The Magnes Zionist

I have even less time to write now than I did when I wrote the below two years ago. But in the I/P conflict things rarely change and usually...

Haaretz is reporting that the IDF has declared the West Bank villages of Bil'in and Ni'lin closed military areas for the next six m...

I started translating the address delivered at the Sheikh Jarrah demonstration Saturday Night by activist Sarah Beninga, but I was beaten to...

The print edition of Haaretz on Friday told the fascinating tale of how three philosophy students, Asaf Sharon, Avner Inbar, and Avichai Sh...

Around five thousand demonstrators protested the eviction of Arab families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jer...

  Readers of this blog have been informed of the weekly protests in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem/Al-Quds against the ev...

February 25 has been proclaimed Open Shuhada Street Day by international activists who wish to focus attention on the plight of Palestinians...

That seems to be the thinking behind the Israeli government's endorsement of legislation that will require human rights NGOs in Israel (...

What a week! Naomi Chazan and the New Israel Fund are attacked by an Israeli right wing Zionist student group that last summer protested aga...

-- Nu, so Yankel, did you read Haaretz this morning? -- Who reads Haaretz any morning? It's full of unsubstantiated propaganda -- Wait...

In this blog I have never given my own personal opinion of the conclusions of the Goldstone Report. So here it is, in brief. First, I see t...

No, the headline is not an error. I promised my readers, when I wrote my " ad hominem screed " against Prof. Alan Dershowitz...

The Independent has just published a story that was to have been published by Israel's Yediot Aharonot last summer, but was dropped, ...

The Gaza Operation last year is a war of conflicting narratives. No, I don't mean the Palestinian narrative vs. the Israeli narrative. O...

Last summer I published a post in which I charted the different stages of Israel's cover-up of the illegal use of white phosphorus in th...

Harvard Prof. Alan Dershowitz, if memory serves me correctly, once said that the purpose of an attorney is to win a case, or if you wish, to...

For the original site, click here   Female soldiers break their silence Six years after first collection of Breaking the Silence te...