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Hiding the ultra orthodox Jewish women
This blog post was amazing. As it turns out, apparently the ultra-orthodox folks do not like to show their women, so what did they do? What was the original? Medieval, seriously bizarr...
Orthodox Jews vote for ignorance
I found this entire episode completely perplexing. So this is what I understand. The ultra orthodox Jews in Israel already enjoy a whole host of exceptions that are not available to other Israeli's. T...
Innovation and Eastern Europe
Saw this note and was reminded of a lecture that I gave on outsourcing (will be giving a related one here) in conjunction with this firm at the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists. T...
A tale of 2 events - Israel and Sudan
Today, I read two events. The first was that one entire country was held responsible for genocide. And a future president praised another country which is also accused of genocide. In both cases, Musl...
The Jews as Contested Ground in Postmodern Conspiracy Theory
A fascinating paper on how Jews always seem to end up in conspiracy theory land. It is because of this reason that any other argument, even well argued, is generally looked upon suspiciously because i...
And yet again some British Academics play the fool
And again and again, again and again, British professional bodies constantly turn to being stupid in pushing this anti Israel or Boycott agenda. Simply stupid, and given the pretty much constancy in...
Israel should be ashamed of itself of doing this to orphans
This is literally outrageous. How can the Israeli army do this to orphans? And even if it is a front for Hamas, so bloody what? Is the Israeli army going to take care of the orphans, you blithering id...
Israeli attack kills four children of Palestinian family
What the hell is Israel doing? First it uses fletchette rounds for tank ammo and kills people and now it kills more children.This is bizarre and frankly horrible.Palestinian medics identified the dead...
Chelsea visit sparks Malaysia row
Ahem. Technorati Tags: Anti-Semitism,Malaysia,Islam,Muslims ...
China and Israel - a tale of 2 photographs
Take a look at these two photographs The first one is obviously from Tianamen Square, which people will recognize. The second is from somewhere in the occupied territories in Palestine. Now the...
And we have another silly reason for terrorism and extremism
I keep on saying that linking Palestine and British foreign policy to British extremism and terrorism in the UK is stupid. Here's my previous essay on how intellectually vacuous this argument is. Bu...
Egypt builds new wall along Gaza
Unfortunately, walls do work, whether to keep people in or keep people out, they do work. Walls are characterised by three aspects. One, who makes them, where is it built and what is the point of the ...
The Star of David on the Moroccan Flag (thanks, Larry
Thanks to my good friend, Larry Schwartz, this very interesting factoid came to my attention. Did you know that the Moroccan flag had the star of david emblazoned on it? and the reason why they had it...