This week on the Tribal Update, the weekly satirical newscast produced by Latma, the Hebrew-language satirical media criticism website I run, we bring you an interview with one of the European Muslims who traveled to Syria to fight in the war there. We also bring you an interview with a senior member of the gay community to discuss Gay Pride…
By all accounts, Shai Agassi, the founder and original CEO of Better Place, Israel’s bankrupt electric car company, is an extremely charismatic man. His charm had politicians, venture capitalists, celebrities and non-automotive industry reporters slobbering over him. Everyone wanted to get their picture taken with the man who would transform Israel’s auto industry into the first electric powered industry in…
Here’s my speech from the J Post conference in New York that took place on April 29.
his week on the Tribal Update, the weekly satirical newscast produced by Latma, the Hebrew-language satirical media criticism website I run, we bring you an interview with Turkish Minister of Justice and Police to discuss the situation in Turkey. And we bring you a public service announcement to the Iranian voter. Enjoy! Latma is funded by donations from private individuals…
US Secretary of State John Kerry looks like a bit of an idiot these days. On Monday he announced that he will be returning to Israel and the Palestinian Authority and Jordan for the fifth time since he was sworn into office on February 1. That is an average of more than one visit a month. And aside from frequent…
This week on the Tribal Update, the weekly satirical newscast produced by Latma, the Hebrew-language satirical media criticism I produce, we bring you an interview with Israel’s PR guru do discuss the government’s decision to leap into action and defend Israel from France2’s libelous report which claimed that IDF forces killed a Palestinian boy named Muhammad a-Dura in…2000. We also…
The threats emanating from Syria have become downright frightening. For the past several days, Home Front Defense Minister Gilad Erdan has been warning repeatedly that it is certain that Israeli population centers will be hit by Syrian ballistic missiles and that we have to be prepared for the worst-case scenarios, including Scud missile-launched chemical weapons attacks on Israel’s metropolitan centers.…
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula has been sitting in a US federal prison in Texas since his photographed midnight arrest by half a dozen deputy sheriffs at his home in California for violating the terms of his parole. As many reporters have noted, the parole violation in question would not generally lead to anything more than a court hearing. But in Nakoula’s…
This week on the Tribal Update we bring you the Israeli media’s response to the scandals now flooding the White House. (In a word, the media here have completely ignored the story.) We also bring you an interview with a senior executive of Channel 10 – a station that exists only by racking up massive debt to the government. And…
In 2010, Cpl. Eleanor Joseph became the first female Arab combat soldier in the IDF. Joseph, a Christian Arab told Ma’ariv that her good luck charm is a drawing of the Star of David with the caption: “I have no other land, even when my ground is burning.” Her commander drew it for her. Joseph explained, “It is a phrase…