11 January 2012
A prominent Israeli professor at the University of Haifa, Arnon Sofer, is urging the government to act fast to ethnically cleanse Palestinian Bedouins lest Israel be “destroyed” by them. Read more about Professor of Hate: Israeli "scholar" urges ethnic cleansing of Bedouins
10 January 2012
Today Palestinians attempted to drive on the road from Jericho in the Jordan Valley in the Israeli occupied West Bank, up to Ramallah. As many of the roads in the occupied West Bank are reserved for the exclusive use of Jewish settlers, Palestinians found themselves violently blocked, and then arrested by Israeli occupation forces. Read more about Video: "Think of the crimes you are doing to the people" - protestors challenge Israeli road apartheid
10 January 2012
One of the main purposes of Israel’s international student debate team is hasbara – propaganda – for the state, explains the team’s coach after a recent victory. Read more about Israel's student debate champions are "hasbara" agents for the state, says their coach
9 January 2012
Under attack from Republicans for supposedly not being pro-Israel enough, US President Barack Obama has been doing all he can to prove that he is indeed the most pro-Israel president in history. His surrogates have been boasting, for example, that on his watch, US military aid to Israel has reached “unprecedented levels.” Read more about Are Obama supporters playing up Jewish religion of new White House chief to appease pro-Israel groups?
9 January 2012
It seems the Obama administration will pass up no opportunity to demonstrate its favoritism for Israel and its petty vindictiveness and hostility towards Palestinians. Read more about Vindictive States of America: After cutting funds to Palestinian Sesame Street, US officials make public visit to Israeli version
8 January 2012
A video and written account shows two Israelis, “Shai” and “Doron” being subjected to the kind of abuse by Israeli soldiers more usually reserved for Palestinians. Read more about Video: Israelis arrested in Nabi Saleh subjected to "Palestinian" treatment by occupation soldiers
6 January 2012
Sarah Wildman, columnist for the International Herald Tribune and PBS and contributing editor to the Forward takes issue with the increasingly promiscuous accusation of “anti-Semitism” against critics of Israel. Read more about Will outraged liberals ever notice that Palestinians exist? A comment on Sarah Wildman piece in Forward
5 January 2012
Yesterday I wrote about a program run by the National Union of Israeli Students (NUIS) to pay Israeli college students $2,000 to spread hasbara – propaganda favorable to Israel – on social networking sites. This raised a further question: who pays for this and what role do Israel’s government and other organizations play in this use of students to deliver propaganda? Read more about Israel's "pretty face": How National Union of Israeli Students does government's propaganda dirty work
4 January 2012
Israel’s national students union has launched a program to pay Israeli university students $2,000 to spread pro-Israel propaganda online for 5 hours per week from the “comfort of home.” Read more about Israeli students to get $2,000 to spread state propaganda on Facebook
2 January 2012
The United States is subsidizing an all-expenses paid sushi-making courses for Israeli soldiers while Congress cuts a vital nutrition program for low-income infants at home. Read more about While America shuts down fire houses, cuts infant nutrition, US subsidizes Israel army sushi courses