Try to imagine a young educated marxist conscript who had lost his consciousness during the Battle of the Somme, was then cryogenically frozen, and only revived last year. What would be his analysis of the conflicts in the Middle East? To answer this, consider John Spritzler's latest contribution. T...

No matter how many we prove that the escalation that led to Israel's invasion of Gaza was chiefly the result of Israeli decisions, the canard that Israel "had to respond to Qassams" is not going away. It is too convenient and therefore almost immune from rational refutation. Nevertheless, here we tr...

We are in Apartheid Week, and a good time to revisit the question. How similar is the regime in Israel to the defunct Apartheid regime? We can answer that question by pointing the many similarities, as many have done extensively. Stop The Wall has an excellent summary of all the aspects that justify...

Oswald Grübel, the new CEO of UBS, the Swiss bank that, like many of its Atlantic peers, exists today only thanks to generous public assistance that pays for its former recklessness, earned ca. $20,000 on his first two days on the job. His pre-bonus annual "compensation" is CHF 3 million. Some Swis...

M J Rosenberg, Director of Israel Policy Forum and J-Street promoter, displays his utter ignorance about Israel and zionism on TPM Cafe, mixed with the white man's natural arrogance. Writing about the Israeli elections, he bemoans the racism of the "Israeli Right", but has no clue where it comes fro...

Antisemitism is big news after the Gaza massacres. But how much of it is manufactured? In Caracas, a major synagogue was attacked and defaced. The result: The attack produced a deluge of condemnation of President Hugo Chavez, a vocal critic of Israeli foreign policy who last month expelled Israel's ...

As many have said, including me, the difference between Right and Left in Israel has nothing to do with the usual meaning of the terms. Both the Right and the Left are racist and Jewish supremacist. Both support the worst human rights abuse and both show absolutely no interest in peace or compromise...

I'm following on David's post below. Jonathan Freedland wrote that left rhetoric implies that if Jews refuse to dissociate themselves from Israel, then they are fair game for abuse and attack until they publicly recant. There are a few deep flaws in the arguments leading to this conclusion. First, t...