Category Archives: UncategorizedA few weeks ago, a story about a Palestinian man convicted by an Israeli court of raping a Jewish woman made headlines around the world. Sabbar Kashur, a 30 year-old resident of East Jerusalem, was convicted not of rape by physical force, but rather of rape by deception: according to the verdict, he presented himself [...]
Gone are the days, it seems, when the slogan was, “Visiting Israel? Come see the holy sites!” On Arutz 7, a right-wing news outlet that takes a pro-settler editorial stance, one of the banner ads that appears most frequently bears the slogan “Visiting Israel? Learn to shoot!” The click-through ads lead to the website of [...]
Sarit Hadad, an Israeli pop singer of Mizrachi extraction, just released a new single. The song, actually a cover of a Lebanse pop hit of the 1970s, is called “Do You Love Me” and it seems that the answer is, “Some of us do, but a lot of us really, really don’t.” For every fan [...]
Credit: Emil Salman The man in the choke-hold is Chaim Levinson, Haaretz’s correspondent for issues related to West Bank Jewish settlements. Soldiers assaulted him and confiscated his mobile phone on August 10, while he was covering a march of right-wing activists on their way to establish another illegal outpost at the site of an ancient [...]
The following is my translation of a piece that was published yesterday on Walla!, a popular Israeli news and information site. Auspicious appointments By Emily Grunzweig 22 July 2010 The Office of the Civil Service issued an external tender for the position of director of the Government Press Office (GPO). Danny Seaman, who has been [...]
According to the Israeli government, life in Gaza is pretty luxurious. On the same morning that the air force bombed Gaza, wounding 22 people (who were probably all Hamas voters, which means they totally deserved whatever happened to them), the army, the Government Press Office (GPO) and the Foreign Ministry launched a three-pronged, near-simultaneous propaganda [...]
They were born in Israel. They are native Hebrew speakers who were educated in the Israeli public school system. But because they are the offspring of non-Jewish migrant workers, around 1,200 children stand to be deported to their parents’ native countries – even though they’ve never been there and often do not speak the language. [...]
On Friday afternoons in Nabi Salih, it starts like this. A few Israeli and foreign activists arrive at the village around noon, gathering at the home of Bassam Tamimi. His door is open, so there is no need to knock. Inside, villagers and visitors socialize, use the washroom and help themselves from the huge spread [...]
I won’t have time to write a substantial post for another day or two – and no, for those of you who are wondering, I haven’t forgotten about the photos of Houses from Within – so meanwhile I’m bringing you the trailer for a hilarious Israeli documentary film called The Worst Company in the World. [...]
Credit: AP In its May-June issue, the Columbia Journalism Review has published three perspectives on the media’s coverage of Operation Cast Lead, also known as the Gaza War. One of them is by your favourite Israeli blogger (that’d be me). Taghreed El-Khodary is the Gaza correspondent for the New York Times. Her reporter’s notebook piece [...]
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