A few weeks back, during the Olympic games in Beijing, I wrote about China bashing in some of the Israeli media and my concern over the uprising trend of biased if not ignorant reporting about China. I was attempting to promote more cultural understanding and sensitivity in media reporting and highlight some of the [...]
I’m the only Israeli student in southern Taiwan, as far as I’m aware, and although it sounds a bit culturally lonely, it does bring up some unique opportunities. During Friday and Saturday I joined the Israeli Technion president, Dr. Yitzhak Apeloig, while he was visiting NCKU with his charming wife – Mrs. Tzippi Apeloig. It [...]
This is a bit far-fetched, even for me, but fascinating nonetheless. Here’s some of the story from Oniazuma :
Israeli officials publicly acknowledge the mysterious similarities between Judaism and Japan. Recently, in March of 2007, Rabbi Avichail of the Israeli Investigative Body Amishav, which searches for descendants of the Lost Tribes, arrived in Japan. Although they [...]
Now, that’s bloody hilarious. Jewish American Judy adopts a somewhat unusual Chinese baby … Here’s Judy Alive :
Meet Judy Shapiro,a lonely New York City woman who adopts a Chinese baby girl. When the baby arrives from China, however, it’s a 30-year-old Chinese woman who was kidnapped in Beijing and sold on the black market [...]
Following is a letter written by a Chinese as a reaction to how the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony was covered by the Israeli channel 1 and a remark by Oren Nehari. It continues the series of posts regarding Sino-phobia in Israeli media and the use of extremely negative language against the Chinese people and government.
Dear [...]
I can’t help it. I find the question of whether Taiwan is more similar to Israel or Palestine intriguing, even though one can also easily claim that it’s similar to both or to neither. Aluf Ben has an interesting article in Haaretz from a few days back titled “The Taiwan of the Middle East” :
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The anti-China atmosphere surrounding the Olympics has reached, IMHO, an all time high. Never have I seen so many people talk so negatively about China as I have in the past week. People and reporters who know nothing about China and get their entire information through cliches and stereotype make the at most outrageous [...]
Israeli newspapers are all over the success of the Israeli headed Koolanoo group in China with the third largest social website called 360Quan. Koolanoo, in case you were wondering, means “all of us” in Hebrew, and I believe the whole thing actually started out with a Jewish social network cloned into Chinese. How bizarre.
360Quan [...]
