Wikimedia has struck a deal with Israeli officials to promote students’ multi-lingual writing and re-writing of history, geography and science topics in Wikipedia. Unwitting readers of Wikipedia likely take accounts of Middle Eastern history at face value, not realising the extent of manipulation occurring behind the seemingly authoritative guise of an encyclopaedia. From word choice, to basic information given …
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A US Official’s ‘Blistering’—but Anonymous—Response to Israeli Insults
By Richard Edmondson The US-Israel “special relationship” is unprecedented in world history. And not only that, it violates the laws of nature. Never before in recorded history has a large, powerful nation come to be dominated by a small country with substantially lesser military capabilities. It has never happened. Yet such a conquest has fallen …
Evaporating Support Among Young American Christians Panics Israel Supporters
Yesterday I posted an article about a conference called “Christ at the Checkpoint,” which opened Monday in Bethlehem and will run through Friday. The conference was designed with the aim of exploring the teachings of Jesus and how they might “contribute towards achieving peace and justice in Palestine/Israel.” Though it has been scathingly denounced by the Israeli …
Dealing Death to Three-Year-Olds
On Christmas Eve I put up several posts, including one entitled A Message of ‘Peace on Earth’ from Israel, which included some videos showing Israeli children talking, singing, and laughing about what kind of violence and mayhem they would love inflicting upon members of the Arab population around them. Turns out that roughly around the time …