tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39244742024-03-13T17:19:50.420+02:00Steven PlautOriginal articles on Israel and related issues written by Steven Plaut, a professor at an Israeli university.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2399125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924474.post-12061194296736642602016-11-25T10:22:00.001+02:002016-11-25T10:22:41.279+02:00THE LAND OF THE GAZELLE 1. The Land of Israel is called in tradition "the land of the Tzvi," where Tzvi is a gazelle, but the expression implies a land of glory. There is a photo on the news here, I will post if I find it on the web, of a wild gazelle in Haifa leaping in the air with a wall of forest fire flames behind him. It sums up everything. 2. In America, pusillanimous Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924474.post-67726200907638322772016-10-26T11:08:00.001+03:002016-10-26T11:08:20.842+03:00Obamacandy 1. Obamacare explained in half a page: Obama Candy The Affordable Candy Act is now on the books, guaranteeing free access for youth to candy stores at prices they can afford. The law defines the mix of 9,800 candies that stores must be willing to provide consumers, including fine Belgian chocolates. The cost would be restricted to 75% of the median teenage Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924474.post-72452364289284781762016-09-29T20:10:00.001+03:002016-09-29T20:10:42.254+03:00Peres 1. By concentrating on his role in the Oslo debacle, it is easy to forget the fact that for most of his career, Shimon Peres was a great man. While he was hardly a founding father of the country, as the media are proclaiming in mindless unison, being too young in 1948, Peres played a critical role in Israeli arms procurement, in the creation of the Dimona reactor, in relations Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924474.post-73074095326841951942016-07-31T17:50:00.001+03:002016-07-31T17:50:31.022+03:00The Schocken Crime FamilyAmos Schocken is the editor of the anti-Israel Haaretz. He took it over from his own father, Gershom Schocken, who ran it from 1939 until 1989 after Amos' grandfather bought the paper in 1937. Gershom was moderate compared with his pro-terror pro-jihad son. This week was the anniversary of the attack by the Irgun (Etsel) on the military headquarters of the British in the King Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924474.post-72889745256187113792016-07-19T15:48:00.001+03:002016-07-19T15:48:03.325+03:00Shenkar College philistinism The latest crisis in Israeli philistinism involves the artsy-phartsy arts "college," Shenkar College. Seems that one of the final projects by a student there was to make a painting of Israel's religious Minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked wearing only her smile. See http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4830419,00.html The philistine president of the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924474.post-6559376254892606522016-07-13T16:22:00.001+03:002016-07-13T16:22:48.919+03:00The Uri Weiss Affair and Bar Ilan's Cowardice The Uri Weiss Affair and Bar Ilan's Cowardice By Steven Plaut For years the anti-Israel academic Left in Israeli universities has defended the "right" of anyone and everyone to boycott Israel.. The BDS terrorists are just exercising freedom of speech. So are those who organize conferences on why Israel needs to seize existing. Every anti-Semitic loonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924474.post-6723349948712536382016-07-11T15:33:00.001+03:002016-07-11T15:33:53.243+03:00News from the Conspiracy1. Don't you hate it when this happens?In the mid-1960s came the Eureka moment the conspiracists had long awaited. At last they had found a Yemenite child who had been put up for illicit adoption to an Ashkenazi family, one from Bulgaria, well probably Ashkenazi cause some Bulgarian Jews are Sephardic. The girl was named Miriam Shukar. She had been born to Yemenite parents in a maabara Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924474.post-8297855764597503342016-06-30T17:05:00.001+03:002016-06-30T17:05:10.252+03:00Let my transcripts go!1. And so it came to pass, after the night of guardianship, when the calls were finally echoing in the halls of the powers: Let my transcripts go, Let my transcripts go. The pressures from the people could no longer be resisted. And with a powerful hand and an extended arm, the long classified set of documents related to the "kidnapped" Yemenite children were set free at last, hurrying away withUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924474.post-41722597410132207492016-06-24T10:31:00.001+03:002016-06-24T10:31:24.672+03:00ok, so