“Whose side do they think they’re on?” Ramallah, June 15 – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas voiced bewilderment today at the tension over South Africa’s possible arrest of Sudan President Omar al-Bashir at the behest of the International Criminal Court, saying he ...
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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 »Knesset Intelligence Committee Ups Shoe-Theft Allocation
The theft involves athletic shoes, boots, dress shoes, slippers, sandals, clogs, and those creepy shoes with individual toes. Jerusalem, June 13 – Building on the success of recent operations against anti-Israel agitators, the Israeli legislature’s Intelligence Committee held an emergency ...
Read More »Russia: We Won’t Get In Way If World Decides Not To Strike Syria
“History is rife with nations standing idly by while other nations stand idly by.” Moscow, June 10 – Russian Foreign Minster Sergei Lavrov told reporters at a press conference this evening that if the Western powers decide to maintain their inaction on Syria, ...
Read More »Candy To Celebrate Palestinian Deaths Inexplicably Selling Badly
He assumed, based on media coverage of right-wing Jews, that the latter would respond with open pocketbooks. Jerusalem, June 11 – An entrepreneur who hoped to be the first to open an untapped market in Israel admitted error in gauging ...
Read More »Israel Only Mideast Country Promoting Safe Sects
In many Mideast societies it takes force to unite opposite sects. Jerusalem, June 10 – A survey of Middle East religious communities and their host countries shows that Israel remains the only country in the region that makes it a policy ...
Read More »SCOTUS Upholds Presidential Prerogative To Conduct Crappy Foreign Policy
It is up to the president to decide how to conduct the country’s most counterproductive and humiliating foreign policy in more than a century. Washington, June 9 – In a 6-3 ruling, on Monday the Supreme Court ruled that successive ...
Read More »Siege Forcing Gazans To Reuse Antisemitic Epithets
“It can be hard for people outside Gaza to appreciate the harshness of these conditions,” said Gunness. Gaza City, June 8 – The ongoing Israeli and Egyptian blockade of this coastal territory has strained local availability of new anti-Jewish insults, ...
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 »Herzog: Time To Set Aside Politics, Focus On Sowing Division
“I, for one, will be withholding my customary reflexive criticism of the prime minister until these crises have abated, and will instead work on openly fomenting dissent and mutiny.” Tel Aviv, June 6 – As Israel faces renewed missile attacks ...
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