By Mahmoud Abbas, President, Palestinian National Authority Ramallah, June 26 – The Trump administration’s upcoming conference in Bahrain will go nowhere because it denies the Palestinian people the dignity they maintain through living on international handouts, refusing to develop a ...
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by Nimrod Rothschild, CEO, Triumvirate Holdings Tel Aviv, June 17 – My company has always prided itself on embracing the most advanced management techniques. We were among the first to develop and adopt a social media strategy, and we continue ...
Read More »No, Weinberg, It’s MY Turn To Control The Stock Market Today
By Moshe Katz, Deputy Assistant Elder of Zion New York, June 5 – What’s this? Hello? Weinberg, what are you doing here? The Elders assigned me the task of manipulating the New York Stock Exchange today, not you. Please leave. Yes, ...
Read More »Tel Aviv Is The Place To Be For Partyi- I Mean For Monitoring Human Rights
By Dominic Lord, human rights activist Tel Aviv, May 23 – We activists take our role seriously: forming alliances, raising awareness, generating political pressure, and partying till all hours in this fabulous city. This is where the human rights action ...
Read More »It’s Not My Position To Tell Palestinians Under Occupation How To Kill Jews
By Linda Sarsour I make a good deal of noise about the oppression and marginalization of various disadvantaged groups within American society, but I do recognize the relative privilege that we Americans, even many marginalized ones, have, compared to the ...
Read More »No, Sweetie, The Fancy Rockets Are Only When We Have Guests
By Wafa Shtayyeh, Hamas wife and mother Shuja’iyya Refugee Camp, Gaza Strip – Honey, I know you love when we break out the special missiles with the sleek design, but you know we only use those when special people are ...
Read More »You’re Not A Real Progressive If You Haven’t Reworked The Haggadah To Fit Your Agenda
By Shir Dimensha, Professor of Comparative Literature New York, April 17 – The quantity of self-identifying progressives in our society has grown steadily in recent decades, in volume if not absolute numbers, but the best way to demonstrate one’s seriousness ...
Read More »I’m Not Elitist – I Just Know Better Than You All What’s Good for You
By Roger Cohen, New York Times Columnist London, April 10 – My various columns over the years in which I showcase my upper-middle-class, translatlantic, more-educated-than-thou, and secular-but-culturally-Jewish-as-long-as-it-fits-my-politics-and-lifestyle outlook may have conveyed the wrong idea to many readers as to my ...
Read More »I Like Sunsets, Walks On The Beach, And Sending Children To Get Shot At Violent Riots
By Yasmin al-Yamani, Gaza Strip Resident Gaza City, April 1 – Thank you for checking out my profile at GazaDate and choosing to get in touch! I’m sure we’ll have lots to talk about once we get past the preliminaries, ...
Read More »Every Single Purim Costume Is A Microaggression
By Amira Woker Few Israeli parents give much thought to the societal or political implications of the mask or other attire their children don for this holiday, but that also means few parents realize how problematic that attire is, especially ...
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