By Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah Ramallah, July 10 – It is time to put to rest the notion that the Palestinian Authority suppresses free speech. Palestinians under President Mahmoud Abbas’s rule are free to say anything, criticize anyone, as ...
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By Flitter the Roach Under the Fridge, July 6 – You humans are right to be worked up about Iran’s nuclear ambitions, but only if you insist on your anthropocentric view. We cockroaches have no problem with a nuclear Iran. ...
Read More »Excuse Me Mr. ISIS Jail Guard, But I Only Eat Gluten-Free
By Prisoner 3445509 Yoo hoo! Excuse me! Mr. guard? Over here, yes, the second cell from the end. Thank you for these rations. They look nourishing. But you know, I avoid gluten. Would it be possible to get something not ...
Read More »I Hope My Grave Is Desecrated By Someone Important
It would have to be a real hands-on leader, a person who revels in leading by example. By Mor-Tal Koyle At some point we’re just going to have to accept that haters will be haters and that the desecration of ...
Read More »Somehow People Are Seeing Through Our Denials Of Antisemitism
By the BDS Movement Our words could be no clearer on the subject: we do not hate Jews. Yet for some reason, people insist on looking at more than just those words – as if other things we say could ...
Read More »Omar Barghouti Is Actually A Zionist Agent
The US Congress is considering a sweeping anti-BDS law. I must give credit where credit is due: Omar, we couldn’t have done this without you. By Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Now is as good a time to let it be ...
Read More »It’s Racist To Point Out Our Racism
By Saeb Erekat, Chief Palestinian Negotiator In 2015, one should not have to point out racist behavior that should have disappeared long ago. I should not need to call people’s attention to racism, since they should, by now, have grown sensitive ...
Read More »Since When Does A Democratically Elected Government Get To Make Policy?
Just keep plugging away at that message, invoking fascism every time the Right does anything, keeping the focus off our own antidemocratic machinations. By Aluf Benn, Editor-in-Chief, Haaretz If Binyamin Netanyahu thinks he gets to take the lead in ...
Read More »We Must Disregard Elections In Favor Of Opinion Poll Results
by Ed Miliband and Isaac Herzog Both of our countries witnessed hard-fought national elections this year, elections that featured a striking similarity: in both cases, opinion polls leading up to the voting indicated the results were too close to call, ...
Read More »The Nazis Lost, So Caricaturing Them Is “Punching Down”
By Garry Trudeau, cartoonist People trying to defend Charlie Hebdo’s artists on free speech grounds might have an argument, but the exercise of free expression carries responsibility. One may not abuse that right just to offend a persecuted minority – which ...
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