Israel Politics

Dieses Hörbuch richtet sich an alle Menschen mit gutem Gewissen. Natürlich sind sie gegen Homophobie, Rassismus und andere Arten der Diskriminierung. Sicher sind sie auch gegen Antisemitismus in jeder Form. Aber zählen Juden wirklich genauso in den Debatten der Gegenwart? David Baddiel ist in Großbritannien berühmt als politischer Kommentator und Comedian. Als prominente jüdische Stimme stellt er bohrende Fragen: Gelten Juden wirklich als handfest bedroht, genau wie andere Minderheiten? Und falls nicht - warum?

America’s anti-gun lobby wants you to “leave guns to the professionals.” The police and military will protect you, they say. Really? Ask the people of Israel how well that worked out for them. On October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists murdered 1,200 Israelis in cold blood. Civilians waited in anguish for the army or police to rescue them. Why? Because the country’s restrictive gun laws left most people unarmed. The Israeli government made an immediate about-face after October 7. They loosened gun laws to allow as many citizens as possible to arm themselves.

A groundbreaking collection of essays by celebrated international writers bears witness to the human cost of 50 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. In Kingdom of Olives and Ash, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, two of today's most renowned novelists and essayists, have teamed up with the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence and a host of illustrious writers to tell the stories of the people on the ground in the contested territories.

Desde 1951 el Mossad, conocido como ‘el Instituto’, se convirtió en uno de los más temibles servicios de espionaje al mando del Estado de Israel. Mitad mito, mitad realidad, el Mossad y sus Katsas supieron salvaguardar ese halo de misterio y secretismo que los convirtió en auténticas leyendas cuando en 1960 una unidad del Metsada secuestró al criminal de guerra Adolf Eichmann en Argentina y, tras trasladarlo clandestinamente a Israel, fue juzgado y ejecutado en la horca.

On October 3, 1985, Leon Klinghoffer, a disabled Jewish New Yorker, and his wife boarded the Achille Lauro to celebrate their 36th wedding anniversary with a Mediterranean cruise. Four days later, four Palestinian fedayeen hijacked the Italian luxury liner and took the passengers and crew hostage. Leon Klinghoffer was shot in the head, his body and wheelchair thrown overboard. His murder became a flashpoint in the intractable struggle between Israelis and Arabs and gave Americans a horrifying preview of what it means when terrorism hits home.

Overlooking the Border continues the dialogue surrounding the social history of Jerusalem. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the book juxtaposes Israeli and Palestinian personal narratives about the past with contemporary museum exhibits, street plaques, tourism, and real estate projects that are reshaping the city since the decline of the peace process and the second intifada. As sites of memory, Jerusalem's homes, streets, and natural areas form the setting for emotionally charged narratives about belonging and rights to place.

As the morning sunlight crept over the limestone walls of Jerusalem's old city, two young Americans flagged down a bus and got on. It was 6:45 a.m., February 25, 1996, and Sara Duker and Matthew Eisenfeld settled into their seats as the door closed on Jerusalem's Number 18 bus which would take them across the spine of this ancient city. After a few more stops, their bus turned on Jerusalem's Jaffa Road and rolled up a slight hill and stopped again. A young man, who seemed to be a student and was carrying a black duffle bag, got on. No one paid much attention to him, witnesses said later.

A groundbreaking collection of essays by celebrated international writers bears witness to the human cost of 50 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.

April 13, 2006. A Jerusalem Post headline reads: "Jericho man murdered over home sale." The 42 year-old father of eight was kidnapped, shot seven times, thrown into his car, and set on fire, because he had sold his Jerusalem apartment to Jews. Radical Islam has long desired to seize Jerusalem and make it off limits to Christian and Jewish believers. In this revealing book, Dore Gold, former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, reminds us that the war on terror is also a war on faith.

On a cold, cloudy day in early February 1985, Shelley Wachsmann, then resident nautical archaeologist for the Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums, drove to Kibbutz Ginosar, an agricultural settlement near the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Two brothers, avid amateur archaeologists, had found a boat buried in the lake, its outlines revealed by receding lake waters. The boat was "possibly ancient," according to the handwritten note placed on Wachsmann's desk a day or two before.

