By Monessa Shapiro* Dear Ahed Firstly, let me tell you how sad I am that you are in prison. Prison is certainly not the place for teenagers. If only you could be shopping with your friends, swimming in the pool or going to a movie. But, more importantly, I am both heartbroken and angry, because […]
It’s incitement to Murder! Falseness, deceit, dishonesty, mendacity, pretense, duplicity – take your pick – can describe some of the Muslim world’s predictable knee-jerk reaction to Israel installing metal detectors placed outside at the entrance to al-Ḥaram al-Qudsī al-Šarīf, (“the Noble Sanctuary of Jerusalem”), or as referred to by Jews as the Temple Mount – but it is far worse. It […]