Hollywood converts and other UFOs

Judaism does get its share of the soul-searching celebs, and at least two interesting cases came to our attention lately, thanks to ToI: Ash...

Happy Easter!

To all out Christian friends. And some newly discovered truths to go with that greeting:

Germany attacks Poland - again. This time it's on moral grounds.

The Algemeiner has an article on a new German series on World War II. This one's different, though. It's about Poland during that p...

Pregnant Kim Kardashian is still being slightly annoying

A few (two or three) years ago I was living in a bliss of not knowing who exactly Kim Kardashian is - believe it or not. This state of nirva...

Confirmation of PA control of foreign journalists.

There appears to be confirmation of the Palestinian Authority's censorship"guidance" of foreign journalists I reported previou...

West Bank reporting by foreign journalists to require PA permission.

Did anyone just say "freedom of speech" and/or "freedom of the press" and/or "freedom of thought"? And if not ...

The Council Has Spoken!

Council Winners *First place with 3  votes! Joshuapundit – Narcissus In The Promised Land Redux: Obama Learns You Can’t Fool All Of The P...

Slighted by Palestinian Authority

That's me. Personally. And here is why : Palestinian journalist Mamdouh Hamamreh from Bethlehem was sentenced on Thursday to one year in...

When a worm

happens upon a dead lion's body, the worm could consider itself a victor. In a way. But even a worm wouldn't dance on the dead body,...

Faulkner’s Nobel medal for sale, and I know why

Because of that annoying Elder's habit to connect the dots, here is the news : For collectors Faulkner’s 1949 medal, his Nobel diploma a...

Apartheid Palestine?

Anne Bayefsky speaks at Human Rights Council, Geneva, March 18, 2013:

The map Obama didn't see

PMW turns up some amazing stories quite regularly. This one is no exception. After the UN vote in November 2012, the PA built a monument in...

Watcher’s Council Nominations – ‘Till Death Or Lawyers Do Us Part Edition

Council Submissions The Noisy Room – Islamic Dogs of War – The Use Of Gang-Rape to Subjugate Infidels and Those that Resist The Political ...

Russia's new Middle eastern energy game

is the headline on this article from The Commentator. Written by Peter C. Glove & Michael J. Economides, it argues that many observers ...

Woman with tadpoles in her mouth

Believe it or not : The airport said the woman, a foreigner, was found to have a bottle of liquid in her luggage at Guangzhou Baiyun Interna...

Passover - another interpretation

Hat tip: Y.Z.

RIP, dear Jams

I still hope against all hope that this is a bad joke. It is difficult to imagine a world where one can't stop by Jams' (Shaun Downe...

On questioning professor Joseph Levine

I wasn't raised in a particularly religious Jewish environment, but these days when I see an article titled like On Questioning the Jewi...

Happy Passover - Hag Pesach sameach!

And more on the subject, since we are at it:

Bashar al-Assad assassinated?

More details by Joshuapundit . Update : Looks like this was just a bit of wishful thinking. Apparently the famous Iranian quail sent to him ...

George (The Spiv) Galloway Banned from University of Chester

To make it clear: I am not an ardent supporter of curbing the right to free speech, even in cases like this one. However, the story is wort...

"Shattered Arab dreams": for them, my heart bleeds (British irony)

"Four years on, Egyptians who attended the Cairo University speech feel let down, a view that hardened when Obama, who has had a volati...

The Council Has Spoken!

Council Winners *First place with 2 2/3 votes! The Noisy  Room – Marxism in Education – The Infiltration of Our School Systems by the Com...

Should the German NDP be banned?

I don't know about you, but I'm definitely conflicted over this issue. The far right and the far left are equally abhorrent to me. I...

And about time too!

"The Obama administration refused to participate in a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting on Israeli settlements and slammed the body for...

Israel is undemocratic...or not, as the case may be.

Whether he means to or not, Prof. Levine (philosophy at the U of Massachusetts) manages to employ antisemitic tropes in his argument that th...

On procrastination

The problem is obviously ancient, dating from the decision of that caveman to postpone taking out the garbage for tomorrow or, at least, for...

Michael White: The Livingstone Formulation? Nope, the Seumas Milne's formula.

This is a (rare) case when I have to disagree with a co-blogger, and a distinguished one at that - professor Brian Goldfarb. And, by proxy, ...

Guardian deputy-editor deepens hole over Lord Ahmed

Then there is this to add to the posting on Lord Ahmed . It's also from the engage website, but shows Guardian Deputy-Editor Michael Wh...

Labour Muslim peer reveals his antisemitism

Engageonline has this item on the first Muslim peer in the UK, Lord Ahmed, and his antisemitic outburst. Note that the Labour Party has sus...

An impostor in Vatican...

He he he... Filched from Louise .

The Council Has Spoken!

Council Winners *First place with 3  votes! The Razor – What If The Experts Are Wrong About North Korea? Second place   with 1 2/3  vo...

Alexander Prokhanov and Gaza

Some time ago I have tried to get our readers acquainted with the phenomenon of a Stalinist throwback, one Alexander Prokhanov . While readi...

Another book I wouldn't read

But I have to applaud the author's generosity, easily proven by the list of the protagonists: A serial killer who is raping and stabbing...

New Pope: Francis. Mazel tov!

But even this will not help the Argentina's national team in the Mondial next year. No, sir.

Plots or plotz? Who took Chavez from Venezuela?

Let the narrative unfurl slowly and don't ask questions about the headline meanwhile, please. Although, to tell the truth, I am not tota...

Watcher’s Council Nominations – Mr. Rand Goes To Washington Edition

Council Submissions The Colossus of Rhodey – Do We Need Overseers To Make Sure We Don’t Destroy Ourselves? The Noisy Room – Beware the Dr...

Mahmoud (The Mad) Ahmadinejad, the deviant from Tehran

When you consider Mahmoud The Mad to be one of the most pious Muslims in history, think again. Apparently under the familiar (and dear by n...