OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 5-22-12 The lecturer at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Jerusalem this Sunday looked like your typical, distinguished, Tel Avivi secular scientist, with an impressive position and a delicious enthusiasm for his “lovely” chemical results. Further perpetuating the stick-figure impression of him as another far-left, [...]
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Jerusalem Day Belong to All Israelis, not just “Settlers”
Posted by giltroy on May 22, 2012
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/jerusalem-day-belong-to-all-israelis-not-just-settlers/
Raped anglo teen brutalized by the system yet redeemed by strangers
OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 5-9-12 Three years ago, coverage by Ya’akov Lapin, followed by some columns I wrote, alerted the Jerusalem Post community to an abomination that occurred in northern Israel. Police arrested an American immigrant teenager in Karmiel for urinating on a lawn in late November, 2009. One police officer beat [...]
Posted by giltroy on May 9, 2012
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/raped-anglo-teen-brutalized-by-the-system-yet-redeemed-by-strangers/
Don’t change Hatikvah just add a stanza
OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 5-1-12 The venerable Jewish newspaper, the Forward, is pushing for a new Israeli national anthem. Since February, when Supreme Court Justice Salim Jubran, an Israeli Arab, stood respectfully but silently during the playing of the national anthem, the newspaper has been stirring the issue. For Israel’s 64th birthday, the [...]
Posted by giltroy on May 1, 2012
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/dont-change-hatikvah-just-add-a-stanza/
My temporary visa to the land of the disabled
OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Montreal Gazette, 4-30-12 It was the kind of big, fancy cocktail party I attend rarely enough that I enjoy the occasion. I was looking forward to this one because, in addition to liking the honoree and his family, there were half a dozen friends whom I rarely see amid [...]
Posted by giltroy on April 30, 2012
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/my-temporary-visa-to-the-land-of-the-disabled/
