“They will not break us!”
There is a witchhunt going on against peace and human right activists. The government is behind it. The mainstream media help to stoke the fire. It started with laws specifically targeting left-wing associations and with attacks on the reservist group “Breaking the Silence.” A new stage has been reached with a TV broadcast of two […]
The Widening Gap
IN ANY list of Israel’s 100 most important women, Ilana Dayan would occupy a prominent position. Dayan (no relation to the late general with the eye patch) is the host of one of the most prestigious television programs. While Israeli TV in general is slowly sinking into a morass of stupid “reality” entertainment, her program, […]
Occupation refuser
Tair Kaminer, 19,Said what manyFail to understand:“There is no securityUnder occupation!”She is nowIn military prisonFor refusing to serveThe occupation. Published in Haaretz, 15/01/16
Fear of Assimilation
THE ISRAELI Ministry of Education has struck a book from students’ reading lists.Big deal. Happens every day in Russia, China and Iran. But this was not a revolutionary work by a fire-eating rebel. It is a gentle novel by an appreciated female author, Dorit Rabinyan. Her cardinal sin was the plot: a love story between […]
Support imprisoned CO Tair Kaminer!
A demonstration in support of imprisoned conscientious objector Tair Kaminer will take place 12.00 Noon on Saturday, January 23, 2016 in front of the military prison at Zrifin. Meeting place is the parking lot of the entrance to Zrifin from Rishon Letzion. Transportation leaves at 11:00 am from Binyaney Hauma (The Jerusalem International Convention Center) […]
As promised
Who says thatNetanyahuDoes notKeep his promises?He indeedSolemnly promisedThat we willLive foreverBy the sword! Published in Haaretz 08/01/16
A Bribery Case
WHEN THE State of Israel was founded, the new foreign minister, Moshe Sharett, did something that seemed quite natural. He sold his private apartment. In his new function, he was accorded an official residence. A modest one, needless to say. Sharett thought that it was unseemly for a public official to retain a private apartment […]
And who gets stigmatized?
In a country whichGets annual billionsFrom a foreign government,Where settlers are financedBy anonymous donors,And a casino tycoon publishesA paper for the Prime Minister -Human Rights activistsAre stigmatizedAs foreign agents! Published in Ha’aretz, 01/01/16
Imagined Nations
TWO WEEKS ago, Benedict Anderson died. Or, as we say in Hebrew, “went to his world”. Anderson, an Irishman born in China, educated in England, fluent in several South Asian languages, had a large influence on my intellectual world. I owe a lot to his most important book, “Imagined Communities”. EACH OF us has a […]
There was a warning
In 1967,Yeshayahu LeibovitzWarned:If the occupationLasts long,Repression wouldTurn not onlyAgainst Arabs.In 2015,Even detainees ofThe extreme rightExperience thisThe hard way. Haaretz, 25.12.2015