“The Council may feel it must lead in these matters, but that does not mean it should do so by making its own achievements untouchable.” Geneva, June 23 – The level of bias and cynicism at play in the United ...
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Feed SubscriptionSepp Blatter, Jack Warner Tapped To Head Human Rights Council
The Council can no longer ignore the bush-league quality of its own corruption. Geneva, June 22 – Exposure of a massive corruption scandal with world soccer’s governing organization at its center has helped the United Nations Human Rights Council find its next ...
Read More »No One Wants To Tell Knesset Speaker His Fly Open
“I just couldn’t stay in there,” said a blushing Zehava Gal-On of Meretz. Jerusalem, June 21 – None of Israel’s other 119 parliamentarians want to be the one to inform Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein that the zipper of his trousers ...
Read More »Local BDS Group Votes To Boycott Israeli BDS Groups
“Being Israeli by definition makes a person an oppressor, or at least an enabler of oppression, and it’s disingenuous to say that that Israeliness, that culpability, is somehow negated by advocating BDS.” Limerick, Ireland, June 17 – Students at the ...
Read More »Somebody Apparently Buying, Eating Krembos
“I’m sure there are plenty of uses for Krembo that don’t involve putting it inside your body.” Ramat Gan, June 18 – Food retailers across the country report that despite the manifestly non-edible nature of the Krembo snack, somebody is ...
Read More »Spelling-Challenged Anti-Islam Activists Protest Vail (Colorado)
The name “Vail” gives undeserved tribute to a culture that subjugates women, promotes terrorism, and suppresses dissent. Vail, CO, June 17 – A group of semiliterate activists opposed to Islamic practices demonstrated in this Rocky Mountain resort town Wednesday, demanding ...
Read More »Louvre Rebuked For Making Antisemitism Too Obvious
Mainstream French society delights in tasteful doses of prejudice against Jews but finds direct manifestations of it grotesque. Paris, June 16 – The government of France issued a stern admonishment to the management of the Louvre Museum Tuesday, warning it that displays ...
Read More »Abbas Confused By ICC Attention To Country Other Than Israel
“Whose side do they think they’re on?” Ramallah, June 15 – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas voiced bewilderment today at the tension over South Africa’s possible arrest of Sudan President Omar al-Bashir at the behest of the International Criminal Court, saying he ...
Read More »Somehow People Are Seeing Through Our Denials Of Antisemitism
By the BDS Movement Our words could be no clearer on the subject: we do not hate Jews. Yet for some reason, people insist on looking at more than just those words – as if other things we say could ...
Read More »Knesset Intelligence Committee Ups Shoe-Theft Allocation
The theft involves athletic shoes, boots, dress shoes, slippers, sandals, clogs, and those creepy shoes with individual toes. Jerusalem, June 13 – Building on the success of recent operations against anti-Israel agitators, the Israeli legislature’s Intelligence Committee held an emergency ...
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