A Democracy For Some, But Not For All

02.20.2022 __ “Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right,” I remember P. J. O’Rourke, who died Continue reading →

Ben & Jerry’s Ice-Cream War: BDS, Booza, Sprinkles 

07.25.2021 ________________________________________ My love for ice cream – and its many iterations, especially with chocolate sprinkles – emerged at an Continue reading →

Bye-Bye Hasbara: It’s not about Hamas

06.06.2021 ________________________________________ Public diplomacy in Israel, known as Hasbara, is a well-known and until recently successfully deployed PR effort to Continue reading →

Palestine: First and Foremost the Land; Above All, Dignity

02.02.2020 ________________________________________ Originally erected by Caliph Umar in the 7th century, the Al-Aqsa Mosque, built on the Temple Mount in Continue reading →

Sitti. Sitto. Grandmothers: Compasses That Point to Justice, Love, Resistance

08.25.2019 ________________________________________ “My grandmother lives on the other side of the earth,” Naomi Shihab Nye writes in Sitti’s Secrets. “She Continue reading →

Palestine-Israel: Toward a One-State Solution

01.08.2017 ________________________________________ British-Israeli historian Avi Shlaim, emeritus professor at Oxford University, once commented on the ongoing colonization of Palestinian territory: Continue reading →

‘How come he can’t see his own savagery?’

04.03.2016 ________________________________________________________ It’s Friday: Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter have passed; Passover approaches; in the distance Ramadan Continue reading →

Mr. Romney: Welcome to (Occupied) Palestine

07.29.2012 _____________________ Mitt Romney arrives in Israel today as part of a three-country tour which began in, as Romney erroneously Continue reading →