by Fadi al-Masri, Local Hamas Committee Director Gaza City, July 13 – I love many things about our culture: the dance, the food, the Islamic art, the Gaza-specific maritime vibe, the desert that suffuses the Bedouin element of our identity. ...
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Feed SubscriptionCountryside Climate Activist Bitter He Must Travel Hours To Disrupt Traffic Of Any Consequence
“Tel Aviv, even Jerusalem, that’s where the social action action is.” Dimona, July 12 – A resident of this development town in the Negev lamented the fact that his activities to promote awareness of, and urge the adoption of mitigation ...
Read More »Mainstream Press Gearing Up To Be Oppositional Again If Bibi Elected
“It’s important for us to remain objective.” Jerusalem, July 11 – Israeli journalists and pundits began to practice their “speaking truth to power” attitude this week and last, after letting the skill set lapse over the last year, now that ...
Read More »Antisemitism Removed From Saudi Textbooks Added To Palestinian Books
“It’s definitely been a challenge.” Ramallah, July 7 – The sea change underway in the Middle East involving the acceptance and integration of Israel into a region once uniformly hostile to the Jewish State continues among numerous avenues, such as the reworking ...
Read More »Iran Replaces Suspected Israeli Mole With Unsuspected Israeli Mole
Israel’s penetration of Iran’s security apparatus is so thorough and comprehensive that whoever gets shuffled into new positions is just as likely, and perhaps more likely, than his predecessor, to be working for the Mossad. Tehran, July 7 – A ...
Read More »Frankenstein, Igor Bummed At Having To Get Sprinkled By Red Heifer Ash
“I’m a little busy now trying to locate my monster.” Geneva, July 6 – A scientist and his assistant whose work has required them to come into contact with human remains, and thus to contract what the Bible considers spiritual ...
Read More »‘Entities Upholding White Supremacy’ Database Unwieldy After Including Every Business, House Of Worship, Gov’t Office, Community Group In US
“Everything and everyone upholds white supremacy, given the breadth of the term’s definition necessary for us to wield is at a political cudgel as we see fit.” New York, July 5 – Progressive activists following the lead of a Boston-area ...
Read More »I’m So Angry At SCOTUS I’ve Had Six Abortions In The Last Week Just To Show Them
By Shea McKinnon, LGBTQIA2+-, BIPOC-, Latinx-, and persons-with-a-uterus Ally New York, July 4 – Each year on this date the pain compounds, as people of conscience everywhere bemoan the establishment of the worst society in history, with the possible exception of ...
Read More »Activists Scouring Israeli Summer Camps For Violence-Glorifying Resort To Describing Lunch As ‘Brutal Use Of Teeth On Bread’
“Games such as ‘tag’ and ‘Capture the Flag’ induce them to trample the land with their unhygienic, ‘filthy,’ if you will, feet, violating the sensibilities of Palestinians everywhere.” Jerusalem, June 30 – Progressive American NGOs have dispatched researchers to examine ...
Read More »Campaign Operations Derailed By Pollstergeist
The specter of a fifth election cycle has haunted Israel since last year. Tel Aviv, June 30 – New parliamentary elections face Israel in just under five months, and already a destructive paranormal phenomenon has sabotaged several parties’ surveying activity, sources from behind ...
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