Author Archives: Ira Glunts

The first Palestinian and first Arab woman to make it to climb Everest was the Yaffa-born Suzanne al Houby, in 2011. Now Raed Zidan has joined her, the first Palestinian man

Shmuel Rosner is (sort of) convinced by bizarre Israeli al-Dura report

The Church of Scotland yesterday issued a revised version of the report titled “The Inheritance of Abraham? A Report on the Promised Land,” after it was harshly, and in my opinion, unfairly criticized by Jewish groups; Ira Glunts says. The debate on the report has been postponed by the church one week

Zionists didn’t use theology to justify their settlement in Palestine, traditionally. But when the history of the Nakba put them on the defensive, they began injecting biblical themes into the claim

500 protest settler harassment, the largest Palestinian demonstration of its kind in recent years

Defence for Children International Palestine (DCI-Palestine) released this video of the Israeli Border Police allegedly showing a Palestinian teenager being forced to act as a human shield. The young man, identified only as “Mohammed K., 17,” had been participating in a demonstration in support of hunger striking prisoners which occurred in the West Bank town of Abu Dis on Friday, April 19.

Prokhorov may have more power in Russia than Putin, Forbes Israel says, in Hebrew edition bragging on Jewish billionaires

On the occasion of Memorial Day when Israel commemorates its dead soldiers and others who were killed in its conflict with its neighbors, Sergeant Major Avi Ben Chamo placed the following “joke” on his Facebook account: An Arab asks a Jew on Memorial Day eve: ‘Why do you stand [at attention] at the sound of the siren?’ The Jew answers: ‘We stand silently [at attention] to remember the Jewish soldiers that were killed in Israeli wars.’ The Arab asks: ‘What about our dead?’ The Jew answers, ‘Ah, that we celebrate tomorrow…’

AB Yehoshua and Amos Oz are the kind faces of occupation when they ask Samer Issawi to give up his fast, ignoring his requests

“The recent increase in attacks against Arabs is a symptom of a racist and intolerant society” — Ahmed Tibi

The Zionists made the desert bloom, then they turned it into a cage. And who is inside it?

Yesterday, ten days after the emir of Qatar, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, became the first head of state ever to visit Gaza, two-year-old filly Flotilla, owned by another member of the Qatari ruling family, Sheikh Mohammed al-Thani, thrilled racegoers who are supporters of the Gaza flotilla movement, by winning the prestigious Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf race by a length and a quarter.

As part of its role, The Times serves the Jewish community– so it must feature Shmuel Rosner’s description of occupation tourism in Palestine. In any other illegal occupation, it would never be neutral

If Germany takes measures against circumcision, presumably Muslims and not just Jews would feel unwelcome

Mixing football season and the Jewish high holidays