I'm an Arab Christian citizen of Israel, and I'm free...free to practice my religion, and in fact, it is my country that made sure that the ceremony of the holy fire in the church of the holy sepulchre goes as safely as possible.
I want to thank the Israeli police, the Israeli…

A fond farewell to Frank Stella, who died today, at age 87. I took this photograph in his studio in Rock Tavern, N.Y., where he kept a narrow cot amid his baroque constructions and was no doubt awakened on countless occasions by a jolt of inspiration.

Happy birthday to the wonderful Michael Palin, 81 today.

Over the past few months, Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib’s courageous voice, insisting that there is a better way, has been a genuine inspiration to me. Proud that The Sunday Times have published this essay by him

thetimes.co.uk/article/487ca2…

This cleanup is happening tomorrow. 400 or more Jews will show up in the UCLA campus to clean up the disgusting vandalism and mess left by those calling for the extermination of Jews, creating an environment of terror for Jewish students and others, and blocking students from…

Israeli civil society is a sight to behold

And here is the restored ornemental cross, only piece of #NotreDame ’s roof that survived the fire, ready to travel from Normandy to Paris and be fixed on the apse!

Jews don’t count.

Thoughts on work from Jerome K Jerome (b otd 1859):
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do.

The Internet is not to blame for people’s stupidity and complete lack of historical literacy. It just makes it easier for us to see that stupidity on full display, and they have less excuses for not being able to learn just how historically illiterate they truly are.

I have made my views clear.
youtube.com/watch?v=m54VYf…

Wow (and glad I caught the one on the right in Dublin just in time)

Given to me by my parents, Christmas 1987. Thirty-odd years later I started collecting copies of The New York Trilogy that were in some way distinguished.

Why are right-wing extremists destroying flour shipments headed into the Gaza Strip & being allowed to do so by the Israel Defense Forces near the borders? This is sick and shameful behavior that's wasteful, wrong & undermines claims of unhindered international humanitarian aid being allowed in.

The ‘peaceful’ pro-Pals are issuing what sounds remarkably like a threat to Jews.

sure, Zionists definitely behind the conflict in Kashmir - everyone knows that ...

Yemeni-Houthi Minister of Information Dayfallah Al-Shami: We Chant ‘Curses Upon the Jews’ Because They Are Cunning Schemers; We Would Fight against the Zionists Directly in Gaza, But It’s Too Far Away #Yemen #Houthis #Antisemitism