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Blog Entries by Bradley Burston from 08/2011

In an Israel Reborn, a Glimpse of a New Israeli

| Posted 08.11.2011 | World
Read More: Tel Aviv, Haaretz, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mideast, Israel-Palestinian Conflict, Avigdor Lieberman, Israel, Bradley Burston, Israel Protests, Bruce Springsteen, World News

What if, in choosing the Israel we want Israel to become, ordinary people decided they could no longer wait?

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Not Jewish Enough for Glenn Beck -- Nor Israeli Enough

| Posted 08.22.2011 | Media
Read More: Anti-Semitism, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Politics, Israeli Settlements, Haaretz, Reform Judaism, George Soros, Israel, Fox News, Bradley Burston, Glenn Beck, United States, Palestinians, Judaism, Media News

This has been a summer of astonishments. So it probably should have come as no surprise that Tel Aviv's sudden tent city should have drawn the impossi...

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Terrorism, Racism, and the Idea That Israelis Are People, Too

| Posted 08.25.2011 | World
Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Haaretz, Gaza, Terrorism, Boycott, Anti-Semitism, Bradley Burston, Israel, Hamas, Omar Barghouti, Idf, Judaism, World News

When opposition to Israeli policies crosses the line into hatred and dark stereotyping of Israelis as a whole, does this not constitute racism?

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A Rightist Push Scores Against Press Freedom in Israel

| Posted 08.31.2011 | World
Read More: Larry Derfner, The Jerusalem Post, Jerusalem Post Fires Writer, Jerusalem Post Larry Derfner, Jerusalem-Post-Fires-Columnist, World News

The decision taken by Post management has placed many of the paper's editors and journalists in an impossible bind. Even many who disagree vehemently with Larry's point of view believe that the firing was a mistake.

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