May, 2012

May 19, 2012

The BBC and the Jews

This essay was written by Walter Russell Mead, at ‘The American Interest‘ [youtube=htt...

May 19, 2012

Video: The secret of Israel’s success

The following 40 minutes will be time well spent. The film “Israel Inside: How a Small Nation ...

May 18, 2012

Postcard from Israel – Hanata

As Israel’s short spring comes to an end and the winter rains become memories, the landscape c...

May 18, 2012

Political loyalty & its discontents: A thoughtful CiF reader examines a vexing dilemma

Occasionally we come across a reader comment beneath the line of a ‘Comment is Free’ ess...

May 18, 2012

Leader of ‘Stop BDS at Park Slope Coop’ campaign (& CiF Watch reader) featured on Daily Show

I recently noticed the moniker of the following commenter, beneath the line of a CiF Watch post abou...

May 17, 2012

Nakba: The Catastrophe of Lost Opportunities

A guest post by Gidon Ben-Zvi, an Anglo-Israeli writer While Israel celebrated its 64th birthday, se...

May 17, 2012

‘Comment is Free’ cheeky reader comment of the day: On Sharon, babies and Semitic tendencies

H/T Margie There were over 300 comments beneath the line of Stuart Jeffries’ review of Sasha ...

May 17, 2012

Chair of Manchester Palestine Solidarity Campaign declares Israeli Hoopoe birds ‘Aves non gratae’.

Courtesy of the anti-racist website ‘Engage’, here’s a funny-but-true story to eas...

May 16, 2012

Harriet Sherwood’s Munich Massacre story follows Guardian rule on obscuring Palestinian terrorism

My post on March 23rd, 2011 – following a terrorist bombing in Jerusalem which killed one woma...

May 16, 2012

Guardian letters page publishes a diversity of opinion on why Israel is cruel & oppressive

This is cross posted from Anne’s Opinions In yesterday’s Guardian letters page (May 15) t...