Mystical Politics

In the continuing series, "Riots on the Temple Mount," our latest entry is from today:  Muslim worshippers clash with police in Ea...

From Shiraz Socialist: on h atred and bigotry on several fronts in Europe . It's not just incitement against the Roma in Hungary, but al...

A rather sweeter piece of news:  In Israeli zoo, newborn kittens bring sand cats back from extinction . Mazal tov! A breed of cat that wa...

Word of the day / Hadarat nashim הדרת נשים : A good article in Haaretz explaining the grammar of the fairly new expression used to refer to ...

Hungary's Far-Right Calls for Zero Tolerance Against Roma. The right-wing Hungarian party Jobbik called for "zero tolerance"...

Peter Ryley of  Fat Man on a Keyboard  has just written an amazing and moving post that is first of all about thirteen posts written by Geo...

Just a note to anyone who wishes to engage in Holocaust denial in the comments to a post on this blog - I will not publish your comment. Som...

The people who started the "Israel loves Iran, Iran loves Israel" campaign back in the spring have a whole new series of photogra...

The author of  Something Sick is Happening in Jerusalem  writes about going to a mall in Jerusalem a few days ago and picking up gas masks f...

Ami Kaufman of +972 magazine writes about how the Iran war fear factor is starting to settle in . He also went to the anti-war demo on Sunda...

I just read a tweet by @NoaMaiman that there are protests happening against looming war with Iran. She wrote: גם היום, משמרת מחאה נגד מלח...

Bradley Burston , on Netanyahu's fateful decision on whether or not to bomb Iran. He went to the local mall to pick up the gas masks for...

Jerusalem held its Gay Pride March today - and I wish I had been there! Here are some photos from the Jerusalem Post . "Welcome...

Ten years ago, on July 31, 2002, a bomb went off in the Frank Sinatra cafeteria at the Hebrew University. Nine people were killed, including...

1. Romney's clueless aides initially scheduled his big fundraiser on Tisha B'Av, a fast day. 2. Romney went to the Western Wall on...

I went to the Old City today, hoping to get up to the Temple Mount, but it was closed in the afternoon to visitors because of Ramadan. I did...

Mitt Romney interfering in Israeli politics at the behest of Netanyahu :  Romney cancels on Yacimovich after meeting with Netanyahu . Much...

Today, Mitt Romney paid a visit to the Western Wall - during the fast day of Tisha B'Av, commemorating the destruction of the first and ...

Interesting story from the AP:  Palestinian official visits Auschwitz memorial . An adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is visi...

Shiraz Socialist , a British socialist blog that is connected to a small left-wing group in Britain, the Alliance for Workers Liberty, just ...