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If you haven’t heard Vincent Browne’s inflammatory comments, check them out here. Dear Vincent Browne, As a young journalist, I look to people like you to be my models of proper behavior. It is the job of a journalist to speak truth to power, to scrutinize every word they say, and to hold them accountable. [...]
We begin today a series entitled “A World Without Israel.” In it, we look at the ways in which Israel’s existence has enriched American lives. Our first entry is from Elke Weiss, Law Student, Grad Student, Journalist, and Blogger who will be at Comic Con this weekend I know that given world events pop culture [...]
Last Saturday, the NYU’s New School hosted a troubling panel entitled “The Jewish-American Relationship with Israel at the Crossroads.” The panel program explained that they were there to discuss the “possibility that increasing awareness of the conflict among the American Jewish community is creating a more critical stance towards Israel.” This is an interesting topic [...]
In what likely is a cosmic joke, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran will be addressing the UN on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur. Likely, it’s just a complete accident and the irony is lost on Iran. If the day was chosen as an insult, it only shows the cowardice of the [...]
Election years tend to divide all of us down party lines. Independents—like me—end up having to choose the least problematic candidate. For most of us, that means that we focus on a few specific issues that represent “red lines” which we will not cross. One of my red lines is Israel. What’s sad is that [...]
Today, the Haifa district court ruled that the death of Rachel Corrie was an unfortunate accident. I respectfully disagree with the verdict. While I do not blame the bulldozer operator for the tragedy, I do blame the people who willingly and knowingly put Rachel Corrie and other civilians into a military zone during the intifada. [...]
On Sunday, Israeli forces thwarted a terrorist attempt on its borders when fifteen innocent Egyptian soldiers were murdered by Islamist gunmen who stole a vehicle to try to invade Israeli sovereignty. As evidenced by the callous disregard for their fellow Muslims, the terrorists have sent a message. No one is safe. Many in the Arab [...]
After my last post about conversations I would like to stop having on Israel, I considered conversations that the mainstream audience is not having on Israel. The British Ambassador to Israel, Matthew Gould said this week that there is a “growing concern” in the United Kingdom that Israel isn’t doing enough to achieve progress in [...]
