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Haaretz

I am a regular contributor to Haaretz (Hebrew). For a full list click here

here a few of my English-language articles:

17 jוך,ההעדפה אכן מתקנת, אסור ללמוד מאמריקה," הארץ"

The soccer world has been in an uproar recently over Mesay Dego’s appointment as a coach for Maccabi Haifa, the national soccer champion. Some people wondered whether he wasn’t too young and inexperienced, others said he is very talented and extremely suitable...

"Israel's 'Proud Racist' Minister Has a Lot to Learn From the Americans," Haaretz (English), 3 May 2023

“I’m proud to be a racist,” May Golan declared over a decade ago.

Long before she arrived in the Knesset, she announced her racism loud and clear, and didn’t think that one day this statement would boomerang, and would not only call into question the diplomatic mission for which she was designated, but would actually prevent her appointment to the desirable position of Israel’s consul general in New York...

"Now You Remember Ethiopian Israelis?," Haaretz (English), 23 April 2023

In these days of protests against the judicial overhaul, an argument is raised, time and again, voiced by Likud ministers and Knesset members, in which they offer the Ethiopian community’s protests as proof of selective enforcement and discriminatory treatment by the police, compared to the current protests.

This sudden concern for the wellbeing of the Ethiopian Jewish community is heartwarming – but not really...

"Will Netanyahu Be the Prime Minister Who Legalized Racism in Israel?," Haaretz (English), 19 January 2023

At twelve minutes to midnight on December 21, Benjamin Netanyahu announced he had formed a government. The next day, the Israeli public found out about one of the main coalition agreements between Netanyahu’s Likud and Itamar Ben-Gvir, chairman of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party...

"Kanye West Argues That All Black People Are Jews. This Is What Inspired His Flawed Views," Haaretz (English), 12 January 2023

Less than 20 minutes into the film “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America,” viewers are told that “the Jews have established five major falsehoods.”

The aim is to bolster the filmmakers’ assertion that Black people are “the true Children of Israel,” whose identity was robbed by the Jews; hence the alleged falsehoods...