NPR’s "All Things Considered" did two pieces on the new Israel yesterday. One was about…
A committee of the Israeli Knesset has passed anti-Nakba legislation. The law would not criminalize commemorations of the Nakba–the original legislation, loudly condemned–but, Haaretz reports, end public funding for activities that “reject the existence of the State of Israel as…
Beforehand my wife told her friend that I would laugh harder than anyone in the theater all thru “Bruno” then when we got out I’d say, “That wasn’t so good.” She was right, as usual. Two good things were: 1,…
I attack the Washington Post all the time. Well here’s a great piece by Howard Schneider and Samuel Sockol of the Post about Israeli novelist Alon Hilu, who has made the Nakba a central theme in a historical novel about…
Isabel Kershner, writing from Lod, Israel: Lod’s 75,000 residents are mostly Jewish, with Arabs making up a quarter or more of the population. Previously an Arab city known as Lydda, it was conquered by Israeli forces in July 1948. Most…
Lately we’ve been conducting an informal roundtable on the challenge, Offer readers a forward-looking solution in Israel/Palestine. The following is a response from David Zellnik, a leading young playwright, and non-Zionist Jew. Actions are more important than words, as in…
The paper was given today by Eitan Bronstein at the Shadow of Memory: Relational Perspectives of Remembering & Forgetting conference held in Tel Aviv. Bronstein is the Director of the Israeli organization Zochrot, which carries out educational and advocacy campaigns…
This is an interesting, Talmudic piece in Haaretz by Chaim Gans, an author on Zionism, saying that Palestinians unfairly paid the price (as no other people did) for the creation of the Jewish state, but that there was justice in…
Malcolm Hoenlein didn’t like Ron Kessler’s report on his comments about Jews being not crazy about Obama, apparently. And questioning what Obama “believes.” He “backtracked,” Newsmax.com says. Well, Newsmax.com is now releasing the transcript of the original interview. Here’s a…