Oh no, no, no. This is not how one conducts successful advocacy. You do not answer moral questions regarding the occupation with factoids! It doesn’t help! Not that the Simon Weisenthal Center is any expert on moral clarity, but c’mon.
This is the thought process of a Jewish or non-Jewish student confronted with the ad campaign [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Israel Advocacy EPIC FAIL
February 27th, 2009 Filed under: Israel. 1 Comment
The myth that Arafat left Camp David as “no partner for peace” needs to die.
As I posted in the comments over at Jewschool:
That Arafat left Camp David with a blanket refusal and incited the intifada with the flick of a switch is the most popular lie in American and Israeli Jewry. We even know who’s responsible and talk about it in this week’s news. Yet the lie persists.
It’s the [...]
February 24th, 2009 Filed under: Israel. 0 Comments
Circumcision
It’s when you make a tike into a kyke.
Mazel tov, Miki.
February 23rd, 2009 Filed under: Humor and Judaism. 0 Comments
Isaiah, always a good source of quotes
Spent the past 15 minutes musing on Isaiah 1:27, “Zion will be redeemed with justice, and her returnees with charity.”
Wondering what that means for refugees, returnees to home lands, Jews and Palestinians…
February 22nd, 2009 Filed under: Musings. 0 Comments
Any love I have for the Jewish state is rooted in her prophets
Can you love a state? A set of policies and procedures manifested as a bureaucracy and office buildings, people in uniform, and budgets for garbage collection, school, roads? I argue you can love a set of principles. But you can’t love a state. And I’ve fallen in love with the principles of many Israelis I’ve [...]
February 19th, 2009 Filed under: Israel and Musings. 0 Comments
I want you to know about my birthday cause
The 25th is my 26th birthday, and I want you to know about my birthday cause.
I am the local Chapter Co-Chair and a national board member for Brit Tzedek v’Shalom. It’s the biggest pro-Israel, pro-peace grassroots org in the American Jewish community — 40,000+ supporters in 40 cities and growing!
Unabashedly speaking, I am good [...]
February 18th, 2009 Filed under: Musings. 1 Comment
Direction
I’m presently in DC, just having completed a two-day professional development retreat and am preparing for a board retreat tomorrow night. I’ve prayed at the Silver Spring Moishe House, I’m staying with my college best friend, and am very tired.
There’s all too much to blog about, what with Gaza aftermath, Hamas may release Shalit, Bibi [...]
February 14th, 2009 Filed under: Musings. 2 Comments
What a news morning; can’t I go back to bed?
On the way to the office, saw the NY Times front page story on the brutality of urban warfare in Gaza. Meanwhile on Haaretz, Hamas steals UN aid but says negotations progressing “positively” in exchange of Shalit for 75% opening of blockade. The Israeli media hububb over Lieberman as Kahanist and not-Kahanist-enough. And it turns [...]
February 4th, 2009 Filed under: Israel. 0 Comments
Waltz with Bashir “has to do with everyone who has been in a war here, which is everyone here”
A beautifully moving peice by Bradley Burston on Haaretz about Waltz with Bashir, the animated documentary film about the director’s search for his memories of the Second Lebanon War. He says,
I went to see “Waltz with Bashir” this week, not suspecting for a moment that the story it told would have anything to do with [...]
February 2nd, 2009 Filed under: Musings. 0 Comments
