Israel is today in the throes of a powerful backlash against the Knesset’s decision last week to establish a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the foreign funding of Israeli NGOs that engage in political warfare against the state. Opposition leader Tzipi Livni claimed on Tuesday that the commission shows that “Israel today is deteriorating and abusing the very values…
On Sunday, the southern Sudanese began voting on a referendum to secede from the Republic of Sudan and establish their own sovereign nation. By all accounts, they will soon secede from the Arab, Islamic country and form an independent African, Christian and animist state. The consequences of their actions will reverberate around the world. This week’s referendum takes…
On Sunday December 19, the self-proclaimed “Israeli human rights” group B’Tselem disseminated a shocking story to the local and international media. B’Tselem claimed that the previous day Palestinian shepherd Samir Bani Fadel was peacefully herding his sheep when he was set upon by a mob of Israeli settlers. He alleged that these kippah-clad Israelis drove up in a car and…
This week at The Tribal Update, the television-on-Internet produced by Latma, the Hebrew-language media satire website I run, we present Pallywood’s latest smash-hit – “Warm Crimes at Bil’lin.” Our co-anchor Elhanan has a nightmare, and Ronit’s nightmare scenario unfolds in the studio as the historian Shaldag Borochov analyzes the Left’s analogy between Israel and Nazi Germany. Here’s the entire…
I say a prayer for Jonathan Pollard’s freedom every Friday night when I light Shabbat candles. I understand that today he is very ill. He has suffered long enough. Please put him in your prayers and please ask President Barack Obama to commute his sentence.
Below is a terrific video produced by Stand With Us at UCLA. I think it actually should make us all hopeful. The fact is that these students don’t know anything, which means that if we reach them, we can teach them.
This week we were informed that Latma has won the 2011 Media Criticism Award presented by Israel Media Watch. Latma was chosen from among a field of eminently deserving candidates in a vote open to the public. Not only did we win, we won by a landslide! According to Israel Media Watch President Meir Rozen, there were 4,600…
The Israeli Left was once an optimistic place. But that is no longer the case. It once promised peace and happiness. But that is no longer the case. Today the Left is marked by equal doses of doom and gloom, irrationality and delusion. It operates in a closed universe in which reality has no place and opposing views are…
This week on the Tribal Update, the television-on-internet show produced by Latma — the Hebrew-language media satire website I edit we have a jam packed program full of the sort of witty, biting, funny current affairs satire you have come to love! This week’s show is longer than usual. We feature Peace Now’s legacy. We present the dilemmas of…
On January 15 the UN’s Special Tribunal for Lebanon is scheduled to issue indictments against a number of Hizbullah operatives for the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri in February 2005. All of Lebanon and much of the region is waiting in suspense that grows with each passing day. The news that Hizbullah would be fingered by…