This week, Algerian author Boualem Sansal was stripped of his $15,000 prize money for winning Editions Gallimard Arabic Novel prize. Paris-based Arab Ambassadors’ Council pulled the plug on this distinguished author. For daring to attend the Jerusalem Writers Festival last May as a guest of honor, Sansal was denounced by Hamas as committing “an act [...]
For obvious reasons, April 15 is one of the most dreaded days in America. Now it will have a bad rap in Israel but for a very different reason. You see, another publicity stunt known as both “Air Flotilla 2” and “Welcome to Palestine” arrives at Ben Gurion Airport this Sunday. Judging by its lethal [...]
March 30, 2012 06:00 I wake up, open my eyes, its one week to Passover, so many things to do, so little time to do them. Passover is the busiest time of the year in Israel. People go crazy with preparations for this holiday: Cleaning houses; dusting; vacuuming; painting the walls with fresh paint; changing [...]
The Global March to Jerusalem is just publicity stunt the same as the Gaza flotilla in 2010, “Nakba” day in 2011 followed a month later by “Naksa” day as I blogged about yesterday. Today, Israeli media are even reporting a possible aerial flotilla. The delegitimization of Israel never stops. The common thread (besides destroying the [...]
