Mark Ruffalo, actor and expert extraordinaire on the Arab-Israel conflict, doesn’t much care for Israel. He’s read online so much about its deplorable treatment of the Palestinians. Why shouldn’t he believe all these stories of Israeli “brutality”? Could so many Palestinians be lying? Of course they could. Muhammad says in a famous hadith that “war […]
Mark Ruffalo, Middle East Expert, Denounces Israel
Mark Ruffalo, an American actor, joins such profound experts on the Arab-Israeli conflict from the world of entertainment as musician Roger Waters and actress Vanessa Redgrave in his grasp of the matter, which has led to his deep antipathy toward Israel. His story is here: “Mark Ruffalo talks Palestinian issues, calls Israel a ‘kind of […]
Iranian Athletes Call On I.O.C. to Ban Iranian Athletes
The Islamic Republic recently executed the 27-year-old champion wrestler Navid Afkari. He had been tortured by the regime until he “confessed” to the murder of an Iranian intelligence officer. The real reason for eliminating Afkari was that in 2018 he had attended an anti-regime demonstration, protesting against the country’s economic degringolade. Because of his fame […]
A Terrible Idea: Selling F-35s to Qatar
The F-35 is an American Stealth fighter jet, considered to be top of the line, that has been sold only to close allies, including Israel. The United Arab Emirates has long desired to buy some F-35s; it began to express this desire six years ago, and now it looks as though the sale will at […]
Archeological Finds In Israel Undermine the ‘Palestinian’ Narrative
As is well-known, Palestinian leaders like to backdate – using their vivid oriental imaginations – the presence of the “Palestinian people” in “Palestine.” Mahmoud Abbas has frequently declared that the Palestinians are direct descendants of the Canaanites, who lived in the Middle East some 4000 years ago. He has made even more extravagant claims recently […]
Are Muslim Immigrants In Europe A ‘Boon To Taxpayers’?
The UN is trying to convince the countries of Europe that Muslim immigration is, taken all in all, a Good Thing. It may even prove, so it is being claimed, to be a “boon to taxpayers.” The story of one such effort in the U.K., is here. Record numbers of illegal immigrants crossing the English […]
Lebanon Agrees to Talk with Israel on Maritime Borders
For the last decade, Israel has been discovering huge undersea deposits of natural gas in the Tamar and Leviathan fields under the Mediterranean, and is now producing that gas both for its own use and for sale to Egypt and Jordan. Lebanon, meanwhile, has stood on the sidelines, needing to demarcate its maritime border with […]
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Tamimi?
Ahlam Tamimi is the photogenic Palestinian Arab woman, and murderer, who was the mastermind of the suicide bombing at the Sbarro Pizzeria in Jerusalem in 2001. She selected the place and time of the attack for maximum casualties (families with children, on an outing to have pizza), and drove the bomber to the site, where […]
Bribery and Murder Threats Still Spread the Faith of Islam
During the last 1,400 years, many non-Muslims converted to Islam to avoid death or a wretched existence as dhimmis. Bribery and murder, as instruments of conversion, still take place today, in Muslim lands as diverse as Iraq, Nigeria, and Pakistan. The story of these converions is here. It started with his father. As fighting and […]
An October Surprise?
Here’s an idea for an October Surprise that could transform the political landscape. It has nothing to do with the announcement of a coronavirus vaccine. Nor with Black Lives Matter. Nor with defunding the police. Nor with once-in-a-century wildfires and hurricanes that, in their intensity, happened to be just like those wildfires and hurricanes we’ve […]
Erdogan: ‘Jerusalem Has Been Our City For Thousands of Years’
Erdogan addressed the opening of the Turkish Parliament on October 1 with a ringing declaration that “Jerusalem Has Been Our City For Thousands of Years.” The “our” in “our city” seemed to refer now to the Turks, and now to the “Palestinian people.” The story is here. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday implied […]
Nerdeen Kiswani Fights for Palestine From the River to the Sea
Nerdeen Kiswani is a student at CUNY Law School who, upon seeing a young man wearing a sweatshirt with the logo of the IDF, told him she hated it and was going to set it on fire — and as she spoke, she held her flaming lighter out toward him. Take a look, from […]
France’s Macron Furious with Lebanese Politicians, Especially Hezbollah
French President Emmanuel Macron has been to Lebanon twice since the August 4 blast in Beirut. During his last visit, he read the Lebanese politicians the riot act, saying that they had to institute reforms before they could expect any aid from abroad. On September 28, he raged on television against the Lebanese political elite, […]
A Few Questions for Craig Considine
Craig Considine is a lecturer in sociology at Rice University who continues to call himself a Christian, though for years he has been a Defender of the Faith – that faith being Islam. For Considine, Islam is a religion of “love.” He doesn’t bother to try to engage with, or explain away, such Qur’anic verses […]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Backs Out of Speaking at a Memorial Service for Yitzhak Rabin
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez first accepted, and then reconsidered, and then turned down, an invitation to attend a memorial service for Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli prime minister who was killed by a far-right Israeli incensed at Rabin for being, in his view, much too accommodating to the demands of the Palestinians. The story of her change of […]
University of Toronto Law School Under Fire for ‘Rescinding’ Job Offer to Israel-Hating Academic
At the University of Toronto, acting on their own without consulting the Dean, several faculty members of a search committee did not only recommend a candidate for the job of director of the school’s International Human Rights Program – which was their prerogative – but did what they had no authority to do: they offered […]
An Israel-Hating Academic’s Obsession
At the University of Toronto Law School, a faculty committee recommended that Valentina Azarova be hired as the director of the school’s International Human Rights Program. The Dean of the Law School, Edward Iacobucci, disagreed with the committee’s recommendation and did not make the offer. That has led to a great contretemps, with the Dean […]
Update: Will Sudan Be Next to Normalize Relations with Israel?
In late-August I posted an article “Is Sudan Next?” where I discussed the possibility – the likelihood – that after the United Arab Emirates, the next Arab state to normalize relations with Israel was likely to be either the Sudan or Bahrain. At the time, most bets were on Bahrain, so naturally, wanting to go […]
Tell-Tale Toponyms at the New York Times
Elder of Ziyon has a piece on the New York Times’s slightly self-conscious use of the word “Judean” in a story about an ancient species of date – that grew in Judea 2000 years ago – that has been brought back to edible life by Israeli scientists. The story is here. The New York Times […]
In Libya, Fayez al-Sarraj Announces He Will Quit, Upsetting Erdogan
In Libya, Turkish troops and more than 20,000 Syrian mercenaries brought in by Turkey have turned the tide in favor of the Government of National Accord (GNA), ending the 14-month siege of Tripoli by the LNA and pushing General Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) forces eastward, all the way to Sirte. The two sides — […]