Palestinians may be divided over the future, leadership, hummus shops, and politicians, but they appear to be united about a singer from Gaza, Mohammed Assaf, a son of Khan Younis who is leading the...
Tag - Gaza
The Smuggled KFC Story That Went Viral
How did a story of a person that delivers KFC fried chickens in Gaza – via border tunnels with the permission of Hamas – go viral worldwide last week? It was a small story and represents...
Are Israeli Textbooks Any Better Than Palestinian Ones?
Today, a report of a comprehensive comparison between Palestinian and Israeli textbooks was released in Jerusalem. For decades, the common wisdom among politicians has been that Palestinian...
National Geographic’s Whitewashing of Hamas and the Gaza Tunnels
One usually turns to National Geographic to look at the world and marvel at the planet. It covers issues critical to human and animal survival. I love National Geographic and so do my kids. So...
Responses to Some Dumb Stuff on Facebook
Guest post by Eden Banarie CK has been trying to get me to write for Jewlicious since, I don’t know, 2008. But I guess it took a perfect storm of conditions – coincidentally sleeping in a...
A Carefully Calibrated Attack
Cross posted from the New York Times Room for Debate where the question asked was How Can Targeted Killings Be Justified? Also participating in the debate were Law professor and author Alan...
Rocket Resistant High School, Courtesy of San Diego Philanthropists
Over 4000 rockets have been fired upon southern Israel since the withdrawal from Gaza in August 2005. One of the sectors hardest hit by these attacks has been the educational sector, where classes...
Latest Flotilla Intercepted by IDF. Yawn.
Last Friday, the IDF boarded two boats attempting to run Israel’s maritime blockade on Gaza. One boat was Canadian and the other Irish and they carried 27 pro-Palestinian activists, journalists...