Nurit Dekel, at The Blogs

May 6, 2020, 11:02 PM

This week, as every year, a remembrance ceremony was held in Amsterdam for Dutch casualties of WWII, and other wars. Due to the CoVid-19 epidemic, the ceremony was held without members of the public, in the central square of...

Feb 24, 2020, 12:51 PM

Ambiguous Red South

End of February 2020. We are heading south, to one of the shows of the Darom Adom ‘Red South’ Festival. The show will take place in the Eshkol Regional Council's show hall. One of the most...

Nov 12, 2019, 3:38 PM

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Dispatch from a bomb shelter somewhere in Israel

Illustrative. A police sapper inspects a house in the southern Israeli town of Netivot on November 12, 2019, following a rocket attack from Gaza City. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

A day under rocket attacks, driving between home and work, and praying not to get hit en route

Aug 19, 2019, 4:12 PM

Jew hatred and pragmatics: Zionism as a hate movement

Originally, Zionism used to express the desire of the Jewish people to live in the Land of Israel, in an independent Jewish state. Today, after the establishment of the State of Israel, the term refers more to the support...

Jul 21, 2019, 8:36 AM

Jew Hatred and Pragmatics: Jews and Murder

I herein continue what I have started two posts ago – analyzing one of many anti-Semitic signs containing the eight "accusations" that put the State of Israel, at least according to BDS’s activists, at the top of the international...

Jul 9, 2019, 12:04 PM

Antisemitic Pragmatics: What’s behind “Free Palestine” ?

"Free Palestine." One of the most common slogans of anti-Semitic organizations around the world. A slogan with which many people refer to the State of Israel, the only existing Jewish state, blaming it with racism, apartheid, and the like....

Jun 30, 2019, 3:13 PM

Jew hatred and pragmatics: The State of Israel and Apartheid

Frustrated people tend to project their own frustration onto others, turning their frustration into some form of hatred. There are many ways to distort reality, so that a potential audience will always receive a message of hatred, without using...

Jun 25, 2019, 9:38 AM

Antisemitic Pragmatics: Jew hatred and pigs

More than two years ago, in one of my routine walks in the streets of Amsterdam, I first encountered a Dutch citizen sitting on a mobile scooter with a sign on his backrest: "Beware of the Zionist version of...

May 21, 2019, 8:01 PM

Israeli Hebrew – a story of a language (3)

The miracle of a language birth Did those children, who were in fact our great grandparents, really speak Hebrew? Well, not exactly. They spoke a language in which Hebrew words were embedded, but its grammar was the same grammar that their...

Feb 12, 2019, 3:21 PM

Israeli Hebrew – a story of a language (2)

Israeli Hebrew and its native speakers At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Zionist activists began to call for Hebrew as the language of speech in the Land of Israel. At that time,...

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Holding a PhD degree in linguistics from the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, I am the Principal Linguist in an Israeli Hi-Tech company, dealing with artificial intelligence. I have a previous experience in writing several guest-columns for various Jewish journals in the US and Canada. I am based in Israel.

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