Gidon Ben-Zvi
ARTICLES BY: Gidon Ben-Zvi
Educating for Peace: Palestinian Authority School Books Preach Peace, Love…and Bomb Making
In an April 6 Guardian piece Harriet Sherwood described the relentless flurry of hate mail that Israeli journalist Amira Hass has recently received...
Hamas Embarks on Campaign to Stomp Out Carnations (SATIRE)
Seeking to beat back a recent outbreak of optimism about the future, the Islamist Hamas movement has taken a number of extraordinary steps in recent...
Dispatch from a Rampaging Camel: Purim 2013 Snapshots
The headlines from Purim 5773 were fat, loud and ominous. First, from the West Bank, dire reports of growing tensions; demonstrations in Ramallah and Hebron...
Thank You for Visiting the Islamic Republic of Fred
Some countries just can't catch a break. Blinded by the bright hot lights of international scrutiny, a flock of black sheep within the...
The Gatekeepers: Peddling Two-State Propaganda All the Way to the Oscars
The Gatekeepers is a highly acclaimed Israeli documentary that tells the story of the Shin Bet from the perspective of six former heads of...
Palestinian Incitement Is Not Comparable to Israeli Textbooks
In a recent report for the Guardian (Israeli and Palestinian textbooks omit borders, Feb. 4), Harriet Sherwood exposed Israel's education system for the ...
Muzika Mizrahit, Rock and Roll, and Israeli Identity
As far as the music that makes my heart go pitter- patter, it's always been bouncy, beat driven, three-chord rock 'n' roll for...
The Curious Case of Asher Nesher
I first met him in a crowded, balmy northern Jerusalem pizza parlor called "Borough Park". He, Asher Nesher, was working behind the counter, gracefully fielding...
Israel’s Transformative Energy
How does a mild mannered CPA from Far Rockaway, Queens grow a set of vocal cords of such power and presence that a once meek...
Uprooting the Truth: Olive Trees as the Latest ‘Obstacle to Peace’
The Guardian's Harriet Sherwood recently told a tale of Israeli settlers attacking Palestinian olive groves, 'Israel urged to protect West Bank olive trees after settler...
Can Israel Survive without US Financial Aid? Yes!
Recently former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates stated that Washington must make it clear to Israeli leaders that the U.S. must not permit Israel to...
Bibi’s Big Speech: An Obsession with Consensus
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to the United Nations last Thursday night was powerful, compelling and highlighted by a visual aid - a...
Victimhood as Foreign Policy
Would Israel's ambassador to the U.N. have called on the world body "to tell the 850,000 untold stories of Jewish refugees from Arab countries..." had the...
Blame Anyone but Hamas at UNRWA
Robert Turner, Director of Operations in Gaza for UNRWA, in his 'Comment is Free' post ("Gaza: an early warning of disaster", 9 September 2012), expended...
