The Magnes Zionist

The Israel foreign ministry has released a hundred and fifty page defense of the IDF's "Operation Cast Lead". You can read abo...

  Gaza scene, January 2009   My eyes shall flow without cease Without respite Until the Lord looks down And beholds from heaven … ...

Question: What are the words for "Foreign Ministry spin" in Hebrew? Answer: "Barak Ravid"   http://www.haaretz.com/hase...

Avigdor Lieberman's Foreign Ministry is trying to silence the IDF veterans group, "Breaking the Silence." For five years the ...

Here is another testimony about rules of engagement, or lack thereof, in the Gaza campaign. The BtS booklet can be downloaded here . Testimo...

Today's Haaretz featured a front-page petition, signed by well-known Israeli writers, artists, entertainers, and intellectuals on the ...

Akiva Eldar writes in today's Haaretz that the government is considering creating a sewage treatment system near Ofra that would serve ...

Tonight is the First Day of Av, which initiates a nine-day semi-mourning period that culminates in the Ninth of Av. During that period, merr...

After the initial IDF campaign to delegitimize the IDF soldier Gaza testimonies , some of the Israeli human rights groups are speaking out ...

Breaking the Silence has posted the booklet of soldier testimonies in English here Here is also the link http://www.shovrimshtika.org/o...

I promised a testimony a day until Tisha B'Av. Today is about vandalism, not looting. There has been ample testimony of vandalism. I blo...

Cooler heads have prevailed, and the Haredi mother who allegedly starved her youngest child, has been released from police detention and sen...

When the message of Israeli war crimes in Gaza was delivered yesterday in the form of a 110-page booklet of IDF soldiers' testimonies, t...

The illegal use of white phosophorus weapons by the IDF in Operation Cast Lead has now been confirmed in one of the soliders' testimonie...

On a day when the Loonies of the Right (David Bernstein, Mark Regev, AIPAC) went after Human Rights Watch (for good rebuttals, see here and...

Dear Readers: In the Jewish calendar, we have entered a semi-mourning period known as the Three Weeks, between the 17 th of Tammuz, when th...

I have just finished reading "Soldiers' Testimonies from Operation Cast Lead," Gaza 2009, a 110- page booklet that will be mak...

Ask any Israeli why there have been no suicide bombings in the last few years, and the answer will be clear – the "security barrier...

Last Shabbat I went to a memorial event for the journalist Amos Elon that was announced for Saturday Night, but began at 5 pm. In fact, the ...

Veteran Haaretz reporter Amos Harel had a long article today about the settlements and their outposts. How appropriate that in this period o...

Has this story been denied yet? Here I am, sitting in the National Library, waiting for the 17 th of Tammuz Fast to end, and this is what I...

You've got to be taught To hate and fear, You've got to be taught From year to year, It's got to be drummed In your dear little ...