An alternative but hopefully accurate way of seeing somethings as they might just be.
The Press complaints commission has decided that it is correct to say that Tel Aviv is the capital of Israel, not Jerusalem, and that the Guardian was correct to make a correction in these terms. The basis of the PCC’s decision seems to rest on the fact...
Read moreMy attention has been drawn to an op-ed that appeared in the Independent by a Yasmin-Alibhai-Brown. It is well critiqued by Simon Plosker of HonestReporting. ( http://honestreporting.com/ardent-zionists-v-enlightened-jews-an-assault-on-british-jewry/...
Read moreA lot of people are making a lot of noise about Ken Livingstone's tax avoidance and how this will impact on his prospects of election as mayor of London. I cannot understand how anyone could have voted for him even before all this tax noise began.
Read moreWhen it was that we were slaves The Pharaohs worked us to our graves When Moshe asked for our release The burden instead he bade: ‘Increase!’ So Moshe said ‘I won’t be vague Let us out or get a plague.’ There formed a cloudy rouge miasma The waterway...
Read moreTo the extent that people like George Galloway are able to be elected democracy is not a good thing.
Read moreYears ago at university certain students were subject to stereotyping. The typical engineering student wore shorts, a tee shirt, flip-flops and was not known for being articulate. Many were viewed as racist, beer drinking men. Drama students were understood...
Read moreThere are many difficult philosophical questions that have troubled thinkers for millennia. It took thousands of years before Xeno’s paradox was solved. A body in motion has to get half way before it gets to its destination and therefore should always...
Read moreRecently I saw a tweet from a government MP saying that the government was about to ‘clamp down’ on scrap metal theft. Now I personally am against scrap metal theft. It is also against my religion. Stealing anything has been taboo for my ancient and some...
Read moreThe current controversy over modesty in Beit Shemesh heralds the sounding of a rather anti-Semitic refrain, namely that the Ultra-orthodox want to turn Israel into another Iran. Even worse there are those who are said to perceive that growing ultra-orthodox...
Read moreMrs Clinton has apparently bemoaned the declining state of Israel’s democracy. One should be very reluctant to take issue with someone who even acknowledges that Israel IS a democracy in the first place. Israel is beleaguered by all manner of accusations...
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