Lady Justice, Wilders and the Jews The Dutch Public Prosecutor’s Office has decided to bring the leader of the PVV Freedom Party, Geert Wilders, before a Dutch court. In a post-election meeting, Wilders had asked those present whether or not … [Read More]
Category Archives: Publications
One simple example of how to fight Israel’s delegitimization A large number of cheap projects can help counteract delegitimization of Israel somewhat. One example, among many, is the blog, Bad News from the Netherlands. What convinced me to start this … [Read More]
The Netherlands: A country which refuses to admit its guilt toward the Jews May 4 is National Memorial Day in the Netherlands. Originally, it was a remembrance day for the murdered and fallen during Germany’s occupation. In the past few … [Read More]
Israel against the forces of sentimental appeal The worldwide reactions to Israel’s Operation Protective Edge have shown once again the strong impact of sentimental appeal and how it often supersedes rational analysis. In many Western societies, the emotional plea for … [Read More]
NATO’s new secretary-general: Problematic not only for Israel Until the recent developments in Ukraine, it was unclear for many Westerners what the current justification for NATO’s existence was. The Cold War is history, so why continue to maintain a transatlantic … [Read More]
How the UN and Westerners became enablers to Palestinian murder-promoters One little-publicized aspect of the Protective Edge campaign during the past summer was that the United Nations, along with a variety of prominent Westerners, have in fact – though not … [Read More]
The greatest lie about geopolitics By Manfred Gerstenfeld and Jamie Berk 13 December 2014 Published in The Jerusalem Post http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/The-greatest-lie-about-geopolitics-384535 Arab propaganda has succeeded in turning the Palestinian-Israeli conflict into the foremost geopolitical issue. This phenomenon started at the United … [Read More]
Small experiences with Big Media When one publishes about subjects such as Israel and Europe or anti-Semitism, one is regularly contacted by journalists. It sometimes leads to bizarre experiences. Several such experiences resulted from my 2013 book, Demonizing Israel and … [Read More]
Why Israel should monitor the Ukraine conflict closely The Russian-Ukranian conflict and resulting Russian-Western tensions may widen further for a long time to come. If so, this is likely to lead to substantial geopolitical changes. It is far too early … [Read More]
The sustainability of the conflict If Israel were to have a central counter- propaganda unit, one of its functions would be to address the regular abuse of semantics to demonize the country. Two expressions of such abuse which easily come … [Read More]