Monthly Archives: September 2005

My paper attracted a mountain of support at bmj.com, with many correspondents adding personal testimony to the case. It also attracted a mountain of criticism, indeed vilification. Here the general tone was one of outrage and of almost unconditional refutation [...]

  Israeli cultural icons S.Y. Agnon and Natan Alterman may soon join the ranks of Dante, Velasquez and Goethe. Not that anyone is planning just yet to establish a world institute for the dissemination of Israeli culture named after either [...]

The action was planned in front of the American Consul on Nablus Road, but the Israeli police denied the school children permission from holding their nonviolent demonstration there. Dmitri Diliani from the Committee of Private Schools in Jerusalem said, "It [...]