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Purim: Till You Can’t Tell the Difference Between Israel and ISIS

Purim, the Jewish holiday that happened a few days ago is a strange one. It’s an amalgam of genocide and celebration, drunken revelry, hitting perfect strangers in the street (with toy hammers), raucous noise, and donning crazy costumes. It’s a little bit Halloween and a little big Super Bowl. But there’s a dark underlying savagery to this holiday. That’s because, according to the Book of Esther, the king’s advisor, Haman, plots the extermination of the Jews of Persia. He fails and in the process it is his entire family and supporters who are wiped out on scaffolds erected throughout the kingdom, originally meant for the Jews. There is no other way to describe this than genocide. What other holiday you can think of celebrates mass murder?

http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2015/03/09/purim-when-becomes-isis/

Happy International Women’s Day: Signed, Your Friends in the Israeli Police!

The State of Israel just announced who would receive the honor of lighting the torch that marks the start of Israel Independence Day. It went to Israeli TV news anchor, Lucy Aharish. She is a young Israeli-Palestinian who grew up among Moroccan Jews in Dimona. Her politics during this period were exceedingly right-wing. And today, they still bear traces of that upbringing. She speaks Hebrew with no Palestinian accent, dresses like a hip Tel Avivit, and bears no semblance of her ethnic roots. Her politics around the Palestinian conflict are typically liberal Zionist (“We have other things to get over besides the occupation and discrimination”). It’s a problem not of her making nor is it her responsibility to fix it or speak on anyone’s behalf but her own.

http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2015/03/08/happy-international-womens-day-signed-your-friends-in-the-israeli-police/