The group had tried to express its grief over Israel’s killing of Salah Nimr; IDF troops shot Nimr last week when he attempted to run them down at a checkpoint south of Jerusalem. New York, March 16 – The limited knowledge ...
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Feed SubscriptionGaza Man In Trouble For Not Suffering Enough To Make Israel Look Bad
Only by letting suffering dominate the physical and psychological landscape can the sacred mission approach fulfillment. Khan Yunis, March 15 – Hamas authorities in this autonomous coastal territory have begun harassing a local resident, witnesses report, because he fails to ...
Read More »Murder Victim Relieved: Killer Just Anti-Zionist, Not Antisemitic
“Anti-Zionism is totally different – it just takes those tropes and replaces ‘Jewish’ with ‘Zionist’ and that makes it OK.” Southfield, March 14 – A woman killed in a massacre at a synagogue issued a metaphorical exhalation today upon learning that ...
Read More »Calling Facts We Don’t Like ‘Hasbara’ Isn’t Working
by Abier Khatib, keyboard warrior and pro-Palestinian activist New York, March 10 – Folks, we have a problem: all that online engagement on Twitter and Instagram, promoting our narrative and debating against Zios has yet to produce the desired effect. ...
Read More »Grounded Israeli Teen: I Was Home – GPS Showed Me At Friend’s Because Of Russian Jamming
The Ukraine crisis, has made the situation tense enough that his parents are primed to believe anything about Russian capabilities and intentions. Kiryat Bialik, March 10 – A local adolescent expressed relief today that Putin’s forces have been disrupting geolocation service ...
Read More »Dominant Group Representing 96% Of Region’s Population Depicted As Underdog
Israel’s Arab and Muslim foes have been relegated to an area barely more than a hundred times Israel’s size, and they feel the squeeze. Jerusalem, March 9 – An ethnic cohort composing the overwhelming majority of the Middle East’s demographics ...
Read More »Current Gov’t Apparently Out To Prove Netanyahu Not Worst Possible Leader
“Bibi was horrible, don’t get me wrong, but this… this is differently horrible.” Jerusalem, March 8 – Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, his cabinet ministers, and fellow Coalition members have evidently decided to demonstrate to the Israeli public that ousting the ...
Read More »Neverending Laundry Convinces Atheist Parent: Biblical Miracle Of Unlimited Oil Real
“And don’t get me started on dishes. My thinking has really, really come around of late on the whole Biblical miracle thing. It’s much more plausible now.” Mevasseret Tzion, March 7 – A mother of three children in this middle-class Jerusalem suburb ...
Read More »Amnesty Apartheid Investigators To Take Vacay Until Next Israel Report Needed
They plan to spend the next several years gallivanting various places, because their services appear unneeded for at least that long. London, March 4 – Researchers from a prominent international human rights organization informed journalists today that now that their work ...
Read More »Society That Accepts Assaults/Boycotts On Jews Re Israel, Suddenly Worried About Mistreatment Of Russians Re Ukraine
A bigotry that Europeans thought they had vanquished in their society long ago. Frankfurt, March 23 – Europeans who view attacks targeting synagogues and related community institutions as a legitimate form of protest against Jerusalem’s policies vis-à-vis Palestinians now find ...
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