take a deep breath and i will tell you where all the kidnapped yemenite children are: As the PLO continues its campaign of blood libel against Israel, the Israeli media and many public figures continue THEIR CAMPAIGN OF BLOOD LIBEL AGAINST iSRAEL IN THE FORM of conspiracy paranoia surrounding "kidnapped Yemenite children." The media sob that we all need to know where the kidnapped children are/went. The media all demand to know why parents of Yemenite children whoUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924474.post-8140797056145316562016-06-22T17:02:00.001+03:002016-06-22T17:02:41.089+03:00READ MY LIPS THERE WERE NEVER ANY KIDNAPPED YEMENITE CHILDREN IN ISRAEL. 1. READ MY LIPS THERE WERE NEVER ANY KIDNAPPED YEMENITE CHILDREN IN ISRAEL. THERE WERE NO ILLEGAL ADOPTIONS OF YEMENITE CHILDREN. THERE WAS NO CONSPIRACY. THERE WERE A HANDFUL OF LEGAL ADOPTIONS. THERE WERE ALSO MANY CASES OF CHILD MORTALITY; THE YEMENITES ARRIVED IN ISRAEL FROM YEMEN WITH A VERY HIGH INCIDENCE. HOSPITAL RECORD KEEPING IN ISRAEL IN THE 1950S WAS A MESS. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924474.post-3497411416011672952016-06-09T16:24:00.001+03:002016-06-09T16:24:42.992+03:00LEFTIST BGU FACULTY MEMBER MURDERED BY PALESTINIAN TERRORISTSLEFTIST BGU FACULTY MEMBER MURDERED BY PALESTINIAN TERRORISTS One of the victims of the barbaric terror attack in Tel Aviv was a leftist faculty member from the monochromatic department of sociology at Ben Gurion University. The victim is Michael Feige, whose web page can be seen here http://in.bgu.ac.il/en/bgi/Pages/michael_Feige.aspx The syllabus of his biased one-sided course on "Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924474.post-4429007548114632322016-06-07T13:10:00.001+03:002016-06-07T13:10:12.770+03:00Israel's Socialist Dreams vs. Capitalist Realities1. Send Israel's tenured leftists to Rikers Island!! The Knesset is issuing a "boycott the boycotters" call, directed against the BDS terrorists who boycott Israel. Now NY STATE ANNOUNCES IT IS BOYCOTTING ALL BDS ACTIVISTS. ISRACAMPUS HAS ISSUED THE FOLLOWING CALL: DEMAND THAT NY STATE BOYCOTT ANTI-ISRAEL ISRAELI LEFTIST "ACADEMICS" WHO Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924474.post-15521079992422779742016-06-03T11:49:00.001+03:002016-06-03T11:49:22.549+03:00Moses in the Ladies Room? Moses in the Ladies Room? Israel is under mortal threat. Global anti-Semitism is growing. Iran getting nuclear weapons. ISIS atrocities everywhere. And what is foremost on the agenda of the "Conservative" synagogue movement? Making sure that if Bruce Jenner ever decides to convert to Judaism, he will feel comfortable in a "Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924474.post-84944924799728047122016-06-02T14:30:00.001+03:002016-06-02T14:30:43.654+03:00The Israeli Left's War against the FlagThe Israeli Left's War against the FlagBy Steven Plaut The Israeli Left has a serious flag problem. Well, a problem with the Israeli flag to be precise. The one with the six-pointed blue star. Not the ISIS flag. The Left intensely dislikes people who wave Israeli flags, although I think it would be okay with those radical anti-Trump protesters waving Mexican and Iranian flags. At the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924474.post-24523791917178175702016-05-29T16:26:00.000+03:002016-05-29T16:27:00.664+03:00Israeli Left Warming up to Idea of a Military CoupIsraeli Left Warming up to Idea of a Military Coup By Steven Plaut Israel's anti-democratic radical Left has a new brilliant brainstorm idea. Having despaired of ever convincing more than a trivial portion of the Israeli public of the correctness of its "ideas," it now would like to impose its ideas on the country by means of a military coup. Really.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924474.post-63133255054467466452016-05-29T13:26:00.001+03:002016-05-29T13:26:21.560+03:00Ben Gurion "University" loses large donation because sponsoring one-sided anti-Israel "conference" 1. Ben Gurion "University" holds one-sided "conference" to support treasonous espionage group "Breaking the Silence," in which only anti-Israel ultra-leftists allowed to speak. Major donor to BGU cancels donation: http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Donor-withholds-1m-from-BGU-over-Breaking-the-Silence-panel-455179 A prominent Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924474.post-91929200075436514042016-05-22T08:31:00.001+03:002016-05-22T08:31:07.043+03:00Hebrew University's war against Orthodox Women1. