2016

https://forestrain.wordpress.com/2016/05/15/the-most-israeli-moment-of-the-year/There is a moment that occurs once a year in Israel. The entire country focuses on it, there is even an official, national ceremony to recognize it – the momentous yet somehow quiet transition between […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/05/iran-both-saves-jews-and-denies-shoah.htmlTo mark Palestinian Nakba Day,  a second contest of 150 anti-Israeli cartoons from 50 countries has opened in the Iranian capital Tehran. Seth Frantzman in the Jerusalem Post  points out the paradox – while denying […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2016/05/15/israels-democracy-subverted-and-undermined/In a stunning, recently aired interview, the former Director of the Mossad Meir Dagan, posthumously took to the airwaves to slam Binyamin Netanyahu for bringing about the Iran deal. Even the interviewer, not known for […]

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/jNPo/~3/s5x0GWk4HqM/15-may-16-putting-their-nakba-in.html Image Source Israelis joyously and thankfully marked 68 years of renewed independence, massive economic advancement and attainment on all fronts this past Thursday. The Palestinian Arabs call the same process “catastrophe“. Much of the […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/05/four-arrested-after-jews-airlifted-from.html Here’s a story that’s a few weeks old now, and we hope it had a happy ending: Sandy Rashty of the Jewish Chronicle reports on the arrest of four people in Yemen in the wake […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2016/05/david-singer-un-security-council-moves.htmlBy Daphne Anson   Here’s the latest article by Sydney lawyer and international affairs analyst David Singer. He writes: Image credit:venturesafrica.com Ending the plague of anonymity on the Internet seems closer to fruition following moves […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/05/moroccan-jews-protest-for-occupied.htmlUsing the Jews as an instrument of foreign policy is not a new strategy for Morocco – it bolsters the legitimacy of the royal family in the eyes of the West. But rarely has the […]

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/jNPo/~3/WwRo-cCXPik/13-may-16-case-of-ongoing-gullibility.html A written question, asked in the British parliament’s House of Lords ten days ago on a subject that ought to be getting much more attention, has just been answered. The subject: Overseas aid and […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/05/polyglot-jew-wrestles-with-identity.html Eloquent article in Lilith magazine by a Sephardi Jew from Spanish-speaking Morocco about her ‘identity crisis’, caused by speaking too many European languages. One detects more than a hint of post-colonial guilt here, yet multilingualism […]