HELP! I am walking into a minefield. I can’t help myself. The minefield has a name: BDS – boycott, divestment, sanctions. I am often asked about my attitude towards this international movement, which was started by Palestinian activists and has spread like wildfire throughout the world. The Israeli government now considers this movement a major … Read more
TheOccupationIs killingAll of us Stickers reading (in Hebrew) “The occupation is killingall of us” will be sent on demand. Please send an emailmessage with the address to which the stickers should besent and the quantity required. Published in Ha’aretz, 11/03/16
A FARMER comes to the big town for the first time. He visits the zoo and stands for hours transfixed before the cage of the kangaroo.”There is no such animal!” he keeps exclaiming. I must confess that I felt the same when I saw Donald Trump on TV for the first time and heard that … Read more
Two soldiers blunderedInto Qalandia.Extracting themRequired a veritable battle.An entire country blunderedInto a decades-long occupationWhich already claimedThousands of lives. Published in Ha’aretz, 04/03/16
HE APPEARED out of nowhere. Literally. The Israeli Police needed a new commander. The last one had come to the end of his term of office, several senior officers had been accused of molesting their female subordinates, one had committed suicide after being accused of corruption. So somebody from outside was indicated. When Binyamin Netanyahu … Read more
All overThe London Tube,Posters showing Israel:Occupier, oppressor.Furious callsTo the Mayor:“Smash the mirror!We don’t wantTo be reflected!” The Leibowitz Memorial Award ceremony to Israeliand Palestinian peace activists by Yesh Gvul will takeplace today, Friday, at 12.00, in the Tzavta hall,30 Ibn Gvirol, Tel Aviv. Published in Ha’aretz, 26/02/16
RIGHT AFTER the foundation of Israel, God appeared to David Ben-Gurion and told him: “You have done good by my people. Utter a wish and I shall grant it!” “I wish that Israel shall be Jewish, democratic and encompass all the country between the Mediterranean and the Jordan,” Ben-Gurion replied. “That is too much even … Read more
Palestinian journalistMuhammad al-QiqWas imprisonedWithout trial.His hunger strikeTo the verge of deathPuts the occupationOn trial. Published in Ha’aretz, 19/02/16
IT IS not easy to be an Arab in Israel. It is not easy to be a woman in Arab society. It is not easy to be an Arab in Israeli politics. And even less easy to be an Arab woman in the Knesset. Haneen Zuabi is all these together. Perhaps because of this she … Read more
Jews and ArabsZionists andAnti-Zionists,Associations, artists,Knesset Members.EveryoneAnd anyoneCan beThe next targetOf the witch huntOf Bibi & Co. Published in Ha’aretz, 12/02/16