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 ...
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Feed SubscriptionSomehow 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 ...
Read More »Time To Let The Holocaust Go So We Can Move On To The Next One
By Tim Willcox, British Broadcasting Corporation The last Nazi concentration camp was liberated seventy years ago, but judging from contemporary rhetoric, one would think the atrocities occurred just last week. Social progress will never happen if our society is mired in ...
Read More »Those Sons Of Apes And Pigs Must Stop Dehumanizing Us
By Saeb Erekat, Palestinian Negotiator The key to Israeli-Palestinian peace lies with the people, not with the politicians. A stable, lasting accord must be based in mutual respect for the other’s sovereignty and human dignity. That is why those descendants ...
Read More »Pierce My Extremities At The End Of ‘Holey’ Week? Good One!
By Jesus of Nazareth Dudes, you got me. That has got to be one of the best practical jokes in history. I’m not above admitting when I’ve been positively owned. Driving spikes through my appendages just so you could call ...
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