BlogPost: With a Shield or Upon It – Impressions from the Spartan State by Tali Shapiro
It’s not hard to see how a society would slip from the Trumpeldor tradition to the Dahiya Doctrine…
It’s not hard to see how a society would slip from the Trumpeldor tradition to the Dahiya Doctrine…
In Israel, free speech means an institution has the right to speak out against individuals, who’s opinions it doesn’t like…
Good propaganda isn’t constructed on lies, but rather half truths. Missing context, however, is not the only component the Israeli media employs to distort the Israeli mind. Another subtle trick is what the media focuses on. Three stories were revealed
The world is far from black and white, and just as the Zionist Benny Morris’ work is regarded in academic discussion of Palestinian history, so can the writings of the Institute for Historical Review teach us about Zionist history…
One must travel into the alternate universe, known as Israel, ever so often. So I put on my goggles and nose plug and sink my hands deep into Ha’aretz’s front page…
I’ve probably told this story- orally- hundreds of times, in the past nine months. It’s a story I find fascinating, and I ask it of every Israeli I meet: How did you become a dissident?..
On the way to their military jeep they twisted my arms and beat me. I kept calling out that I wasn’t resisting the arrest, until a hand clutched my throat and I suddenly couldn’t breathe much less shout. Soldiers who passed by the group dragging me to the
I always talk about Israeli pacifists and their inability to see the barriers they place on the Palestinian road to justice, dignity, and human rights. Today I’d like to talk about a much more appalling occurrence; Amnesty International supporting Leona
Zionists suffer from an inherent identity crisis. You can’t be a humanist or a pacifist, have compassion, or trust. You can’t be non-religious, even if you’re an atheist. You can’t be an individual (although you can have the capitalist illusion of
I met Yousef on Facebook. He said he wants to convey the suffering that is going on in Gaza. He gave me permission to publish his story, in his own words. This is Gaza, 8 months after the blitz…