Kurds Mulling Rebranding As ‘Palestine’ To Gain International Recognition

A recent Pew poll found that 67% of Kurds agreed with the statement that “being whiny and nagging about Jews will get you recognition faster...

We went to the West Bank looking for drugs. You won’t believe what we found!

Edge sent Nick Moss to the West Bank to see how the Israeli occupation has affected the Palestinian people’s ability to get high. What he...

Israeli? You are a Nazi!

Guest Post by Bracha Arnold Traveling as a Canadian Israeli is interesting. You can always get away with just saying you’re Canadian and not getting...

Israel’s Knesset Should Hold a Symbolic Vote on Scottish Independence from the UK

Some British MPs think they should interfere in the business of another democracy, perhaps they should focus on theirs instead?

Noble Arabs, Con-Men Jews Score Oscar Nods

I am voting for Nebraska (which was mostly filmed in Montana). Films depicting noble Arabs in the Middle East and Jews acting as con artists...

Jewish Voices For Stupidity

I woke up this morning and received a breathless email from Cecilie Surasky, the Deputy Director of “Jewish Voices for Peace.” The email gleefully announced...

Beware the IDF AIDS Fairies!

There you are, sleeping peacefully in your bed. Perhaps you are dreaming about grazing sheep on a grassy knoll, or harvesting olives on a sunny...

Zombie Yasser Arafat Father of Palestinian Statehood?

That’s what Suha Arafat, Yasser Arafat’s widow implied when she stated that there was a spiritual significance in the timing of her late husband’s exhumation,...

6 Major Falsehoods About the UN Vote for Palestine

It’s not my beat to write about politics. I usually leave that to The Middle and CK. But I can’t help but put down some...

Why Palestinian Statehood Will Almost Certainly Fail

Palestinian Statehood will likely fail at Security Council, Sarkozy calls Netanyahu a liar, Israel Supreme Court orders demolition of illegal settlements angering right wing, Former...

Home! Flytilla Fizzles

I spent the bulk of last week in Kiev at the 2nd annual Muslim Jewish Conference. I was initially concerned that the impending launch of...

History lesson about Yishuv in Palestine from Bashar Assad’s grandfather

Through some sort of maze of websites that I can’t recall right now, I recently arrived at a NY Review of Books article about modern...

Why Is Britain’s Prime Minister Pulling Out of JNF? And Will There Be A Palestinian State This Year?

Helen Thomas Bares All in Playboy

Helen Thomas bares it all in the April 2011 US edition of Playboy Magazine. And by “ALL,” I don’t mean her naked skin, I mean...

J Street Sides with the Palestinians

Here’s a short little story about J Street – the supposedly “pro-Israel” advocacy group that supposedly supports Israel, even if their student group can’t bring...