Izzy-Pal Scrabble, originally uploaded by Kung Fu Jew 18. Losing at Scrabble to a Haaretz journalist, an Al-Jazeera journalist, and the girlfriend — all Canadian. The blog is broken, this is a test post from Flickr. Haitus to end as soon as I get WordPress advice. (Got any?)
Archive for August, 2010
Brief twitter statement on Eden Abergil’s “Abu Ghraib” Facebook pics
Since I don’t have time to really blog on this today, my twitter statement is below. It is still interesting to me that Israelis are so outraged, considering Abergil’s pics are so tame. They and I live in alternate realities. 3 minutes ago When I ran Breaking the Silence’s US tour in 2008, there were [...]
Aug 17th, 2010 Israel 0 Comments
Morissa Golden, haKalah #danandris
Morissa Golden, haKalah #danandris, originally uploaded by Kung Fu Jew 18.
Aug 15th, 2010 General 0 Comments
Dan Sieradski’s tisch @mobius1ski
Dan Sieradski’s tisch @mobius1ski, originally uploaded by Kung Fu Jew 18. Mother, son, and father.
Aug 15th, 2010 General 0 Comments
No love for Im Tirtzu’s spoof of NIF campaign site
The New Israel Fund launched a Hebrew campaign in Israel — Lo Nistom ha Peh! (“We will not shut up!”) — attacking the right wing for trying to cut funding and outlaw civil society work. And with predictable antagonism, Im Tirtzu set up a spoof site repeating the same accusations that got them in trouble [...]
Aug 11th, 2010 General 0 Comments
Apologies for delays due to moving
I will be back blogging soon. But I’m always micro-blogging on Twitter.
Aug 9th, 2010 General 0 Comments
ACRI’s top 14 anti-democratic Knesset bills
I wrote a report on the state of Israeli civil rights for Jewschool late last December and here is the professional mid-year 2010 report by Israel’s equivalent of the ACLU, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI). I admire ACRI’s staff greatly and am very privileged to work with them personally on several projects. [...]
Aug 6th, 2010 Israel 0 Comments