Monthly Archive: March, 2014

Israeli wines banned from Jewish Voice for Peace Seder

The Seattle Chapter of the radical Israel hating Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)  invites you to a very special Passover Seder.  They will be using their own one of a kind Passover Haggadah.  Highlights of… Continue reading

Another J Street shocker: J Street U members don terror t-shirt

The Tower Magazine is reporting that two members of J Street U’s Washington University chapter donned T-shirts celebrating convicted PFLP terrorist Leila Khaled at a J Street U sponsored campus event last year. On… Continue reading

US “We can’t stop Palestinian UN statehood bid” – and a new cartoon

As the Obama administration’s perfidious machinations in the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks continue, a new thinly veiled threat was revealed today.  Washington Post correspondent William Booth reports that the Obama administration, frustrated by the… Continue reading

My visit to anti-Israel events at St. Mark’s – part two

Guest writer Randy Kessler follows up on his recent column about anti-Israel events at Seattle’s St. Mark’s to ask some pointed questions. My recent column on  The Mike Report, about my experiences at… Continue reading

One lone Jew stands up for Israel at St. Mark’s

Guest writer Randy Kessler shares his experiences after attending a series of anti-Israel events at St. Mark’s Cathedral in Seattle, WA. I found out that Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church was hosting an “Israel/Palestine… Continue reading

Homecoming Celebration at Al-Quds University

Tablet Magazine and many other news sources today reported on a lively paramilitary display put on by the fun loving co-eds at Al-Quds University near Jerusalem this past Sunday. While one may be… Continue reading

This is (the real) Palestine

THE MIKE REPORT GIVES A HELPING HAND TO PALESTINE VIDEO EFFORT H/T Israellycool: As part of  the This Is Palestine exhibition in Dubai, “The biggest Palestinian cultural events ever staged”,  organizers have produced a… Continue reading

J Street tells Israel to back off on Jewish State demand – and a new cartoon

Jeremy Ben-Ami is a public relations genius, this is not hyperbole. The founder and current director of J Street led the very successful Ben-Or Communications, a pr firm back in the early 1990’s. It was there… Continue reading

Embrace Divestment and Win

Pro-Israel student groups need to stop playing defense but instead must flood every activist student government with resolutions to sanctions the world’s most egregious human rights offenders Academic boycott and divestment resolutions against… Continue reading

Palestinian plans to drill for oil means a new cartoon

ABC News reports today  that “Mohammed Mustafa, the Palestinians’ deputy prime minister for economic affairs, said the Palestinians were seeking proposals from international firms to explore and develop oil in the northern West… Continue reading

The J Street facade is crumbling… and a new cartoon

This has not been a good month for J-Street, the anti-Israel disguised as a pro-Israel lobbying organization. When J-Street first burst onto the scene back in 2008, many in the Jewish establishment did… Continue reading

JTNews omits anti-Israel ties of upcoming speaker

On March 5th of 2014, Seattle’s Jewish community newspaper, the JTNews published a story regarding an upcoming visit by Jewish Zen Master Bernie Glassman. The paper dutifully reported how Glassman “takes facets of his… Continue reading

We were Palestinians once… and young

JEWISH TRANSCRIPT ARCHIVE REVEALS A TIME WHEN PALESTINIAN MEANT JEWISH Seattle’s JTNews, formerly known as the Jewish Transcript has begun digitizing the newspaper’s archives, making the historic folios available to the public online.  Currently… Continue reading

Rockets pummel Israel; Abbas calls on Israel to “halt escalation” – this calls for a new cartoon!

This story from Agence France-Presse is the inspiration for today’s Mike Report cartoon. Israel pounded nearly 30 targets in Gaza overnight after militants fired A barrage of at least 70 rockets into the south,… Continue reading

Breaking News: Special report from Haaretz

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Northeastern anti-Israel group suspended for harassing pro-Israel students

Excerpts from anti-Israel website Mondoweiss: In a letter sent to the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter, the school’s Director of the Center for Student Involvement, Jason Campbell-Foster, offered a litany of… Continue reading

Ben Shapiro; Obama sabotages recognition of Israel as a Jewish State (and a new cartoon)

In a move guaranteed to further complicate the already tenuous negotiation between the Palestinian Authority and Israel, a  State Department spokeswoman has stated that recognition of Israel as a Jewish State is not a… Continue reading

Iranian weapons ship arrives in Eilat is our cartoon today

From Haaretz: Dozens of journalists, most of them foreign, will attend a weapons exhibit and press conference on Monday afternoon, in which the arms seized on the Klos C vessel will be displayed. Prime… Continue reading

Hamas accident inspires a new cartoon

The Iranian FARS news agency reports today that a Hamas field commander was killed in what it called  an accidental “internal explosion”. Medical sources said that nine others were wounded.  Hamas named 30-year-old Ibrahim Nagib… Continue reading

The arrogant racism of anti-Israel fanatics

Spend enough time with anti-Israel extremists, I am not talking about mere critics of Israel but the full time “Israel is an Apartheid State” crazies, and the racism and bigotry will eventually bubble… Continue reading