With apologies to Kal Mann and David Appell, late co-writers of the popular 1961 “Bristol Stomp” song….
Read More »Column: When Andrea Mitchell Reports: Holding Israel ‘Accountable,’ But Not Slain Journalist’s Niece
As Andrea Mitchell interviewed her on MSNBC, Lina Abu Akleh took advantage of her forum to accuse Israeli higher-ups of ordering a soldier to kill her aunt, journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Mitchell asked Lina Abu Akleh during Andrea Mitchell Reports if the shooting was “intentional,” and the niece responded, “It …
Read More »Column: Samuel A. Alito Jr. Tells “We the People”: “No Support in American Law For A Constitutional Right To Obtain An Abortion.”
Alito must have been absent the day his law professor reviewed the Preamble, which the dictionary defines as “the introductory part of a constitution or statute that usually states the reasons for and intent of the law.”
Read More »Letters: The Eichmann Tapes and The Long Overdue Death of the “Banality of Evil”
Recently released audio tapes which have Adolf Eichmann talking candidly in 1957 with acquaintances in Argentina demolish "the banality of evil" into smithereens and with it Arendt's purported perception and intellect.
Read More »Column: Invoking Racism: J Street’s Race To The Bottom
Jeremy Ben-Ami might best be advised to check Principle #4 of J Street’s mission before he opens his big mouth in the future. Principle #4 of the Israel-centric organization advocates “vibrant but respectful debate about Israel.” Is “respectful” how J Street’s longtime president would characterize his statement in Saturday’s New York Times?
Read More »Column: Israel, Presumed Guilty
Israel is presumed guilty even after it proves itself innocent. It is fair to conclude that the Palestinians sent this very message when the American government announced that a Palestinian-American journalist was probably shot to death unintentionally by a bullet fired from Israeli military lines. Washington also stated that the …
Read More »Column: Ben & Jerry’s Creates A Drip…A Monstrous Drip
Omar Shakir should forget the popular refrain, “I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream.”
Read More »Column: ‘Sound Of Gunshots’ Will Persist Under New Law
Perhaps John T. Earnest might have been stopped by our new gun safety law from murdering Lori Gilbert Kaye in Poway, but it seems that the law would not have prevented Al Aliwi Al-Issa from massacring 10 people in Boulder.
Read More »Column: With Bibi’s Bungling, Who Needs Antisemites?
As Jerry Seinfeld would put it, “And you want be prime minister again.” While Seinfeld once caught George Costanza sprawled on the floor in his underwear after stumbling in Seinfeld’s living room, last week Benjamin Netanyahu stumbled – a generous description – by comparing accusations against his family to a “blood libel.”
Read More »Letter: Boston Mapping Project: Latest Version of IBM’s Mapping Germany’s Jews for the Nazis
The Mapping Project, emulating IBM's mapping of The Jews of Nazi Germany to identify and locate them for arrest and murder, has published a map of Jewish companies and institutions in greater Boston.
Read More »Antisemitism and Social Media
In the newly published book "Antisemitism on Social Media," a group of scholars examines how Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and other platforms may be fueling this rise in the United States and globally.
Read More »Column: ‘Belligerent Occupation,’ Belligerent Report from U.N.
If only Israel would end its “belligerent occupation.” Most of us know better, but don’t tell that to the United Nations Human Rights Council. Its Commission of Inquiry last week released the first of what they hope will be decades of annual reports on Israel’s oppression of the poor Palestinians.
Read More »Opinion: Gun Violence From a Middle School Perspective
"What if my teachers, office staff or best friends get shot? What if the only people who have made me feel not alone and proud of who I am are killed?"
Read More »Column: Critics Of Orthodox Jewish Bastions Enter Murky Territory
Michelle Zangari opened a can devoid of any live worms when she warned that Orthodox Jews could be poised to seize control of Rockville Centre on Long Island, which was part of an eight-minute rant that drew condemnations against antisemitism from New York’s governor, senior senator and scores of others.
Read More »Letter: Purely a Self-Inflicted “Nakba”
Bruce Ticker accurately describes the fallacious ahistorical jew hatred integral to the " Recognizing the Nakba" , Resolution 1123, introduced by Rashida Tlaib, Omar, Betty McCollum, Marie Newman, Cori Bush, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamal Bowman. ("Column: American Nakba")
Read More »Column: American Nakba
A new play to top the absurdity of “Springtime for Hitler”: “Rashida Resurrects the Nakba Legacy.”
Read More »Letter: BDS = Shoot The Jew
By 2005 Omar Barghouti, a founder of BDS ("Boycott, Divest, Sanction"), had acknowledged that the sole purpose of BDS was the euthanasia of Israel.
Read More »Shoes Can Be a Method Of Escape, And a Tool For Taking Action
I recently gave a lecture to students at Colorado University about my childhood experiences as a refugee survivor from the days of the Holocaust. Aside from relating my story, I had a message to deliver: “Vote. Talk to your friends, parents, neighbors and anyone who will listen. Your country is at stake!”
Read More »Chariots of Fire
Many of you know that the allusion of the title, Chariots of Fire, relate to Eliyahu HaNavi, Elijah the prophet, ascending to heaven in a chariot of fire, as he was leaving this world. So why the connection to this film?
Read More »Column: Arab Leaders So Sure – Yet So Secretive – About Cause of Al Jazeera Reporter’s Death
Amid the varied dissections of Shireen Abu Akleh’s death, the Palestinian Authority was consistent. To paraphrase Israeli diplomat Abba Eban, they did not miss an opportunity to miss the opportunity to sound credible.
Read More »Letter: Settler Colonial = Kike = Sheeny. No Difference
hears the term "settler colonial" spewed as an obscene epithet throughout the American Academia today to disparage the Jewish people of Israel and Zionism positing the fallacious claim that Zionism is an entirely 19th century European invention when in fact Zionism is the singular foundational narrative of the 4000-year-old Jewish Bible.
Read More »Column: The Path Back to Cultural Suppression
Perhaps the Taliban decided it would be timely to out-do our Supreme Court. It decreed on Saturday that the women of Afghanistan must cover their entire bodies, at least with a garment known as a hijab. A burqa would be better, but it is not required.
Read More »Letter: Another Garden Poem
Here is another poem about the Garden of Eden.
Read More »“The Farm Where It Happened?” Drip Irrigation & A Summer of Israeli Environmental Adventure
When we were on a month long family visit to Israel in 1986, on a Denver Federation sponsored trip, Kesher, we saw with our own eyes the very leaky pipe where the inspiration for Drip Irrigation was born.
Read More »Letter: US and Israel: The $3 Billion Bargain
The bottom line ... is that the $3 billion plus that Israel receives from the US each year is a very good bargain for the American taxpayer.
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