Archive for January 25th, 2005

Shalom, Harry

When I posted three weeks ago how Britons do not think much of Israel, you would have probably thought that it would take magic to draw the average Brit to Israel. And you may not have been mistaken.

Fans of literary boy wizard Harry Potter have been beating a path to the tomb of a 19-year-old [...]

BBC Euphemisms 101

Question: What is the difference between demolishing buildings and razing shacks?
 
Answer: Demolishing buildings is something Israel does. Razing shacks is how the BBC describes exactly the same act, but performed by the PA.

Get With the Program

The media are today reporting that Britney Spears just got herself a Hebrew tattoo (also currently being reported on the Internet Movie Database).

Britney Spears is taking her secret Kabbalah lessons seriously – she’s had a Hebrew symbol tattooed on the back of her neck.
 
The pop superstar, who has dabbled with the mystical offshoot of Judaism after [...]

Quote of the Day

“You can’t brainwash people for four years that Israel is an illegitimate country and that Israelis are like the Nazis and that Israelis are monsters and expect that nothing will happen to Jews.”
- Tehila Nahalon, adviser to Israeli minister Natan Sharansky, blaming the hostile and biased reporting in the British media for the steep [...]

Does Mahmud Smile?

Despite being warned to avoid it, Mahmud steps in some dog doo-doo – does Mahmud smile?
 
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Answer: No
 
 

 
(AFP)

Has The World Learned Anything?

Yesterday, history was made, as the UN General Assembly convened a special session commemorating the victims of the Holocaust, coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.*
 
60 years on, I cannot help but feel that the words “never again” have become just words. I am not alone.

Sixty years after the liberation of Auschwitz, a national [...]