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Abbas Unbound

January 26, 2018 00:11:51

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says Jews have no historic links to the Holy Land, Zionism was a European Plot, and that Ben Gurion was in cahoots with Nazis. What the hell do we do with that?

Decaffeinated to Death?

January 21, 2018 0:10:02

Is the shuttering of literary hangout coffee shops in Tel Aviv a sign that Israeli culture is deteriorating? Or is it time for Chicken Little to switch to decaf?

“Selfie in Auschwitz”

January 20, 2018 00:08:28

A viral Israeli hip-hop video about Auschwitz? Can satire go past transgressive to just plain icky?

In Praise of Progressive Populism

January 19, 2018 00:09:12

Can leftist Bernie-Sandersian or Jeremy-Corbynian populism in Israel finally break Benjamin Netanyahu’s hold on Israeli politics?

Rachael Ray’s Rapine Recipes

January 14, 2018 00:08:09

Rachael Ray tweets that hummus is Israeli and is immediately flamed until she herself is golden brown. Can cuisine be colonialist?

Pascal’s Meteorology

January 13, 2018 00:08:54

Israel’s Minister of Agriculture sponsors a mass prayer vigil at the Western Wall to fight a four year drought. The move works – record rains immediately fall – but is that good government?

UNRWA ShmUNRWA

January 11, 2018 00:13:52

Should the very job description of the UN agency that provides aid to Palestinians be revisited and changed?

Now That’s Israeli!

January 7, 2018 00:15:31

We weigh in on a tricky question: “What is most Israeli?”

Linguaphobia

January 6, 2018 00:11:23

White-on-black Arabic billboards go up around Israel and some Jews freak out. What accounts for their fears of one of the country’s two official languages?

Likud’s Settlement-Schizoid New Year’s Resolutions

January 4, 2018 00:13:41

Likud ministers vote in the morning to approve a deal with Europe that boycotts settlements, and the Likud Central Committee votes in the evening to annex settlements: What accounts for this settlement-schizoid behavior?