May, 2011

May 21, 2011

Masked Palestinian gunmen shoot dead man from Nablus suspected of spying for Israel

From the Jerusalem Post: Masked Palestinians shot dead Omar Helwan, 32, from a village near Nablus, ...

May 21, 2011

Golan Druze perspectives on Syrian uprisings

This essay was written by Hadar Sela and published in The Propagandist The recent news that conflict...

May 20, 2011

Israel’s Prime Minister speaks truth to power

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May 20, 2011

Israel and Western Guilt

This is cross posted by Aryeh Tepper at Jewish Ideas Daily. “Confront Your Privilege.”...

May 20, 2011

The Guardian: The Palestinians taught the Arab world how to mount intifadas

In another glaring example of the Guardian’s capacity to romanticize and glorify the use of vi...

May 20, 2011

The BDS contagion spreads to ULU

We hear from Daphne Anson’s blog that the BDS contagion has spread to Europe’s largest s...

May 19, 2011

The Facebook Wall of a “Peace Activist”

Just to reiterate, the murder of Vittorio Arrigoni at the hands of an al-Qaida affiliated group was ...

May 19, 2011

Crossing Borders – The Guardian, Karma Nabulsi and Amnesty International

The six foot-something high wire fence marking the international border between Israel and Syria nea...

May 19, 2011

In defense of Geoffrey Alderman

Geoffrey Alderman’s essay in The JC, This was no peace activist, which opined that the death o...

May 19, 2011

Nakba is in the eye of the beholder

While we work on a formal reply to Karma Nabulsi’s piece in CiF today, “Nakba Day: we wa...