by Mahmoud Abbas, President, Palestinian Authority Ramallah, August 5 – This office put out an official message of condolence to the people of the United States as soon as we heard of the mass shootings in Texas and Ohio over ...
Read More »Category Archives: Opinion
Feed SubscriptionNo Other Country Kicks Us Out When We Try To Undermine Only Israel’s Existential Legitimacy
By Kenneth Roth, Director, Human Rights Watch Our researchers should be free to conduct their observations and analysis in a country that purports to call itself democratic, but Israel’s behavior in this regard raises some disturbing questions: what does it ...
Read More »In NY I’ll Have To Keep Reminding Myself I Can’t Just Jail Nosy Reporters
by Javad Zarif, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Iran Tehran, July 16 – During my current visit to the Big Apple, I will need to keep in mind that I cannot react to challenging questions from journalists by ...
Read More »My Favorite Biblical Moment Is When Moses Brought The Palestinians Into The Promised Land
by Linda Sarsour It’s difficult for me to choose one episode or incident in Scripture that appeals to me more than any other, but if forced, I’d have to say when Moses, after four hundred years of wandering through the ...
Read More »It Would Violate Our Dignity To Improve Our Economy
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 ...
Read More »My Male Workers Should Transition To Female So I Can Pay Them Less
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 »