Israellycool reader Lyn wrote to the British Advertising Standards Authority’s (ASA) regarding their decision to uphold the complaint of one lone individual, who took issue with an advert showing the Wailing Wall. Here’s the reply she received. I appreciate that you strongly disagree with the Advertising Standards Authority’s (ASA) decision to uphold a complaint against [...]
Yesterday, I blogged about the British Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruling that the Israeli tourism advert containing the Kotel/Wailing Wall breached truthfulness guidelines and could not be used. While the whole thing is absurd, there is another element of this story that caught my attention. The ruling seems to have followed a complaint by one [...]
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu yesterday met with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Israeli sources described Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s meeting on Monday as “friendly and concise.” The two met privately for an hour and a half and were later joined by officials from both sides, including [...]
I’m beginning to think the world’s easiest job is the guy who checks the job applications of prospective baggage handlers. All he needs to do is watch out for Muslim men with a seething anger against the West. If he finds one of them, he gives them the job. A Heathrow worker held on suspicion [...]
No, the title of this post is not a reference to the punchline of a popular circumcision joke, but rather a Daily Mail report that the Mossad tipped off M16 that their agents were about to carry out an overseas operation using fake British passports. A member of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, said the [...]
In the wake of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh’s killing and passportgate, Israel’s ambassadors to the United Kingdom and Ireland have been summoned to explain the “identity theft.” The assassination of senior Hamas member Mahmoud al-Mabhouh is turning into international diplomatic affair. Israel’s ambassador to the United Kingdom and Ireland have bee summoned by the countries’ foreign ministries [...]
Arab UN delegates yesterday circulated a draft resolution that would require UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to bring the Goldstone report before the Security Council. Meanwhile.. France and Britain to the rescue?! A joint French-British UN initiative would call on Israel and the Palestinians to hold immediate, independent investigations into war crimes allegations stemming from the [...]
Can you guess the profession of the Muslim man in the center holding the inflammatory sign against British troops in Iraq? a) Proctologist b) Standup comedian c) Circus performer d) Airport baggage handler And the answer is…
Karma’s a b*tch. The daughter of the radical Islamic cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed is a pole dancer, it emerged last night. Yasmin Fostok, 27, has admitted rebelling against her father’s strict Muslim beliefs by performing semi-naked in London bars and nightclubs. She lives as a single mother in South East London, bringing up her three-year-old [...]
Holy completely random knife attack, Batman! A man has been charged following a double knife attack on two Orthodox Jews in Golders Green. Mohamed Jama Ahmed, 37, of North Circular Road, Cricklewood, was arrested after two stabbings which happened just meters apart in roads off Golders Green Road on Friday. A Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said [...]
