Israel

The Agonists of 'The Gatekeepers'

Shin Bet vets ponder the Israeli state they've protected

[UPDATED with ASUCI Supporting Divestment:] UCI Student Panel Calls for Divesting from Firms Aiding Israeli "Apartheid"

See Update No. 3 at the end of page 3 of this post on leaders of UCI's Associated Students signing the resolution urging the university to divest from named companies for human rights abuses in Palestine. See Update Nos. 1-2 on ASUCI's legislative council unanimously passing the resolution urging di ... More >>

California Assemblywoman Targets Anti-Israel Campus Activism, Or: Five Criticisms of Israel that Are Inherently Not Anti-Semitic

The California Assembly recently passed a resolution that calls upon college and university leadership to condemn anti-Semitism on campus. Assemblywoman Linda Halderman (R-Fresno) authored the resolution, which demands "no public resources will be allowed to be used for any anti-Semitic or any ... More >>

It is No Dream: The Life of Theodor Herzl

Art Theatre

VIDEO: Travis Allen, 72nd Assembly District Candidate, Believes Israel Has a "Divine Right" to the West Bank

This fall, voters in the 72nd Assembly District get to pick between two Republican yahoos: Los Alamitos mayor Troy Edgar and some businessman named Travis Allen. Allen made news earlier this year after it was revealed he had donated to Democrats in a previous life, a GOP sin worse than being a child ... More >>

Biola University to Hold Conference on Nuclear War, and How to Get Jews and Muslims Saved

​Nothing gets believers excited like the end of the world. To that end, Biola University this weekend will host a conference titled "Israel, the Church and the Middle East Crisis", featuring Calvary Chapel favorite Joel Rosenberg, a doom-and-gloomer in the Hal Lindsey mold, and author of "The G ... More >>

The OCeeker: Calvary Chapel, the Mothership, and the Chuck Smith Death Watch

​Chuck Smith is dying. While this is good news for Smith (for to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord!), it's terrible news for those at Calvary Chapel who have pinned their blessed hope on being raptured away with an icon of American evangelicalism and the chief cornerstone ... More >>

Promised Land Sees Israel Through the Eyes of Surfers

​A film about surfers of different faiths coming together in Israel, of all places, makes its U.S. premiere at a sold-out screening in Dana Point this evening.Promised Land, which was directed by Todd Morehead and produced by Morehead and Carlsbad Christian nonprofit Walking on Water, screens at 6 ... More >>

Rick Warren: Patron Saint of Humblebraggadocio

​Pound for pound, preachers are the best humblebraggers around because they can rattle off a list of professional accomplishments while giving God the glory for "working through them." It's a nifty trick that can be pulled off only by those who make a living chatting with the Lord and sharing his ... More >>

Aziz Duwaik, Palestinian Leader Who Secretly Met with UC Irvine Students, Held by Israel

​Speaker of the Palestinian parliament Aziz Duwaik, whose secret meeting with UC Irvine students and faculty visiting Israel in 2009 raised cackles in some corners, was ordered to be held without trial for six months, his lawyer said today. The senior Hamas official, whose name is alternately s ... More >>

[UPDATED with Delay:] "Irvine 11" (-1) Case Heads for Trial

​UPDATE, AUG. 15, 2:33 P.M.: The "Irvine 11" trial (now with one fewer defendant) was scheduled to begin today in Santa Ana.That didn't happen.Trial has been rescheduled to Aug. 29, which is when jury selection is scheduled to begin.

[UPDATED with Defense Motion Denied:] "Irvine 11" Case Heads for Trial

​UPDATE, JUNE 21, 11:51 A.M.: An Orange County judge last week denied a defense motion claiming 11 college students cannot be prosecuted criminally for disrupting an Israeli ambassador's speech at UC Irvine.Attorneys for the so-called "Irvine 11," who are enrolled at UCI and UC Riverside, argued t ... More >>

UC Irvine's Controversial Muslim Student Union Wins Anteater Award

​Disrupting a speech on campus by an Israeli government official. The suspension, probation and criminal prosecution that followed the incident. The annual teach-ins on the Israel-Palestine issue some have dubbed "Hate Week."Yep, headlines involving the Muslim Student Union at UC Irvine have been ... More >>

