Ironically, those opposing the current hegemonic ideas and political forces in the United States and Europe must develop a Marxist-style analysis of what has happened… Continue reading
The growing criticism of Barbie’s harmful influence on the consumption culture of young Iranians, the purchase of Barbie dolls triggers a psychological change in children and increases the influence of values that go against the values of Iranian-Islamic culture… Continue reading
I ran into an older, retired Israeli colleague who is a fine scholar in his field and agreed to have coffee in a nearby Tel Aviv cafe. In the ensuing conversation I learned some key things about why current intellectual and political discussion is such a wreck… Continue reading
A little man stood on the stage in a British university hall… Continue reading
The lingering issue ignored by the world community, particularly in light of this new diplomatic impasse between… Continue reading
The most common question — or remark — that I get from readers is to say that I’m wrong to talk about how Western policymakers… Continue reading
A reader asks me: But why is media reporting so bad (obviously with many honorable exceptions). I first wrote on this topic… Continue reading
Engaging in Middle East studies, as Lawrence says about putting your hand in a flame, hurts. The trick “is not minding that it hurts” and… Continue reading
Typical soul searching about the Tucson Shooting… Continue reading
Communist ideology is directly responsible for crimes against humanity and consciousness of the crimes against humanity committed by the Communist regimes throughout the continent must inform all European minds to the same extent as the Nazi regimes crimes did… Continue reading
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki expressed his satisfaction over the defeat of the US, England, and France at the World Cup in South Africa. Referring to the failure of the… Continue reading
Without their own players in South Africa, Israelis and Palestinians are embracing international squads with the sort of passion usually reserved for the home team… Continue reading
In a semi-satirical overview, Gil Hoffman, writes about which World Cup teams Israelis can root against or whom to cheer. Israelis are known as rabid soccer fans… Continue reading
Ooit was de BBC een nieuwszender met kwalitatief hoogstaande reportages en met onpartijdig achtergrond nieuws. Dat is al heel lang niet meer zo. De anti-Israël houding, die zo kenmerkend is voor de hedendaagse… Continue reading
On February 4, we created a download page. It was our aim to present documents for download that will help our readers to better understand the background… Continue reading
Rachel Ehrenfeld recently wrote an article about the financing of Islamic Terrorism and Jihad with Drug Money by the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Drug money is funding the Taliban’s increasingly numerous and bolder attacks in Afghanistan. Yet, the United States has… Continue reading
The Jewish community in Beirut keeps shrinking due to emigration and mortality. But the few Jews who remain hope to strengthen their ties by… Continue reading
Op NOS-teletekst lees ik het bericht dat Amnesty International scherpe kritiek heeft op het (wellicht aanstaande) boerka-verbod in België. Volgens Amnesty is het in strijd met de mensenrechten en de vrijheid van meningsuiting. Daarnaast gaat er een gevaarlijke precedentwerking vanuit… Continue reading
His dream, a Jewish state, would against all the odds be recreated in its ancient land, as he prophetically stated, less than five decades later… Continue reading
Dat de Nederlandse media erg eenzijdig en vol met vooroordelen en onjuistheden berichten over het Israëlisch-Palestijnse conflict, is ons wel bekend. Maar dat dit gegeven ook doordringt tot in… Continue reading
Buried deep in an obscure article about a Pakistani poet-politician is a clear presentation of one of the most powerful ideas shaping this contemporary world… Continue reading
Video post from Pat Condell about the Geert Wilders trial… Continue reading
It is difficult to turn on a TV or radio or pick up a newspaper these days, without finding some pundit or other deploring the dismal prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace or the dreadful living conditions of the Palestinians. Even supposedly neutral news reporters regularly repeat this sad tale… Continue reading
We typically think of terrorism as a political act. But sometimes it’s very personal. It wasn’t a government or a guerrilla insurgency that threw acid on this woman’s face in Pakistan. It was a young man whom she had rejected for marriage… Continue reading
In 1918, the last year of the first World War, more than 1500 jewish men and women in Palestine (the countries jewish population was then about 60.000) enlisted in an all-jewish volunteer fighting unit, the jewish legion. Five hundred of the volunteers were young women and girls who enrolled in an auxiliary service of the legion to provide medical care for the wounded soldiers. Modelled on the Red Cross, the service was given the name Magen David Adom (which means “Red Shield of David”, but also known as the Red Star of David). A selected number of its members served in military hospitals, and their emblem, the Red Shield of David, was recognized by the British Military Government. Shortly after the end of the War, the service was disbanded… Continue reading
Anastatica hierochuntica or maybe better known in the common name Rose of Jericho is a monotypic genus. The genus is a member of the family Brassicaceae (formerly Cruciferae), in the division Magnoliophyta of the class Magnoliopsida. The plant is a small gray annual herb that rarely grows above 15 cm high, and bears minute white flowers. It is a tumbleweed and resurrection plant… Continue reading
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Geert Wilders: “I don’t believe there is a moderate Islam”
Geert Wilders is pro-Israel and permanently indicating the dangers of Islam and the immigration from Muslim countries to Europe. He has made the struggle against Islamism and the ongoing Islamisation of the Netherlands… Continue reading