Gabriel T. Erbs

Faked, but not forgotten [Photos]

By Gabriel T. Erbs March 14, 2012

The revelation that a pro-Palestinian UN official posted and circulated faked photos of victims is no longer startling. (The image, while graphic can be viewed here.) We know that pro-Palestinian groups have staged and filmed fake videos, and do so with impunity. On a token scale, pro-Israel activists have done the same. A Rabbi-friend of…

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How can I miss you when you won’t go away? [Israel Apartheid Week]

By Gabriel T. Erbs March 9, 2012

Just when you thought Israel Apartheid Week was over, IAW Madrid makes a showing with one event – one week after most cities have wrapped up the program. Rebecca Powell delivered this dispatch from Madrid: With a tinge of fear, I planned to go witness some of the Spanish events myself. Yet, with only two…

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Le Dor Va Dor: Remembering the Past, Creating the Future

By Gabriel T. Erbs March 4, 2012

Russian writer Judith Pearly interviews Moti Sverdlov, the man responsible for cataloging the thousands of “lost” Jewish graves in the former Soviet Union: What does the phrase “Jewish heritage” say to you? Is it the traditions we keep? The religion to which we affiliate? Or the memory of our ancestors? […] One day, when my…

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What happened to IAW at Portland State? [Israeli Apartheid Week]

By Gabriel T. Erbs February 29, 2012

The level of anti-Israel discourse at Portland State University is a “5.” What I mean to say is that pro-Israel students needn’t avoid the random keffiyah, but at the same time, a campus-wide Am Yisroel Chai party isn’t in the works either. The stairways of the student union are usually peppered with the latest BDS…

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(Almost) the First Jewish Ugandan Parliamentarian [Global Jewish Voice]

By Gabriel T. Erbs February 9, 2012

A local Jewish politician campaigns for the goyishe vote – in Uganda: At one time, Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, who spent five years at the seminary of the American Jewish University in Los Angeles and a year in Israel, was planning to run for Parliament in Uganda – perhaps one day to run for President. […] With…

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Piss on the Queen of England [Global Jewish Voice]

By Gabriel T. Erbs January 23, 2012

Israeli native Liran Shamriz grew up with rabid, Israel-obsessed articles an international media mainstay. Here, he turns the tables. French people are whores and Americans are all fat and stupid. If that makes you angry, then I’ve succeeded. If not, just tell me who you are and I will find the words to make you…

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When Tahrir was my hangout [Abroad]

By Gabriel T. Erbs November 28, 2011

As we sat drinking knock-off, yoghurt-tasting whiskey (“Johnn Walke Red Label”) and smoked hashish cigarettes, it was hard to imagine things would ever be different for Mohey and Mahmoud, our Egyptian friends who lived their whole lives under President Hosni Mubarak’s iron fist. Their rhetoric didn’t invite much room for change. They called the entire…

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Sabra League Baseball [Global Jewish Voice]

By Gabriel T. Erbs November 24, 2011

Israel may field a baseball team for the next World Baseball Classic. Can you say ק-ו-פ-ק-ס ? The latest from the Global Jewish Voice: Sabra League Baseball By Gabriel T. Erbs in Portland Citing a recent ESPN article, Heeb Magazine reported that a slew of former MLB players met with Israeli baseball officials to discuss the potential of an…

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Devotion to free speech should fight ignorance, not enshrine it [Global Jewish Voice]

By Gabriel T. Erbs November 16, 2011

Some consider Nick Griffin a racist, some a hero. The British National Pary Chairman was (almost) invited to debate the death penalty at Nottingham University. If you haven’t heard anything about the backlash, check out Rebecca Schapira’s latest article for the Global Jewish Voice: Education Should Battle Ignorance at University By Rebecca Schapira in Nottingham…

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Our new blog: The Global Jewish Voice

By Gabriel T. Erbs November 3, 2011

In the Medieval Ages, Christians developed the myth of the Wandering a Jew, a Judean who refused to help a soon-to-be-crucified Jesus and was cursed to wander the Earth for eternity. Historians agree that’s awfully silly but the epithet endures (sometimes reclaimed by Jews themselves). Nevertheless, it’s time to face the facts: Jews live and…

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