UCI Muslim Student Union Event's Name was Less Threatening, But Critics Charge It Was Still Extreme

​Perhaps it was the UC Irvine-imposed suspension or the negative publicity over the disruption of Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren's February 2010 speech on campus or just plain old growing up, but the embattled Muslim Student Union just presented a kinder- and gentler-sounding program ... More >>

'Miral' Shows Off Its Muddle-East Politics

Style, but little substance in Julian Schnabel's Palestine plea

Nuclear Meltdown Might Cause Sushi Shortage

ynetnews.com​With as many sushi restaurants as we have in Orange County, the possibility of a sushi shortage after the tsunami disaster hadn't crossed my mind until this story in Israel's Ynet Business News. It's true that nearly all the hamachi sold is farm-raised and most likely routed through J ... More >>

Free Ticket Tuesday: We're Giving Away Four Pairs of Tickets to See Infected Mushroom

​Originally formed as a duo by Erez Eisen and Amit Duvdevani in northern Israel, Infected Mushroom's trippy/psychedelic music has influenced electronic-music fiends and stoned groovers alike. They met in Goa, India, in 1996 through a mutual DJ friend and started making music for fun. In 1998, they ... More >>

Macy Gray Ignores Calls to Boycott Israel

Marc Pagani​For soul singer Macy Gray, it started out as a simple Facebook status update inviting discussion concerning upcoming concerts. "I'm booked for 2 shows in Tel Aviv. I'm getting alot of letters from activists urging/begging me to boycott by NOT performing in protest of Apartheid agai ... More >>

Elia Suleiman's Arab-Israeli War Within

The director's lifelong identity battle is played out onscreen

Article Asks: Is UCI Safe for Jews?

OCHillel.orgWelcome. (Or un-welcome?)​Lisa Armony has an exhaustive piece in the April 13 Jewish Journal whose title tells it all: "Is UC Irvine Safe for Jews?"Her conclusion? Yes and no.UCI has made international headlines in recent years, dubbed by observers an unwelcome environment for Jewish ... More >>

The "Irvine 11" Fights the Power

​As they fill out their AARP membership cards, '60s burnouts can rejoice that a group of campus agitators has at last come along to rival the infamous Chicago Seven.Mamas and papas, introducing the "Irvine 11"! Something's happening here, and what it is ain't exactly kosher. The Irvine 11 are the ... More >>

A Modest Proposal From Jarret Lovell in Light of UCI Muslim Protester Arrests

KUCI.eduCal State Fullerton professor and KUCI radio host Jarret Lovell.​Jarret S. Lovell is a Cal State Fullerton professor of politics, UC Irvine graduate and radio show host and longtime Orange County progressive activist. Among the many causes he has taken up over the years is social justice f ... More >>

ADL Opposes Jewish Boycott of UCI, Gently Admonishes Chancellor Drake

​Not all organizations fighting anti-Semitism are the same. Take the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which announced opposition today to calls by "some in the Jewish community" to boycott UC Irvine over perceived anti-Israel activity on campus.Who would that "some" be? How about the Zionist Organiz ... More >>

Facebook Free Speech Page Denies Free Speech

​A Facebook page has been created "in light of the recent event at UC Irvine in which 11 members of the Muslim Student Union @ UCI were arrested for attempts to silence and censor a speaker whose views they disagreed with. Free speech is NOT negotiable!"Too bad the page does not practice what it p ... More >>

McKinney Follows UC Irvine Speech With Israeli Detention [UPDATED, THE SEQUEL]

UPDATE: MCKINNEY IS ON HER WAY HOME, REPORTS ATLANTA-JOURNAL CONSTITUTION ...Former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-Georgia) is shown speaking at UC Irvine May 13 as part of the Muslim Student Union's controversial, three-week "Israel: The Politics of Genocide" teach-in. Here she makes the c ... More >>

Like Anti-Israel Speakers ala UCI? Go to Israel

The anonymous contributor known as "the middle" on Jewlicious, which clings to the Muslim Student Union controversy at UC Irvine like the tight white t-shirt does to the shapely Jewlicious Apparel model on the "100 percent Kosher" site's home page, writes that the Irvine campus is getting a run for ... More >>

Were Muslim Student Union Free Speech Rights Infringed Upon?

