"Handmaids Tale" protesters marching in formation down Tel Aviv's Kaplan Street this afternoon, looking exactly like they do in the miniseries. Chilling.
So let me get this straight - Great Britain is the only European country with a stated policy of allowing the virus to circulate now - and it’s the only one from which the US is permitting flights. How does that make sense?
So apparently there's a Crossfit gym in Israel massively pissed they are being closed down to prevent COVID while yeshivas are permitted to stay open. So they are going to start teaching Torah during workouts.
I knew future Secretary of State's Antony Blinken's stepfather had a dramatic Holocaust survival story, but now learned that Alejandro Mayorkas, nominated for Homeland Security has a mother who survived the Holocaust. Big day for the 2nd generation.
If it's a "dark day for Israel" then Israel doesn't know it - this story is getting close to zero coverage in Israel. This is all about American Jews and the Democratic Party.
Representative Ilhan Omar is again under fire for her terrible comments concerning Israel. Jewish groups have just sent a petition to Speaker Pelosi asking her to remove Omar from Foreign Relations Committee. A dark day for Israel!
The folks defending a Democratic congresswoman’s anti -Semitic tweet by posting a Republican congressman’s anti-Semitic tweet missed the lesson in kindergarten where they taught that two wrongs don’t make a right.
Over 100 Israelis in front of US embassy in Tel Aviv, chanting “Black Lives Matter” and “No Justice, No Peace” showing solidarity with protests in the US calling for justice after the killing of George Floyd.
So if I’m a dual US-Israeli citizen who votes for left-wing parties in Israel and the Democrats in the States, can I now be accused of dual disloyalty?
We interrupt your regularly scheduled Trump impeachment hearings to announce that Netanyahu is expected to be indicted for crimes in two and a half hours.
This is Shlomit Malka, who joined Rotem Sela and Gal Gadot in calling out Likud’s racist words excluding Arab citizens. Bottom line: Israel’s hot models have more political courage than its “centrist” politicians.
People seem surprised by this, so let me repeat:
NOBODY IN ISRAEL IS TALKING ABOUT ILHAN OMAR. The Hebrew websites have articles on Luke Perry and Stormy Daniels - nada about anti-Semitism and congressional Democrats.
If it's a "dark day for Israel" then Israel doesn't know it - this story is getting close to zero coverage in Israel. This is all about American Jews and the Democratic Party.
The Dauphin de Netanyahu admitted (in a Twitter-exchange with
@haaretzcom
publisher no less) that in 2009 Netanyahu agreed to appoint a pliable attorney-general to shut down the money-laundering investigation against Lieberman. In other words Netanyahu jr accusing dad of a crime.
And I would imagine others are triggered by an anti-racism activist like
@lsarsour
branding Jews who were genuinely upset by the use of anti-Semitic tropes by a member of Congress as people who “incited a hate mob”
I am triggered by those who piled on Representative Ilhan Omar and incited a hate mob against her until she got assassination threats now giving condolences to our community. What we need you to do is reflect on how you contribute to islamophobia and stop doing that.
"What they are doing to the Palestinians is what they are doing to our Black brothers and sisters here,"
@RashidaTlaib
told the crowd.
"As you all are marching for freedom of Palestine, please know that you must be marching for everybody's freedom."
"It's all interconnected."
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said religious services conducted in churches, synagogues and houses of worship are “essential business” and therefore exempt from this stay-at-home executive order
In Israel: Make an online appointment with one click. Or just walk in with the HMO ID card that every citizen has. We’ve already vaccinated 75% of people over 60.
The process for *senior citizens* to get the vaccine in New York City involves a 51 step online questionnaire that includes uploading multiple attachments.
@lsarsour
Yes, in this case, democracy. Israel has checks and balances. This is going to the Supreme Court, which is expected to let the Ra'am-Balad party run. The only time a party has been disqualified in Israeli history was the barring of racist Jewish Rabbi Kahane from running.
Thought I’d offer a contrast to the terrible Belz wedding photos. In my neighborhood, Orthodox Jews hold their morning and event prayers socially distanced in public parks.
This follows on people who want to have music concerts or throw a big party inviting a couple to get married so they were allowed to have 250 attendees so it qualified as a "wedding"
1/ Some people have never heard of the Genesis Prize, which Natalie Portman declined to receive and so don't understand how it is linked to Netanyahu. It was created in 2012 with a $52 million endowment by the trio of Russian oligarchs that control Alfa Bank.
