Why Chomesh? What is so special about Chomesh?
Chomesh in the news: They take it down. A yeshiva goes up. They take it down. They put it up again. And they threaten to take it back down again. The operations against the...
Category: First-Hand and Investigative
As I try to develop my skills as a journalist, I will look for opportunities to get out into the field and away from my computer to write about people and events first-hand. In other cases, my first-hand reporting will be Internet based investigations.
i24 News: One Easy Way to Verify Trustworthiness of a News Story
Using Google to search for news reports of the latest incidents of alleged settler violence, I found a short list of recent articles, including one on i24 News. To my surprise, I discovered that...
Hilltop Youth: True Moral Bankruptcy in Israel
Meretz Party MK Mossi Raz, among others, is on a campaign (rampage?) to demonize all the Jews living in Judea-Samaria. At the beginning of the month, he posted a Tweet that reads: The state’s...
When 250 Trees are Jewish, Nobody Cares if they are Uprooted
On the 17th of February a call went out on the Sinjel Municipality Facebook page urging the Palestinian Arabs to come out for an undisclosed activity seeking to push Jews off the land. A...
Israel’s Defence Minister in Cahoots with Judea-Samaria Real Estate Scam
Israel’s Defence Minister, Benny Gantz, is cooperating with the biggest real estate scam this country has ever seen. He does this in two ways: first, by taking advantage of the current make-up of the...
Burin: Who is Harassing Whom?
Following an incident at Burin, at a special Law Committee session dealing with so-called “settler violence,” Rabbis for Human Rights Executive Director Avi Dabush was honoured with having had the closing remark in the...
Interview: Falsely arrested for peaceful support of Jews of Ramla
Sometimes the wheels of justice turn excruciatingly slowly. Only recently, 17 Jewish men who were arrested in Ramla in May 2021, during Operation Guardians of the Walls, were finally awarded NIS 5,000 each as...
El-Mufaqara, Avigayil, and Havat Maon: Where did my anger get me?
This is a story borne out of anger. I was angry at the apparent one-sidedness of the reporting at what happened at el-Mufaqara and the way it seemed everyone I knew accepted the media...
