before the establishment of Israel, the Arab residents of the land did not have one unified identity and were divided among themselves on various issues, ranging from family and tribal loyalties to demands to be annexed to Syria, Jordan, and the like. It was a pan-Arab identity and not a particular nationalistic attachment to Palestine per se.

created a standard to separate legitimate criticism of Israeli policies from antisemitism, and this framework was adopted by the US Department of State in 2010. It is called the 3D test: Delegitimize, Demonize, Double Standard.

He described a country established by a group of liberal, mostly secular, persecuted, and idealistic people who had nowhere else to go. The new country, he said, was established, true to Herzl’s vision, as a Jewish and democratic state, without any discrimination based on religion, race, or sex.

synthesis: “when you take widely separated things and put them together to create something new.” This is a great way to describe Israelis. We are a bunch of refugee mutts living side by side while creating an entirely new breed.

The average Charedi family has 7.1 children, and the average secular family has 2.2.

Why such passion when Israel comes up? Why aren’t the boycott movements, worldwide condemnations, political resolutions, international media headlines, demonstrations, and twitterstorms not equally directed at, say, China, North Korea, Syria, Iran, Venezuela, Yemen, Turkey, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Myanmar, Burundi, Egypt, Algeria, Sierra Leone, Pakis

BDS is the acronym for Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, and it acts to do just that: to wage economic warfare on Israel. It advocates for divesting investments away from Israel, boycotting Israeli products and academia, not doing business with Israeli companies, and placing economic sanctions on Israel, like the ones imposed on apartheid South Afric

As you can see, Arabs and Jews alike were lied to and seriously screwed by the Sykes-Picot Agreement. The Jews didn’t get Israel, the Arabs didn’t get anything, and the whole region became a complete disaster—a disaster caused by colonial forces meeting a desert land occupied by villages, little towns, bigger towns, and many camel-riding, tent-dwel

The first time the Palestinian people were referred to as a nation, by themselves or officially by the international community, was in 1964, despite what they might want you to believe. Let me explain.