Every few months, we are presented with media reports about Jewish women rescued from their Muslim husbands in the Palestinian Authority or within Israel. The stories are always similar. The women were tortured by their husbands, often locked in their homes or under constant guard by members of their husbands’ families. Either with or without the help of their…
This week on The Tribal Update, the television-on-Internet show produced by Latma – the Hebrew-language media satire website I run, we bring you the “first missile attack” in Israel after a long period of quiet. We bring you the logical conclusion of Israel’s fixation with missile defense. We bring you the dangerous infiltration of religious Jews into key positions in Israeli society. And…
A new Middle East is upon us and its primary beneficiary couldn’t be happier. In a speech Monday in the Iranian city of Kermanshah, Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Politburo Chief General Yadollah Javani crowed, “Iran’s pivotal role in the New Middle East is undeniable. Today the Islamic Revolution of the Iranian nation enjoys such a power, honor and respect in…
Here are two films that were sent to me today about the plight of women in the Muslim world The first is about gender apartheid in Iran. The second is a challenge to the media to report about the plight of women throughout the Muslim world. They are both important and I urge you to distribute them to your…
It was a stunning moment of moral clarity. As the South Vietnamese refugees clambered onto rickety boats in the South China Sea to escape the victorious Communists, the American Left that orchestrated the US defeat through a sustained campaign of propaganda and fake calls for peace stood silent. As Pol Pot, the “progressive” dictator tortured and murdered a third…
On Wednesday night, Israelis received our first taste of the new Middle East with the missile strikes on Beersheba. Iran’s Palestinian proxy, the local branch of the Muslim Brotherhood known as Hamas, carried out its latest war crime right after Iran’s battleships entered Syria’s Latakia port. Their voyage through the Suez Canal to Syria was an unadulterated triumph for…
This week on The Tribal Update, the television-on-Internet show produced by Latma – the Hebrew-language media satire website I run, we bring you the world premiere broadcast of the Arab democracy anthem. It is sung by the Egyptian MInister of Conspiracy Theories Halil Majnoun, the Palestinian Minister of Uncontrollable Rage Tawil Fadiha and Tunisian revolutionary Daoud Shufuni. We also…
On Sunday night Latma was awarded Israel Media Watch’s Abramowitz Award for Media Criticism. It was a terrific ceremony. Most of the Latma crew was present. Here is a still photograph showing Minister of Communications Moshe Kahlon and IMW prize committee member Dalia Zelikovich giving us the prize. Here is an interview I did for Arutz 7 explaining Latma’s…
For better or worse, each passing day the Middle East is becoming more unstable. Regimes that have clung to power for decades are now being overthrown and threatened. Others are preemptively cracking down on their opponents or seeking to appease them. While no one can say with certainty what the future will bring to the radically altered Middle Eastern…