Harry's Place

This is a cross-post from falsedichotomies.com
The blond youth waving an Israeli flag looked at me in astonishment. I was standing on the other side of the street, just opposite the Damascus Gate, and I was standing with the Arabs. And yet I had just told him that I had made aliyah six years ago and [...]

Prof. Alan Dershowitz writes at Ynet.com:
[W]henever I get discouraged, I recall an incident several years ago at the University of California at Irvine, which is a hotbed of anti-Israel hate speech. This is the very same campus where radical Islamic students tried to prevent Israel’s moderate ambassador, Professor Michael Oren, from speaking.
About a year before [...]

This is a cross-post from falsedichotomies.com
There’s not much new in the Omar Barghouti vs. Bernard Avishai debate, and I’ve dealt with a lot of the issues raised elsewhere, but Barghouti does make one point that urgently needs to be challenged: the idea that BDS is simply a movement concerned with dispassionately implementing the demands of “justice” and [...]

A recent post, about Andy Slaughter, focused in part on objections, shared by most commenters, to the way he framed his points about I/P, his reference to an ‘Israeli propaganda machine, for example.  It was voices like his which first made me start to take an interest in I/P – though not in the intended [...]

Instead of Israeli authorities simply rounding up and sending back the “pro-Palestinian flytilla” activists arriving at Ben Gurion airport, can I suggest an alternative?
How about offering them the option of:
a) Going back where they came from; or
b) Touring the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem before being allowed to head to the West Bank.

I doubt [...]

This is a cross post from BICOM
Dr. Tal Becker served as senior policy advisor to Israel’s minister of foreign affairs from 2006 to 2009 and was a lead negotiator during Israeli-Palestinian negotiations that took place under the auspices of the Annapolis peace process. He is a fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, an International Associate [...]

CifWatch highlights how the tragic accidental death of a little girl from Gaza has been used to whip up fury against Israel.  Raja Abu Shaban died in an accident in 2006 which had nothing to do with Israeli action, and photographs were first circulated at the time of her death, claiming that she had been [...]

As Israelinurse has just noted over on Cif Watch, the Guardian today ran a piece by the wife of Khader Adnan. It includes passages such as this:
Our life was turned upside down on 17 December 2011 when Israeli troops raided our home in Araba village, south of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. It was [...]

This is a guest post by Hasan Afzal.
I’ve always thought that Haaretz opinion editorials are proof, if you required more than the empirical studies done, that Israel is a democracy. The vile contempt that most of the left-of-centre columnists and writers show for Israel is truly a tribute to the cornerstone attribute of any civilised [...]

This is a cross-post from falsedichotomies.com
Everyone knows that the Jews control Hollywood. Everyone also knows that Jews are ‘Israel-firsters’. Which means that those who are not ‘Israel-firsters’ are going to have a tough time making it in the movie industry. Take Tilda Swinton. Even falsedi’s resident film critic, the Highbury Gaon, said that We Need to Talk [...]