The Irish cricket team is about to play 5 one day cricket matches against Afghanistan . Men v Men. Women are banned from playing cricket in Afghanistan. They are also banned from taking their children to a park. They must be neither seen nor heard in Afghanistan.
No Irish campaign to stop or boycott the matches. No journalistic outrage at their taking place. No Irish political activists or womenโs groups interested. Why? Afghanistan is ruled by fundamentalist, authoritarian, Islamic misogynists. No one Jewish to blame or demonise.
Irish political activists who speak the language of human rights have no real interest in human rights. Only interested in weaponising human rights language to promote a malevolent, deeply ingrained, indoctrinated, anti semitic agenda.
Erasing Amos:
Last night someone blotted out the sign put by city of Arad next to the house where my parents lived for almost thirty years.
Many of Amos Ozโs books were written in his study in the basement of this house.
Our family's response:
It is sad to see our father's and grandfather's name erased from the sign next to his home, in the city he loved so much, in the country he loved so much.
I will not venture to guess who the vandals might be. But I suspect they are political foes rather than disgruntled readers of his novels.
The Israeli public is increasingly alert to the steep rise of illiberalism that is destroying our soul and our behavior. May this be yet another wake up call.