I haven’t seen NAZA. I mention this up front because it seems to be the one thing I have in common with nearly everyone in Israel who is currently furious about it. The film hasn’t...
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Macklemore Sells Golf Pants. We Made Him a Martyr.
Macklemore said two words at the MetLife stadium and lost a tour. Yuval Abraham won a prize in Venice for NAZA and a minister came for his citizenship. I am a Zionist and I am asking my own people to...
What is Actually Going on in Qusra?
It’s the end of August. Chofesh hagadol is over, thank God, and tomorrow morning the kids go back to school. In Jerusalem that means moving season is at its peak, because nobody switches...
Mamdani’s Selective War Criminals
Zohran Mamdani spent basically his entire mayoral campaign promising he would personally arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if the man dared set foot in New York City. Not “I support the ICC.” Not...
Choreography, Not Courage: Rahm Emanuel in Tel Aviv
Rahm Emanuel gave a speech in Tel Aviv yesterday. OK. Cool, right? I met his niece, Rebekah Emanuel in Jerusalem in 2012 at one of those 2-day conferences that the city’s tourist infrastructure...
Is Israel Losing America? Thanks Bibi.
How Netanyahu’s survival instinct, his embrace of the hard right, and twenty years of partisan choices have destroyed the bipartisan consensus that kept Israel safe, empowered Antisemites on...
And Why Shouldn’t The White House Do Israel’s Dry Cleaning?
There was minor snickering this week, during the DAYS OF AWE (DAYS OF CHUTZ-PAW), when THE WASHINGTON POST reported that Israeli Prime minister Netanyahu and his spouse had a habit of bringing...
Bibi Love?
Keren Hayesod Street is one of the main arteries of West Jerusalem, connecting tony, residential Emek Refaim with Jerusalem’s downtown core and King George street. Folks wandering up or down...