• Snail Ask Why Israel and Palestine?

    Snail Ask Why Israel and Palestine?

    My friend spoke about Zionists with such profound confidence like it was institutional knowledge: put unleaded gas in your car, Hurricanes below the equator turn counter clockwise, and Zionists are Nazis.

  • Daily Israel and Judaism Fact 2: Zionism and Herzl

    Thomas Herzl, the figure oft mistakenly attributed by antisemites as the founder of Zionism, is also credited to have said it didn’t matter where Jews got a homeland. Antizionists especially like pointing to Herzl’s…

  • Daily Israel and Judaism Fact 1:

    The area of the Levant now called Israel was once called Judea. In 70 CE, after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman Empire, Titus changed the name to Syria Palestina to punish the…