This week on The Tribal Update, the news satire show brought to you every week by Latma, the satirical Hebrew-language media criticism site I lead we bring you a wide variety of views and features. Among other goodies, we interview Demon Levy, Haaretz columnist about his surprising article in support of the Haredim. We also bring you and interview with…
On balance, Israeli society is extremely healthy. Unemployment is at record lows. At a time of global recession, the Israeli economy is growing steadily. Israeli Jewish women have the highest fertility rate in the Western world with an average of three children per woman. Education levels have risen dramatically across the board over the past decade with dozens…
In recent months, a curious argument has surfaced in favor of US President Barack Obama. His supporters argue that Obama’s foreign policy has been a massive success. If he had as much freedom of action in domestic affairs as he has in foreign affairs, they say, his achievements in all areas would be without peer. Expressing this view, Karen…
This week on the Tribal Update, the media satire show produced every week by Latma, we take a break from our regular program framework and give you a retrospective on 2011. Specifically, we reveal all the occasions in which Latma predicted the future. At a time when the major media organs in Israel and throughout the Western world get all…
We’ve received several hundred requests from viewers asking that we post the Christmas in Eurabia song with the accompanying introductory sketch. So here it is. Thanks to you, the song is well on its way to becoming a viral hit in the US and Europe. Please continue to spread it far and wide.
Many of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s supporters were stunned last week when IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz announced he was promoting Brig.-Gen. Nitzan Alon to major general and appointing him to serve as the next commander of the Central Command. Alon completed a two-year tour of duty as Judea and Samaria Division Commander in October. During his…
This week on the Tribal Update, the media satire television-on-Internet brought to you every week by Latma, the Hebrew-language satirical media criticism website I run we produced a special song for our Christian friends celebrating Christmas on Sunday. Here is the song. And here is our entire show that includes an interview with a senior IDF commander…
For decades New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman balanced his substantively anti-Israel positions with repeated protestations of love for Israel. His balancing act ended last week when he employed traditional anti-Semitic slurs to dismiss the authenticity of substantive American support for Israel. Channeling the longstanding anti-Semitic charge that Jewish money buys support for power-hungry Jews best expressed in…
I have read several appreciations of Hitchens written by conservatives and neo-conservatives who knew him and appreciated his transformation from a man of the left into a man of the right since the US invasion of Iraq. All of these essays, like the generous conservative swooning over Hitchens for the better part of the last ten years makes me…
In the wake of Friedman’s latest anti-Semitic slander of Israel and the American people who support it, and in the wake of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s decision to tell him and his paper to take a hike I think it is appropriate to repost Latma’s song for Fiedman from five months back. It is as true today as it was…