John O Born in Britain of Irish parentage. This user account status is Approved Comments Comments Posts Posts Just call it "Patriotism" and everything will be OK. On Quoting Orwell against Trump, Bill Kristol leaves out the anti-Zionism of ‘Notes on Nationalism’ Sachs and Abu-Shanab have an op-ed in today's Guardian (print and web editions): https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/22/fined-lorde-boycott-israel-tel-aviv-concert On Israeli effort to punish BDS activists for Lorde cancellation is backfiring "The Catholic church says give me a kid till he’s six, you can have them the rest of their lives." Didn't work with me. OK, I have a Master's in Guilt, but apart from that, nada. On Malcolm Hoenlein on fostering Jewish power, inoculating 5-year-olds for Israel, and preventing intermarriage @Pheasant But do you ever step outside your gate and ask one? On Israeli politicians condemn marriage of Jewish and Muslim celebrities as effort to ‘hurt our state’ Meanwhile, in New Zealand: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/15/lorde-concert-boycott-new-zealanders-fined-by-israel-raise-thousands-for-gaza On Lara Alqasem’s lawyer: her detention is part of a larger, more worrying trend Following my recent analysis of Jeffrey Goldberg's literary style here a little while ago, I decided to have a look at Friedman's article "Praying for Jamal Khashoggi" (NYT, 8 October 2018). As I noted on a previous thread, Friedman is really fond of the first-person singular pronoun ("I"). In an article of 1,319 words, in 21 paragraphs, he refers to himself 20 times (21 if you count the word "me" as well). This gives a Friedman Index of 0.95. A grateful world already has the Friedman Unit (i.e. "the next six months"), so I humbly submit the Friedman Index for your consideration. On The value of Thomas Friedman @Boris "Israel is a sovereign country and can limit entry to anyone for any reason." True. And if it carries on its present path, it will be denying entry to Christians, people of colour, Norwegians, post office staff, archaeologists, refugees, blood group A, sturdy beggars, pigeon-fanciers, Jews who protest against Zionism, redheads, singer-songwriters, academics, oenophiles, quiltmakers, diplomats ... . You seem very happy to give your politicians unlimited power. On Detained by Israel for a week, with bedbugs, Florida student becomes a public-relations catastrophe @Pheasant So, she is "free" to (a) recant, like Galileo, and say that BDS is wrong in order to proceed to an Israeli university to study human rights for a PhD in iron; or (b) to leave and accept the injustice of being denied entry to a country because its government doesn't like the things she has said. On Detained by Israel for a week, with bedbugs, Florida student becomes a public-relations catastrophe Is she walking freely around the streets of Tel Aviv? or is she stuck, against her will in a facility at Ben Gurion Airport? If the latter, then she's detained. On Detained by Israel for a week, with bedbugs, Florida student becomes a public-relations catastrophe Letter signed by over 300 academics in Guardian 11 Oct: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/10/israel-must-lift-its-bar-on-us-student-lara-alqasem On Detained by Israel for a week, with bedbugs, Florida student becomes a public-relations catastrophe load more comments
