Bruce S. Ticker
Ticker is a freelance writer based in Philadelphia. He may be contacted via bruce.ticker@sdjewishworld.com
Biden Could Force Stark Choices For Hamas
Hamas terrorists might wish to relish their victory over Israel while they can – their cynical public relations victory. Israel is an ogre in the eyes of the world, Hamas is champion of the...
Arafat’s Refusal to Accept an Independent State Led to Subsequent Warfare
Sweeping up glass blown out of the windows of his men’s clothing store in Gaza City, Basim Deyazada told a Washington Post reporter last Friday, “This is the first time the Palestinians made a revolution against...
Gun Violence: A Visitor From Jerusalem Unsafe In Israel Or America
Israelis Efraim Gordon and Yehuda Guetta learned too late that they were not safe whether waiting for a bus in the West Bank or visiting relatives in Baltimore.
Just two weeks prior to the present...
Israeli Right-Wingers Exacerbate Hostilities with Palestinians
Whenever trouble erupted in Israel during the 1980s, “colleagues” in my newsroom in central Pennsylvania would gaze at me suspiciously. At a laundromat in the same small town, a Democratic city councilman complained about...
Human Rights Watch Report Spews Up The Usual Omissions And Distortions
Palestinian society paints itself into a corner for more than seven decades, and then their friends liken Israel to an apartheid state.
I pored through the first several pages of the Human Rights Watch report...
Anti-Israel candidates run for citywide NYC offices
Jewish New Yorkers could be governed by two anti-Israel candidates now running for citywide offices.
A mayoral candidate who dubbed Israel “an apartheid state” last December, Dianne Morales, was afforded a measure of legitimacy by...
France’s Insanity Defense Is Itself Insane
To paraphrase our insanity defense standard, a suspect who cannot distinguish between right and wrong in killing his Jewish neighbor is not guilty of committing a crime.
France’s version of our Supreme Court moved close...
Arab Refugee Aid Could Endanger Israelis
Arab nations invaded the new state of Israel a few years before I was born, at a time when the world was still shaken by the fury of World War II. Arab leaders urged...
Column: Mississippi Senator Is False Witness To Sabbath Sojourn For Voters
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Mississippi Republican, scores zero for two so far on the facts. She falsely claims that Sunday is the Sabbath besides Saturday and, far more importantly, that our civil rights revolve...
Colorado Shooting Suspect Has History of Mental Instability
Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa lost control. That happened In November 2017 during his senior year at Arvada West High School. On March 22, he would once again lose control, this time in a Boulder...