The issue is not about hummus, chocolate bars or Dead Sea vacations. It is about civil society taking full responsibility for its own action ( or lack of ). The issue is not exactly about Israeli products either, but rather about how even a seemingly innocent decision like buying Israeli […]
Day: September 1, 2022
In retrospect, it seems absurd that the United States government felt so threatened by the presence of John Lennon that they tried to have him deported. But that’s what happened, as chronicled in directors David Leaf and John Scheinfeld’s The U.S. vs. John Lennon. The film starts with a familiar […]
It has been one year since the anti-government protest in Bahrain was crushed and many called for a reform of law enforcement in the country. The ex-assistant commissioner of London’s Metropolitan police has taken the task of reform. John Yates is now employed by Bahrain’s Monarchy. Yates resigned from Scotland […]
”What no one seemed to notice,” said a colleague of mine, a philologist, “was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people.” Just think how very wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany. And it became always wider. You know, it doesn’t make […]