Category: Israel

Bookworm Beat 6/18/25: A special Israel-Iran War illustrated edition

Posted on June 18, 2025June 18, 2025 by Bookworm

This one doesn’t need an introduction, other than to say Am Israel Chai!

Bookworm Beat 10/11/23: A special Israel illustrated edition

Posted on October 11, 2023October 11, 2023 by Bookworm

What happened in Israel is a declaration of war and a war crime. The West’s inability to distinguish between the moral and the immoral is also a war crime. Some of these memes and videos may help clarify things.

Lindsey Graham’s talk about the current Israeli-Arab conflict

Posted on May 21, 2021May 21, 2021 by Bookworm

Lindsey Graham strongly supports Israel and is proud to say it out loud. Kudos to him for doing so! On Wednesday, I had the opportunity to hear Sen. Lindsey Graham when he spoke to a packed auditorium at the beautiful Chabad of Charleston, South Carolina. It was refreshing to hear

Bookworm Beat 5/18/21 — the mostly Israel illustrated edition

Posted on May 18, 2021May 18, 2021 by Bookworm

Don’t let the title of this post fool you. While it’s mostly about Israel, there’s a whole bunch of other relevant stuff here too. BONUS: A mind-bending, vaguely hallucinogenic Danser Encore from a town in Italy near Brindisi

Stuff to help understand Israel right now

Posted on May 13, 2021May 13, 2021 by Bookworm

This post is a grab bag of stuff — articles, memes, informative posts — regarding what’s happening in Israel. Bari Weiss: It appears that standing up for the right of innocent people to protect themselves from a genocidal terrorist organization has become extremely risky to one’s “brand.” And so lies

War in Israel and my old Volkswagen

Posted on May 13, 2021 by Bookworm

The latest war between Israel and Hamas again raises an important question: Is this the war that Israel will finally fight to win? When I started college, I bought a used Volkswagen at a very good price from the widow of a family friend. It had been her husband’s car

An unexpected meeting with my past

Posted on January 29, 2021January 29, 2021 by Bookworm

If you like a cute story and are interested in helping Israel, then this post is for you. Back in the 1970s, when even leftists still considered Israel a good nation, Israeli Folk Dancing was very popular in America. From the time I was around 13 until I was around

Did you know that Rick Steves is an anti-Semite and anti-Zionist?

Posted on March 2, 2020 by Bookworm

I regret that I cannot go back in time and boycott Rick Steves because, back in the day, I watched a lot of his travel videos and bought his products. As long-time readers of my blog know, I am a very well-traveled person. For a decade, every time we went

No. 10 Bookworm Podcast — Tlaib, Omar, Israel, and the Times takes on slavery

Posted on August 18, 2019August 18, 2019 by Bookworm

The advent of the internet means that ordinary people like me can loudly criticize Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and the Times‘ ridiculous 1619 project. (If you prefer listening to reading, the companion podcast is embedded below, or you can listen to it at Libsyn or at Apple podcasts. I’m trying

Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism are the same thing

Posted on May 1, 2019May 1, 2019 by Bookworm

The only difference between anti-Zionism and antisemitism is semantics — the former is simply the latest manifestation of the world’s oldest hatred. [give_form id=”59195″]

The Bookworm Beat 10/9/2018 — the American life edition and open thread

Posted on October 9, 2018 by Bookworm

Here it is — a round-up about American life in the wake of the Kavanaugh hearings, with everything from politics to plumbing thrown in. This will be my last big post before my week-long hiatus (during which, as I said, I’m sure something big will happen). Fear not, though, because

Israel uses social media to expose the corrupt Iran regime

Posted on July 30, 2018July 30, 2018 by Bookworm

Bibi Netanyahu releases another powerful video speaking directly to the Iranian people — and the world — about the corrupt Iran government. One of the complaints I’ve had for decades is that Israel utterly failed to understand that, in today’s world, it’s not enough to win a military victory; you

Happy Independence Day, Israel!

Posted on April 19, 2018 by Bookworm

60 Minutes uses subtle moral equivalence to tar Israel

Posted on April 4, 2018April 4, 2018 by Bookworm

60 Minutes recently did a show on Daniel Barenboim’s Middle Eastern orchestra — and snuck a sneaky shiv into Israel in the first minute. This past Sunday, 60 Minutes did a profile of Daniel Barenboim, who has put together an orchestra made up of Middle Eastern Muslims, including Iran, Syria, and Lebanon,

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel Trump acknowledged reality

The Bookworm Beat 12/7/2017 — the Jerusalem illustrated edition

Posted on December 7, 2017December 7, 2017 by Bookworm

Trump’s new Jerusalem policy, recognizes reality, ends a failed paradigm, begins a new era that finally promises peace in the Middle East. Congratulations #Jerusalem! pic.twitter.com/SIMqfB5I6h — Tel Aviv (@TelAviv) December 6, 2017 I was all ready to celebrate the big news but Linda Sarsour’s bakery is refusing to top my