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Jun 18, 2019, 10:00 PM

“Naela and the Intifada” — This review may not be what you expect

I had no idea what I was walking into when I parked my car on the street near Al-Midan Theatre in Haifa and started to look for the entrance to the small mall in which it is housed. I...

Mar 3, 2019, 9:45 PM

Palestinian Authority Residents Fed Up

Photo of riot police taken by my anonymous source.

Early this afternoon, a storm started brewing in Ramallah in the Palestinian Authority. But this is not the kind of winter storm one expects. This is the kind of storm in which regular people take to the streets to...

Feb 13, 2019, 4:54 PM

Is This How Our Government “Protects” Israel Against BDS?

Slightly Modified Screenshot from item on Amnesty Israel Twitter Feed.

Why is there even an argument about this? Why does Israel need to make a law saying that organizations working within the country that promote boycotts against her and, ultimately, her destruction, can be denied access to the public...

Feb 4, 2019, 9:54 AM

Fighting Terror by Draining Their Stash

Well, if not their stash, then the virtual pipes through which their stash flows on its way to their computers, after which it is impossible to touch. In our modern digital age, money no longer has to be kept...

Jan 25, 2019, 10:27 AM

Either Israel Is an Occupier or She Is Not! Get Your Story Straight, People

A street in Jenin, 2011. (Almonroth [CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons0

Developers of the website, Welcome to Palestine, seem to regard Israel as occupying what now falls under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority. On their "About" page, they write : Despite arriving with a balanced understanding of the conflict, only...

Jan 20, 2019, 11:15 AM

McJesus — What was really going on?

Was a political ploy to manipulate the new mayor at the core of what looked like an attack on artistic expression?

Dec 15, 2017, 12:18 PM

Trump’s Jerusalem Speech Is Closing Down Co-Existence Groups in Israel

A supposed co-existence organization is illogically blaming President Trump's overdue recognition of Jerusalem as the historical and contemporary capital of Israel as the reason for cancelled programming in Israel. First let me tell you a bit about the Parents...

Jul 21, 2017, 2:57 PM

Khawaled Access Road: Discrimination or Common Sense?

On July 19, the Knesset Special Committee for Distributive Justice and Social Equality heard pleas from the northern Israeli Bedouin town of Khawaled calling out for an access road. The Jerusalem Post reported on the dramatic success of the...

Jun 22, 2016, 9:41 AM

Kenya Warns Israel About The ICC — Foe Not Friend

Kenyan Legal Advisor at the Executive Office of the Deputy President of Kenya, Dr. Korir Sing'Oei has a warning for Israel regarding the International Criminal Court. He was an invited speaker at the 2nd Annual Shurat HaDin conference held...

May 24, 2016, 9:37 AM

This scares me more than Trump or Hillary

Scared about Trump becoming the next president? Scared about Hillary? Here is what scares me more than either of them - the American student! We hear so much about BDS and antisemitism on American (and Canadian) campuses. And we hear...

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Sheri Oz, owner of www.israeldiaries.com, is a retired family therapist exploring mutual interactions between politics and Israeli society.

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