Elie Pieprz; Telling The Settler’s Side Of The Story
Elie Pieprz stood with his guests atop a water tower perched on a windswept hill, the highest point in the Samarian town of Beit-El. The tour he was giving to a group of… Continue reading
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Despite Opposition, Pro-Israel Film Premieres in Seattle To Large Crowd
Amidst a flurry of excitement and controversy rarely seen surrounding a pro-Israel film, The J Street Challenge had its Seattle premiere this past Wednesday evening at Congregation Ezra Bessaroth. While plans to screen the film,… Continue reading
Peter Beinart; Correct Diagnosis, Bad Prescription
Guest Post by Steven Hemmat. This past Thursday, I attended a talk given by Peter Beinart at the University of Washington Hillel. In addition to Hillel, the organizations J Street, the New… Continue reading
Display your Israeli flags
Mike Report reader David Shayne asked us to post the following message along with the photo below. Dan Yusberg, a family friend of the Schier family, parents of Gilad z”l, during an interview… Continue reading
While we buried our boys…
THE MORAL CHASM IS VAST Seattle – Even when they try to libel Israel, the Jewish state comes out smelling like a combination of roses and lilacs (with a sprinkle of cinnamon) compared… Continue reading
Teaching hate
H/T Israellycool . As the Jewish world continues to reel from the abduction of three innocent souls, three teenagers ripped from their families. Our Arab enemies are teaching their children to mock our sorrow,… Continue reading
Bringing out our best and worst
Two Seattle locals exploit kidnapping to promote anti-Israel agenda. Times of communal Jewish trauma, like the abduction of three teens from the Mekor Haim Yeshiva last week, brings out the very best of… Continue reading
It takes two to do the peace-Tango
Israeli-American Pundit and school days chum of The Mike Report, Abe Katsman has scribed a percipient take on the flailing, near death peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians [over at Breitbart… Continue reading
Israeli soldier slams haters – and a new cartoon
J STREET U AND HILLEL SPONSOR ANTI-ISRAEL EVENT – NO DISSENT ALLOWED Be open to unfamiliar ideas, be willing to have the uncomfortable conversations – these are the mantras of anti-Israel organizations like… 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
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
How to fight BDS… and win
BLOGGER AT ISRAELLYCOOL (AND FRIENDS) TAKE ON BDS SUPPORTERS AND WIN Earlier this week a Times of Israel Blogger shared that when Israeli Rabbi and student Yosele Ote asked for the academic discount when purchasing… Continue reading
Palestinian-Jewish Encounters of the Rigged Kind
Jewish-Palestinian dialogue organizations offer feel good encounters that do not serve the cause of peace. On 2 August 1990 Iraq launched a full scale invasion of Kuwait. Conservative estimates place the number of… Continue reading
How to speak Terrorist
After a day or two of reading news reports from Palestinian media you will be forced to come to the uncomfortable conclusion that Israel has a real problem with olives. Several times… Continue reading
J Street gets slapped down at UC Berkeley – and a new cartoon
The Daily Californian is reporting today that the Jewish Student Union (JSU) at UC Berkeley rejected for the second time J Street U’s request to be accepted as a member organization. The bylaws of… Continue reading
StandWithUs counters misleading anti-Israel bus ads in Vancouver BC
A war is being waged against the Jewish state, it is virulent, irrational and motivated by hate. This war on Israel is not being fought in the Middle East, it is being fought in… Continue reading
Local Israel Hater Richard Silverstein
Here in the Pacific Northwest, Israel is not so much a topic of discussion for some, but rather an obsession. One person for whom this is true is Richard Silverstein. Seattle resident, Richard… Continue reading
How the media puts Israel in a perpetual “Catch 22”
Do you remember back in 2000 when Arafat rejected Ehud Barak’s offer to abandon up to 97% of Judea & Samaria (plus land swaps) and East Jerusalem in return for peace? At the time many pro-Israel… Continue reading
EU punishes Israel over West Bank – Cartoon of the day
The European Union took economic steps to penalize Israel for building communities in the Jewish heartland of Judea & Samaria. This is the first unified economic action by Western Europeans against Jews since the… Continue reading