Israelis (Kinda) Getting a Taste of Their Own Medicine.

Tel Aviv, like Jerusalem before it, is seeing some Israeli-on-Israeli tensions. Interestingly, it resembles a re-telling of the Palestinian experience.

Haredim, who practice a conservative form of Orthodox Judaism, are seeking to spread their ways in new areas around Tel Aviv, in predominately secular neighborhoods. And this is causing problems. The secular Jews resist the in-gathering of Haredim seeking to make their spiritual desert bloom. Tel Aviv for them is a city with no faithful for the faithful with no city (you get where I am going).

Does the LA Times Deliver in Washington, DC?

I know this is dated in internet time, but I finally got a chance to read Ben Ehrenreich’s brilliant oped in the Los Angeles Times, “Zionism is the Problem.” What! the! Fuck! He argues that there is a long-standing tradition of rejection of Zionism among Jews, that it corrodes the tradition of social justice in [...]

Nothing against Jews

“Assassins… Damn Israel… We don’t want Jews here…” A house of worship was desecrated in Caracas on Friday. Although details are still scarce, we know that up to 15 unidentified individuals forced their way into a synagogue at the Israeli Association of Venezuela; they proceeded to vandalize the place and write crude graffiti on the [...]

Book refuting Jewish taboo on Israel’s bestseller list

The latest from the great Jonathan Cook. Please visit his web site. http://www.jkcook.net No one is more surprised than Shlomo Sand that his latest academic work has spent 19 weeks on Israel’s bestseller list – and that success has come to the history professor despite his book challenging Israel’s biggest taboo. Dr Sand argues that [...]

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