One thing even die-hard secularists often admire about Orthodox Jewish weddings,is the joyous singing and dancing that goes on. So one hardly knows how to react to this article about a new phenomenon in Israel: Young Orthodox Jewish youth singing songs of bloody vengeance against the Arabs and even dancing to these tunes while waving [...]
In this second part of my series on the “logic” of occupation, I discuss Jew’s overuse of the term “anti-semite,” in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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I recently had the honor of being on a speaking panel with Ghassan Andoni, professor of physics at Birzeit University. Professor Andoni is a key Palestinian leader of the non-violent resistance movement in Palestine, and a co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement. Andoni spoke about the “logic” of occupation in an insightful and extremely coherent [...]
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Yossi Klein Halevi is one of those “compassionate” conservative commentators (triple-Cs) that have proliferated over the past few years. Wolves in sheep’s clothing, so to speak. They use the language of the progressive, stressing their committment to humanistic values. Scratch the surface just a bit and you find the same old, same old.
In this [...]
Continue reading about Feature: Introspection as a Prerequisite for Peace
First the news, from Friday’s Haaretz:
“IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Ya’alon’s controversial remarks earlier this week were ‘true and correct’ and described ‘the situation as it is,’ Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday.”
“Ya’alon, both at a conference organized by the chief rabbis on Sunday and in an interview with Ha’aretz Magazine, described the Palestinian threat [...]