Benjamin Netanyahu is one of the longest serving Prime Ministers of Israel. For much of the world, Netanyahu is a right-wing nationalist zealot; for many Israelis he is a centrist who is too soft on Arabs and backs down too easily in a fight. Love him or loathe him, Netanyahu has been at the very centre of Arab-Israeli politics since 1990, when he became the telegenic Israeli spokesman for CNN's coverage of the Persian Gulf War, arguably ushering in the Americanization of the Israeli media.

Three people living in Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem embark on distinct journeys that converge at "the file"; their efforts to admit Palestine to the Olympics in the early 20th century. Their pivotal roles in history have been purposely omitted from official record, kept secret, or forgotten. Why? Because of the "Nazi Olympics" in 1936 in Berlin. And because of the death in 1972 of eleven Israeli Olympic athletes in the Munich Massacre. This book narrates the previously untold history of a Palestine Olympic Committee recognized before the creation of the State of Israel in 1948.

An American, secular, diasporic Jew, Lis Harris grew up with the knowledge of the historical wrongs done to Jews. In adulthood, she developed a growing awareness of the wrongs they in turn had done to the Palestinian people. This gave her an intense desire to understand how the Israelis’ history led them to where they are now. However, she found that top-down political accounts and insider assessments made the people most affected seem like chess pieces.

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There are two smoking guns provided in this audiobook. One describes the advantage that the UK Square Mile took in the financial fleecing of the United States. The second is the advantage Israel took in establishing a financial incentive to neocons, Rothschilds, and other UK wealth to push for regime change in the Middle East. The Anglo-American Empire has adopted a plan for dominance in the Middle East. This dominance taken to its logical conclusion is dangerous and is based upon greed and power. The USA has been abused by both the UK and Israel in this process.

At 4:30 AM on Monday, May 31, 2010, Israeli commandos, boarding from sea and air, attacked the six boats of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla as it sailed through international waters attempting to bring humanitarian relief to the beleaguered Palestinians of Gaza. Within minutes, nine peace activists were dead. In these pages, a range of activists, journalists, and analysts piece together the events that occurred that May night, mixing together first-hand testimony and documentary record with hard-headed analysis and historical overview.

"Wer gegen Rassismus und gegen Antisemitismus ist, wer keine blinden Flecken mag, aber dafür gute Sachbücher, sollte dieses Buch lesen". So schrieb 2021 Nele Pollatschek nach dem Erscheinen dieses Buches unter anderem Titel. „Jews don’t count“ – „Juden zählen nicht“ ist nach dem 7. Oktober auch in Deutschland zum geflügelten Wort geworden – und eine bittere Wahrheit von Nahost- bis zu Aiwanger-Debatten. Wir veröffentlichen das bedeutende Buch darum neu mit dem übersetzten Original-Titel und einem aktuellen Vorwort David Baddiels.

Nach Überzeugung des Vatikans kann und darf es sie nicht geben: die sterblichen Überreste Jesu Christi. Doch genau danach sucht die Paläographin Ottavia Salina gemeinsam mit ihrem Mann Farag Boswell und ihrem alten Freund Kaspar Glauser-Röist. Die Spur führt das Trio von der Mongolei über Istanbul bis nach Israel. In den Katakomben des Berges Meron erwarten sie neun mörderische Prüfungen, alle mit Bezug auf die Seligpreisungen der Bergpredigt.

Ohne Kippa geht Levi Ufferfilge nicht aus dem Haus. Tagtäglich bestreitet er mit dem kleinen Stück Stoff auf dem Kopf seinen Alltag. Doch das Sichtbarsein als Jude bleibt nicht ohne Folgen: Antisemitische Anfeindungen, Beleidigungen und kuriose Begegnungen aller Art. Eine erhellende wie schockierende Erzählung über das Jüdischsein in Deutschland heute.

Spannender internationaler Polit-Thriller zum Nahost-Konflikt - fiktiv und doch erschreckend nah an der Realität. Washington, 2018. Als der US-Präsident nach alarmierenden Nachrichten über den Ausbau des iranischen Atomprogramms von den Israelis zu einem Militärschlag gegen Teheran herausgefordert wird, zieht er die Notbremse: Um die nukleare Bedrohung zu verringern, will er einen Abrüstungsvertrag mit seinem russischen Amtskollegen unterschreiben. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt ahnt er jedoch nicht, dass er selbst der ultimativen Krise gegenübersteht: Der palästinensische Top-Terrorist "Der Falke" hat es geschafft, einen Atomsprengkopf in das US-Holocaust-Museum zu schmuggeln.