OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 11-29-11 Last week, Ha’aretz’s publisher Amos Schocken joined the chorus prematurely mourning “the elimination of Israeli democracy” – although articles like his in his hyper-critical newspaper prove Israel’s democratic vitality daily. Exaggerating further, he accused Israel of practicing “apartheid.” This libel is inaccurate and inflammatory. Tragically, it [...]
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All posts for the month November, 2011
The Zionism-Racism lie lives – 20 years after the UN’s repeal
Posted by giltroy on November 29, 2011
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/the-zionism-racism-lie-lives-20-years-after-the-uns-repeal/
What Israelis can learn from American Thanksgiving
OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 11-23-11 Tomorrow, Americans will celebrate Thanksgiving – a great American invention. As Americans from coast to coast sit down and dig in, eating their turkey and stuffing, their cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie, Israelis should contemplate the holiday’s broadmindedness. This is the all-American day, when blacks and [...]
Posted by giltroy on November 23, 2011
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/what-israelis-can-learn-from-american-thanksgiving/
Montreal a model for other Jewish communities
OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, 11-10-11 The mid-October issue of the Jerusalem Report exploded as a naches-bomb for me. Naches, of course, is that delicious Yiddish word meaning delighting in someone else’s accomplishments. My delight stemmed from two articles in that issue demonstrating how young Montrealers are revitalizing the Jewish world. [...]
Posted by giltroy on November 11, 2011
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/montreal-a-model-for-other-jewish-communities/
Occupy Wall Street: Preoccupied with PC Posturing
OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 11-8-11 Last week, I occupied Wall Street. Okay, I only jogged around Zuccotti Park, and talked to some people. I figure, though, that if tent encampments housing hundreds of people popping up here and there can be exaggerated into a mass movement that reporters claim has changed [...]
Posted by giltroy on November 8, 2011
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/occupy-wall-street-preoccupied-with-pc-posturing/
