By Donald Trump, terrific, amazing billionaire We have to make America great again. Vote for me to become president and we’ll get there faster than you can say, “Multiple bankruptcies.” It’ll be amazing. You’ll never need to pee again. Only ...
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Feed SubscriptionBlaming Israel For Everything Has Really Helped My Marriage
By Ahmad Al-Hajj Nobody ever said marriage was easy. Even in a male-dominated, patriarchal society such as ours, there is no substitute for a romantic relationship with a woman who chooses to love you despite – or perhaps because of – ...
Read More »Tolerance Is So Important To Us, We’ll Even Tolerate Intolerance*
*especially of Jews By Western Europe If there is one thing Europe has learned from its bloody history, it is the supreme value of tolerance. Centuries of near-constant warfare, fed by religion, ethnicity, politics, and competition finally grew so destructive ...
Read More »I Like To Think Of Jews As ‘Those People With No Political Rights’
By Jeremy Ben-Ami, director, J-Street You’ve heard me say it many times, and you’ve seen our publicity campaigns: we’re a pro-peace, pro-Israel organization. In practice, that means we suborn our idea of “pro -Israel” to our idea of “peace.” To ...
Read More »Wait, I Was Supposed To Bring Journalistic Integrity To The Job?
By Jodi Rudoren, NY Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief It’s been a challenging, exhilarating, fulfilling stint here at the Jerusalem bureau, and I’m grateful for all of you who helped make my time here so wonderful. It is a bittersweet departure ...
Read More »Training Kids To Stab Opponents Is Key To Building A Stable Society
By Nabil Shaath, Palestinian Official The attacks on Israelis over the last two months have served two purposes: one, to resist the ongoing Occupation by any means possible; and two, to educate the next generation in a primary tool of political ...
Read More »What’s The Best Knife For Stab- I Mean To Have Planted On Me?
By Suha Jabbari, 17 Dad, I want to go perform a heroic martyrdom operation and kill some pig Jews. What’s the best implement to use so I make sure to do the most dam- I mean, so that when the ...
Read More »Your Obtuseness About Why I Want To Kill You Makes Me Want To Kill You
By Ali Mustafa, Daesh fighter I don’t know how many times we have to say why we want to kill you infidels before you finally take us at our word. Your seeming inability to comprehend why we want to kill ...
Read More »First ‘Queers For Palestine,’ Then ‘Soviet POWs For Auschwitz’
By Sarah Schulman, LGBTQ and Palestinian Rights Activist Progressives have to stick together, and must take care not to become hyper-focused only on their respective areas of concern. Progressivism is an attitude that does not lend itself to fragmented endeavors. All ...
Read More »If Only There Were Some Non-Violent Way To Protest
By Bassem Tamimi, Palestinian Activist President Abbas asserted to the United Nations General Assembly several weeks ago what we all know to be true: that ours is a culture of peace. It might sometimes appear otherwise, since we engage in ...
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