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, or more precisely its politicized School of Law, operated a fundamentalist jihad these past days … against religious women. The law school has a number of religious women students. Each year it runs a spring "gala" party for students, with music and dancing. This year the religious women in the law school requested that a small corner of the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924474.post-69847623855634551802016-05-17T16:08:00.001+03:002016-05-17T16:08:24.186+03:00Pagan Asslibs and the "Trans"-pseudo-rabbis 1. JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT THE PAGAN ASSLIBS (ASSIMILATIONIST LIBERALS) OF THE US JEWISH COMMUNITY (AS WELL AS THE COMMIES FROM THE FORWARD) COULD NOT POSSIBLY GET ANY MORE IDIOTIC: http://forward.com/news/180503/new-generation-of-transgender-rabbis-ties-jewish-p/?attribution=tag-article-listing-7-headline Meet the "transgendered" pseudo-rabbis! In theUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924474.post-25561883001763485302016-05-10T14:43:00.001+03:002016-05-10T14:43:27.835+03:00Since when is Criticism Prohibited in Israel? Chill out! Join the Left!!Since when is Criticism Prohibited in Israel? Chill out! Join the Left!! We are the progressive Israeli forces for peace. We read Haaretz. We protest against intolerance towards the Other. We oppose occupation. We want a Palestinian state. We want equality. We want people to be nice. We are outraged that the politicians and media have attacked the general who Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924474.post-62708227783514155502016-05-04T10:47:00.001+03:002016-05-04T10:47:20.235+03:00Leftist Dean at Ben Gurion University Indicted for Sexual Harassment of his StudentsLeftist Dean at Ben Gurion "University" Indicted for Sexual Harassment of his Students As Seinfeld would say, "Newman!!" David Newman is, or at least was up unto this week, the Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities at Ben Gurion "University." The right-hand man of BGU president Rivka Carmi, Newman is a leftist liar, the close colleagueUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924474.post-40876772947055903762016-04-12T16:08:00.001+03:002016-04-12T16:08:15.564+03:00SHUKAGATESHUKAGATE - Israel's Tyrannical and Imperious Judiciary Strikes Down Free Speech... AgainIsrael is buzzing about the Shukagate Atrocity of the Tel Aviv District Court. It involved a funny commercial featuring a fictional insurance agent named Shuka who was an incompetent moron. The ad was produced by the "Direct" Insurance Company, which works without agents, to say that they Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924474.post-1087232607158249882016-03-23T10:51:00.001+02:002016-03-23T10:51:25.634+02:00ZehavaAn Interview with Meretz Chairpeacenik Zehava Galon By Steven Plaut Good morning, Madame Chairperson, I would like to ask you about your thoughts on the events in Brussels this week. Just call me Zehava, young man. Always glad to speak with representatives of the progressive Meretz-voting fourth estate. Clearly it was all the fault of Bibi Netanyahu, now what Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924474.post-18975504197827430082016-03-22T14:36:00.001+02:002016-03-22T14:36:37.700+02:00BELGIANS REAP WHAT THEY SOWEDWhen the Belgian national opera staged a show by anti-Semites celebrating suicide bombings:http://zioncon.blogspot.co.il/2009/04/two-jews-and-israeli-arab-stage-belgian.htmlThursday, April 16, 2009Two Jews and an Israeli Arab Stage Belgian Opera Celebrating Mass Murder and Suicide Terrorsm against JewsYou will be happy to hear that two pro-terror Israelis, a Jew and an Arab, will be staging an Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924474.post-35557675096224431372016-03-15T14:35:00.001+02:002016-03-15T14:35:04.898+02:00Haaretz joins the Hezb'Allah For those who thought that Haaretz, the Palestinian newspaper printed in Hebrew, could not get any more treasonous, its new campaign this week is defending the Hezb'Allah. The background to this is that the entire Arab world through the Arab League, led by the Saudis, has denounced the Hezb'Allah as a terrorist group, as have all Western countries. Well, the loyal and Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924474.post-76485439736442080462016-03-06T18:56:00.001+02:002016-03-06T18:56:13.806+02:00Bike Seat BonkersFor those who think politics just could not get any more infantile than the US debate over Trump's petzele, just consider the choking hysteria of the media Left in Israel over a satirical Purim-season joke about one of the dumber Labor Party Knesset Members in Israel. A right-leaning religious commentator on TV (one of the very few) wearing a red wig joked about Stav Shafir riding her Unknownnoreply@blogger.com