UC Irvine administrators drew widespread criticism for allowing--or not damning vehemently enough--the Muslim Student Union's May 5-21 wrath-a-thon "Israel: The Politics of Genocide." But fourth year psychology major Alaa Alomar accuses the same university officials of denying the same free speech r ... More >>

[Special Screenings] 'Under the Bombs,' 'Border Café,' 'The Big Lebowski,' More

Pros and Cons to Muslim Student Union Event at UCI

The debate over the appropriateness of the UC Irvine Muslim Student Union's "Israel: The Politics of Genocide" event we told you about Friday (and which continues through May 21) has spilled into the page of the student newspaper New University.Specifically, it turns up in the opinion section, where ... More >>

UCI Muslim Student Union Event Draws Ire of Local Jews

As this promotional video shows, UC Irvine's Muslim Student Union is at it again, presenting 18 days of events this month under the banner "Israel: the Politics of Genocide." Among those coming to the campus through May 21 are: George Galloway, the British member of Parliament who speaks against th ... More >>

[Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Strangers,' 'Sid and Nancy,' More

Want to Get Away, Really Get Away? Come to Israel

    According to Travel Mole, "the online community for the travel and tourism industry," visiting Israel is at an all-time high amid the bombs raining down courtesy of the Hamas theme park: Despite the Strife, Tourism in Israel is at an all Time High Perhaps it's the ... More >>

Little Gaza Protest: the More Things Don't Change

Here is a photo from the protest at the "Little Gaza" area of Brookhurst Street over Israel's violent actions against Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip.But here's the twist: photographer S. Twair did not snap the shot during Sunday's demonstration, which drew about 200 people over four hours pro ... More >>

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Kicking Aztlán

You can't protest us; we're already protesting you!

On Saturday, OC Weekly staff writer Luke Y. Thompson and myself took to the streets to see what was going on in Anaheim as a left-wing group known as the A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition and put together a fairly huge "Anti-Zionism" protest with only a few days notice. Fairly predictably, a smaller scale "Pr ... More >>

Ace Up His Sleeve

Joe Carnahans overly slick, heavily edited dark comedy works despite itself

Baby Killer Redux

Orange County's diaspora of ethnicities is finally coming together against a common foe: whitey. On Saturday, Anaheim's Little Gaza played host to a protest against the ongoing Israeli destruction of Lebanon, as well as US support for Israel's efforts. Some went so far as call the Israelis baby-kill ... More >>

DeVore Cries Havoc

"Look at it burning." -Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah leader, speaking as his group's rockets struck a US-made Israeli warship Well, we're in for it now. Israel, Lebanon and Palestine are at each others' throats. Amr Moussa, General-Secretary of the Arab League, has declared the Middle East pea ... More >>

Terrorists Attack US Power Plant

Israeli terrorists have caused significant damage to a power plant in Palestine, insured by the U.S. government for up to $48 million dollars. READ THE STORY ON ALJAZEERA.COM Tony Snow, White House Chief of Verbal Diarrhea, previously described Israel's current assault on the Palestinians as legi ... More >>

What's Good for the Goose ain't for the Zealot

So some young, misdirected, religious zealots who authorities conceive were too impoverished and unsophisticated to carry out plots to blow up an FBI building and the Sears Tower in Chicago are arrested in Miami. By the way, the kids are black. Meanwhile, older, misdirected zealots who reportedly ha ... More >>

Theory of Flight

An unwilling guardian angel tends to a harried Haifa clan in Broken Wings

Rough Road, Messy Map

The all-too-human comedy of The Holy Land

Letters

Weaponless Warrior

Newport Beachs Radhika Sainaths War on Terrorism

War College

67 things you might want to know before the bombs drop

Diary of a mad county

Human Rights and Wrongs

UC Irvine fest exposes worldwide injustice

The Little Engine Who Took His Place in the Underclass

And other new-millennium stories for American kids

Couched in Ignorance

Your TV and the Middle East

Oy, No! We Won't Go!