Sebastian Gorka calls masks "COVID burqas" and that wearing them represents "an act of submission". The perfect blend of Covidiocy, Islamophobia, and macho bullshit.
Here in Israel, not only were yeshivas raided and classes dispersed when infection rates were high- synagogues were SOLDERED shut so they couldn't be illicitly opened. Are you going to compare the Israeli government to Nazis, too?
Hi Mr. Mayor.
You gonna start rounding up Jews outside NYC as well? Because mass deportations tend to mess with my schedule.
You'd think by now, after 2,000 years, we Jews would be used to such treatment. And yet, it's still unsettling every time.
Any heads up is appreciated!
If you want to dismantle Israel, I can deal with that. But why not just say it out loud - and concisely? “Dismantle the Zionist project, dismantle the settler colonialist project” is so long and awkward ....
Temple U professor and BLM activist Marc Lamont Hill says the goal of Black Lives Matter is to "dismantle the Zionist project" and is "very explicitly embracing BDS"
No school in Beersheba, Ashdod, Ashkelon, or any of the towns closer to Gaza today. I grew up with fun “snow days,” these kids have frightening “missile days.”
Want to watch an extraordinary documentary to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day? You can see my colleague Judy Maltz’s film for free at this link. Thanks for telling the story,
@MaltzJudy
Of course the minute after I published what I thought was an original observation, someone told that the Greta trend was also reported in the Hebrew press in Time Out Tel Aviv. Lots more fun photos of Greta chiding in front of disposables in it:
@Yair_Rosenberg
says: The far left uses their hate for Israel as an excuse for their anti-Semitism, and the far right uses their love Israel as an excuse for THEIR anti-Semitism.
“All in all, the falafel meal tastes like if someone who hates falafel explained falafel to someone who’d never had falafel before, but went on to make falafel from scratch based on that description. It tastes like a punishment.”
You know what would be nice right now? A Prime Minister or a Foreign Minister or a Defense Minister who got in front of the cameras and spoke to the people when the country is attacked.
I’m confused. Wasn’t Naftali Bennett was supposed to come to the US to mourn 11 murders with Pittsburgh’s Jews, not campaign for the GOP in the midterms?
@ChemiShalev
@TheRaDR
Rabbi Ruttenberg: The "bromance" between Bibi and Trump hurts American Jews because Trump empowers white supremacists who are shooting up their synagogues.
#HaaretzYahadut
Many protests around Israel have been concluding with the blowing of a shofar. In Netanya, before performing the ritual, demonstrator Richard Isaac said that the rams horn was a traditional call to battle in times of threat and “this is one of those times.”
Honestly - I would love to retire the word “Zionism” into its proper historical context, and make both right and left discuss “Israel” - the actual, existing state - instead. Let’s talk reality, not ideology.
I'm no Linda Sarsour cheerleader - I've reported on her critically plenty - but is it logical to declare that any cause she raises money for is automatically legitimized? She raised money to repair a vandalized Jewish cemetery, does that taint the cemetery?
Follow up from Friday's column about HIAS chair Dianne Lob's takeover of the Conference of Presidents.
Antisemite Linda Sarsour held a fundraiser for HIAS.
Hope that folks abroad with Israeli citizenship who tweet constantly about how terrible the current government is will be flying to Israel to vote on April 9 and change the status quo. Because tweets don’t change anything.
After receiving that award in March, Lev Parnas visited us in Zion last July with Anthony Scaramucci where he attended a barbecue at Netanyahu donor's home along with Yair Netanyahu, Mike Huckabee and US ambassador David Friedman and his wife, Tammy
Governor of Michigan just called Israel a “progressive’s paradise” (Because of universal health care, paid parental leave, subsidized day care, etc)
#AIPAC2018
Ultra-Orthodox Jews protested and blocked roads in Jerusalem against what they see as violations of Sabbath.
Women responded by taking off their shirts, which promptly scared the religious protesters off. Story by neighbourhood correspondent
@tombateman
I just got Seth Rogen's response to the press release Jewish Agency head Buji Herzog sent out about their conversation - it will be in my article that will be published shortly. Spoiler alert - he's not happy about it.
Only in Israel: Morning TV features a woman in the south who last gave birth in 2014 under missile fire from Gaza, live in labor in Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon with another baby who will be born under fire.