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A section of Israel's separation wall in the West Bank. (Activestills.org)

The worst rebuttal to the Apartheid analogy (part II)

A blogger for Times of Israel has published a post titled “Israel is an Apartheid State.” As always, it got many people upset. Another blogger, Varda Epstein, posted a response which deserves “the worst argument on Israel/Palestine” of the month award (and strong candidate for the all-time record). Before casually blaming ALL Arabs for “constantly and overwhelmingly…

By Noam Sheizaf June 28, 2013

Labor: Netanyahu’s many Facebook fans are not from Israel

Earlier this morning, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted this uncharacteristically laconic message: The smug announcement was further drilled home by a press release from the Prime Minister’s Office, which gushed at the prime minister surpassing the 200,000 “likes” bar, noted opponents trail “far behind” and crowned the prime minister’s Facebook page as…

By Dimi Reider April 9, 2012

Oops: Unemployment in Israel ‘leaps’ by 20% overnight

The Central Bureau of Statistics announced it is changing its criteria for calculating unemployment. On the new list: Arab communities. Off the list: IDF conscripts who are now considered “employed” . The result: A quantum leap of 20 percent. This isn’t even an April Fools joke. I wish it was. Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics…

By Dimi Reider April 1, 2012

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The worst defense of Zionism in history

An op-ed on Ynet, Israel’s most popular news site, explains how to address anti-Zionism: Zionism will only cease being demonized in the politically correct corners of the West once our schools and film industry cease to demonize colonialism. The politically correct depiction of the colonialist as a racist and covetous brute must give space to…

By Noam Sheizaf March 6, 2012

Jewish kindergartens to start each week with national anthem

The recent spike in ultra-nationalist legislation is by no means confined to MKs and grand issues like separation of powers and freedom of speech: The Education Ministry has released new regulations stipulating that beginning next year, all kindergarten teachers in the Jewish sector will start each new week with raising the flag and singing the…

By Dimi Reider July 13, 2011

Who framed pilot-turned-activist Yonathan Shapira?

“A concerned citizen” and a radical rightwing MK claim to have found in trash bin an air force helmet and some secret documents belonging to Yonatan Shapira, a former IDF pilot and one of the most recognized anti-occupation activists Israeli news site Ynet is running today an exquisitely odd story, seemingly incriminating former Air Force pilot and prolific…

By Dimi Reider July 12, 2011

Information ministry welcomes “Israel in therapy” video

Yesterday we covered here a masterpiece of self-defeating propaganda showing “Israel” as a distressed and paranoid young woman suspicious of people trying to help her and having flashbacks to edited and censored videos of the IDF raid on the marmara. While the initial suspicion was that this was a trailer for Ami Kaufman’s Izzie series,…

By Dimi Reider July 7, 2011

“Sexy Israel” getting treatment for flotilla nightmares

(Tlatest update on the role of the Information Ministry can be found here) I’m somewhat of a fool for excruciatingly bad Hasbara videos, but this one surely takes the cake: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKSXXuZRPNM&feature=channel_video_title[/youtube] From this video, we learn “Israel” is massively paranoid, even somewhat hysterical, believing edited second-hand evidence from biased sources (IDF spokesman’s video from the…

By Dimi Reider July 6, 2011

How not to forget your kid in parked car? Keep them near your phone!

There’s quite the life-saving item in Yedioth Ahronoth today. It begins with some sobering information: 127 babies and toddlers were left by forgetful parents in parked cars in Israel in the past three years; two of these children died. But then the paper proceeds to offer the following advice on how to avoid leaving your…

By Dimi Reider June 24, 2011