Varda Spiegel, at The Blogs

Jun 19, 2018, 1:27 PM

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Play the Holocaust card, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

In this photo taken on January 4, 2017 US Border Patrol agents take Central American immigrants into custody near McAllen, Texas. (AFP PHOTO / GETTY / JOHN MOORE)

A time when children are torn from their parents is the right time for comparisons to the darkest history

Jun 10, 2018, 12:22 PM

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When Israelis feel safe and Americans don’t

Illustrative: A playground by the beach in Jaffa on March 6, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

My friends and relatives in the US were concerned for my safety, but I feel no sense of danger

Apr 17, 2018, 2:21 PM

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The asylum seekers and the flag

Sudanese refugee get arrested by immigration police in front of the Knesset after marching towards Jerusalem from the south in protest of the new "Holot" detention camp for illegal migrants, on Monday, December 17, 2013 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sudanese families were dumped in my town in 2007; we welcomed them -- from both ends of the political spectrum

Mar 27, 2018, 7:11 PM

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Playing the Holocaust card on Passover

A Sudanese man came to the clinic with hands bloodied from barbed wire; how could I not think of my murdered grandmother?

Feb 15, 2018, 3:17 PM

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‘Defending’ Netanyahu with the new S-words

Illustrative: Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid (left), at the Holot Institute of Technology for the Holocaust Survivors Conference on December 29, 2014. (Flash90)

Bullying those who speak out against abuse and corruption is a poor defense of Netanyahu

Jan 31, 2018, 12:29 PM

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Israel needs a Tea Party — Remembering Haim Gouri z”l

Haim Gouri (left) in the Palmach in 1949. (Palmach Archive/Public Domain)

I mourn the loss of poet Haim Gouri, as well as the Israel his songs made worth the effort

Jan 15, 2018, 9:22 PM

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#BlackLivesMatter in Israel too

Simegnew Yosef Naga, 34, holds up a photo of his grandmother, who lives in Ramle, in his home in Gondar on April 15, 2016. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Does the Law of Return, that basic tenet of Zionism, not apply to all Jews, regardless of the color of their skin?

Nov 28, 2017, 1:57 PM

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An Israeli represents Reform Judaism as a dog’s bar mitzvah

Illustrative: A group of American Conservative and Reform rabbis and the Women of the Wall movement members hold Torah scrolls during a protest march against the government’s failure to deliver a new prayer space, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City, November 2, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

An Israeli journalist stooped to tar and feather Progressive Jewry, and mangled the notion of a Jewish People

Nov 6, 2017, 1:35 PM

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Larry David’s SNL jokes moved Jew-haters to laughter and Holocaust survivors to tears

Larry David in August 2014. (Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images via JTA)

The Curb Your Enthusiasm creator's jokes moved Jew-haters to laughter and Holocaust survivors to tears

Oct 20, 2017, 12:02 PM

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Mansplaining Israel-style — #MeToo #NotAboutYou

To all who, like Blazer's Raanan Shaked, find curbing their base impulses oppressive: #MeToo is #NotAboutYou

About Me

Varda Spiegel was Nurse-Director of the Bedouin Mobile Unit of the Negev, later serving as Maternal-Child Health Director for the Ministry of Health Jerusalem District.