinge of danger just to add that extra element to the trip. Am I talking about India, Cuba, Thailand, Turkey, or Nicaragua? Nope, I am talking [...]
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“They sat [the child] down and put his hand on the chair and simply broke it right there on the chair,” recounted a female IDF soldier. The blogosphere is burning today with the recently published accounts of female soldiers in the IDF, who are expected to compensate for their relative physical weakness with extraordinary violence [...]
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One terrible consequence of Israeli (and Western) racism toward Arabs is that a number of what should be unnecessary defenses of Arab behavior must be made. I don’t want to be in the position of defending Hamas, for example, and yet the absurd caricature of that complex organization must be countered. Ditto on the recent [...]
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Where to begin? Regular readers of this blog will undoubtedly know about the severe problem of Israeli racism against Arabs in general and Palestinians in particular. But this story leaves even me incredulous. After Ali Abunimah posted a wonderfully sarcastic comment to his Twitter feed (@avinunu) about how much settlers love to hear about the [...]
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File this under profiles in Israeli racism, part 279. The Israeli women’s organization, Women to Women, published a report in December 2008 about the widespread use of Depo Provera in the Ethiopian community. Ethiopians comprise just two percent of Israel’s population, yet account for 57% of users of the birth control drug. According to the [...]
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Apartheid is finally get the attention is deserves. Joining the longstanding arguments posed by Palestinians, prominent Jews (e.g. retired Judge Boaz Okon) and Israeli politicians (e.g. former PM Olmert) have begun to use the term to describe the system of institutionalized discrimination that exists in Israel/Palestine. This is a welcome development in the battle for [...]
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Imagine if the US caught wind of a poll being run in, say, Yemen by that country’s biggest news network, their equivalent of a CNN or MSNBC. The poll asks the following question: “Given the recent attempted terrorist attack on the US and the United States’ threatening statements in response, what do you think is [...]
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Prejudice against Muslims is one of the few remaining “legitimate” forms of racism in the sense it is widely accepted in public in the western world. To cite just one example, GOP Congresspeople can call for all Muslim visa holders in the US to be deported without even sparking a substantive conversation on the racism [...]
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