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...
Tag - Settlements
‘Nuclear’ Bomb Satire
While people around the world are blinded by the mass media and their daily ‘news’ programs, there are true problems in the world. For a moment lets focus on that ‘minor...
An Archaeological Hannukah
Leave it to the colonialist Israel Antiquities Authority (the vaunted IAA) to continue to play a role in the formation and enactment of Israel’s colonial-national historical imagination by...
Large Sales for New Moon Kislev?
What is happening in America? Over $20 million in one day ticket sales for the New Moon of Kislev? Umm no. Sorry. I was misinformed. It turns out the hype and revenue are not for Kislev’s New...
The Palestinians Think They Are in the Endgame
Among the Jerusalem Post’s blog posts, there is one today by Ira Sharkansky, a Hebrew University Political Science professor, called “Why the Stalemate.” Sharkansky also posts at...
Settler Rabbi Endorses… Obama?
I know… not what you’d expect right? But here it is – Rabbi Menachem Frohman, one of the founders of the Zionist settler movement in Israel and the Chief Rabbi of the settlement of...
“We also offer Hebron in Both Israel and Palestine…”
Photo from Facebook group Facebook never dreamed it could become another battleground in the war of ideas, words, and politics that surround the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. When Facebook abruptly...