05/14 Links Pt1: BTS Report Isn't Journalism It's Propaganda; Palestinians'...
From Ian:Khaled Abu Toameh: Palestinians' Anti-Peace CampaignPalestinian activists on May 11 broke up a conference in east Jerusalem where Israelis and Palestinians met to discuss the two-state...
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Stop foreign subversion of the Jewish state! (Vic Rosenthal)
Vic Rosenthal's weekly column:Are Israelis paranoid? Much of the world is out to get us, and I’m not talking about the Arabs.In his travels about Israel and the Palestinian Authority, Tuvia Tenenbom...
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Real Breaking the Silence 4: Matan Katzman
From Facebook:I'm breaking the silence. Here is my report, continuing an important initiative under the Hashtag #האמת_שלי (Hebrew for #My_Truth). **Beit Hanoun, the Gaza Strip, 2006. Operation...
View Article05/14 Links Pt2: Anti-Semitism in a liberal disguise; Should American Jews...
From Ian:How Israeli ‘Human Rights’ Groups Threaten Our Very ExistenceIm Tirtzu has issued a number of position papers to counter the narratives slandering Israel, including: Nakba Nonsense, which...
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Turkey's foreign trade with Israel keeps growing as its trade with Arab...
From Foreign Affairs:Hardly a week goes by without some barb or insult traded between Turkey and Israel. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan publicly slights Israel on an almost daily basis to drum...
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"Nakba survivor" admits she fled without seeing a single Jew
Every year, on "Nakba Day," Arab newspapers scramble to find old people who can act as eyewitnesses to the horrors of how Israel treated their people who would become to be known years later as...
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Another liar about the "nakba" - in Slate
Saleem Haddad writes in Slate:My grandmother remembers clearly the night her family left. They were woken up in the middle of the night by loud banging on the front door. My grandmother’s cousins, who...
View Article05/15 Links Pt1: Glick: Israel’s peace fantasists in action; The Vatican...
From Ian:Caroline Glick: Israel’s peace fantasists in action For more than 20 years, Israel’s policy-making community has been intellectually ensnared by the notion of peace. As a consequence, the...
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UNRWA's anti-Israel social media campaign
Today, UNRWA started a new hashtag campaign called #JustSolution, with an accompanying webpage.The use of the word "just" is no accident. It means that unless Israel allows itself to be flooded with...
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Zippy Porath's letters to her American family from besieged Jerusalem, May...
Zipporah Porath arrived in Mandatory Palestine in Oct. 1947, as an American student, for what was intended to be a year of study at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. But, caught up inIsrael's War...
View Article05/15 Links Pt2: Honig: A Delegitimization Called Nakba; Five Reasons to...
From Ian:Sarah Honig: A Delegitimization Called NakbaWhereas we celebrate our state’s Independence Day according to the Hebrew calendar, the Gregorian anniversary, May 15, is annually commemorated by...
View Article05/16 Links: Pope calls Abbas ‘angel of peace’; Jerusalem then and now: A...
From Ian:Ben-Dror Yemini: The folly of the international community on the PalestiniansPushing both sides into a forced settlement will lead to disaster, and a Hamas takeover in the West Bank; meanhile,...
View ArticlePalestinian girl shot in the head. Call the NGOs! Oh, wait...
From Ma'an:A Palestinian girl was killed Saturday evening after she was accidentally hit by gunfire during wedding celebrations in Balata refugee camp east of Nablus.Local sources said that Ilaa...
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How to manipulate photos to tell an anti-Israel story (update)
From Ma'an:Amateur photographer Ahmad Nazzal captured Israeli forces spraying 'skunk water' at a Palestinian child during the Kafr Qaddum weekly march in the occupied West Bank on Friday.Five-year-old...
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Nah, this photo isn't staged at all (update)
A Palestinian woman looks from a window of her house in the Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on Thursday ahead of the commemorations for the 67th anniversary of the “Nakba” (Mohammed Abed/AFP)I'm...
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A Surprise Encounter of a Palestinian Kind (Mike Lumish)
So, there we were in the middle-of-nowhere Tennessee, right on the border of Alabama, just about a week ago. It was nothing but trees and lakes and dilapidated barns and bar-b-que joints. I was there...
View Article05/17 Links: Breaking the Silence about EU-NGO War on Israel; Jerusalem:...
From Ian:Breaking the Silence about EU-backed NGO War on IsraelThe truth about Europe is that while anti-Semitism went underground there for a period of time, it never really disappeared, and it is now...
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A photo of the real Jerusalem
Matti Friedman has an excellent essay at Tablet about Jerusalem, with eye-catching photos.This photo detail, of a Jewish saleswoman helping a Muslim woman apply eye makeup, says more about the real...
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Traveling, reading open thread
I'm going on a business trip to Florida, so blogging may be a little sporadic this week.I will say that I am reading Tuvia Tenenbom's Catch the Jew, and so far it is fantastic. While no one of any...
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