An old friend of mine, Dorit Naaman, did an email blast yesterday about being targeted by a right wing Israeli group that monitors Israeli academics and defames them. An idiot who knows nothing about Dorit's work named Lee Kaplan from isracampus.org is incensed that Dorit is an Israeli who supports Palestinian independence as a way to peace in the Mid East. So he called her a pornographer and now when you google her name his hate-filled rant shows up. However, if you would like to help out, click on the links below and those real articles that Dorit ACTUALLY wrote and what she ACTUALLY stands for (hmm, academic articles about cinema - heavens!) will sort higher than this scurrilous attack.

Oh, and the photos, figs are in season again. They look nice on the new counter top.

http://www.publicjournal.ca/submissions.htm

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2342/is_1_36/ai_89985880?tag=artBody;col1

http://www.jff.org.il/?CategoryID=547&ArticleID=553

http://www.wbez.org/audio_library/od_ramar03.asp

http://www.yorku.ca/crs/Refuge/refuge_-_volume_22,_issue_no__1.htm

http://www.unescocenter.gr/programm.htm

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/512624?prevSearch=Dorit+Naaman

http://www.digipopo.org/content/

http://www.film.queensu.ca/Dorit.html

http://www.ir-amim.org.il/Eng/?CategoryID=274&ArticleID=309

http://www.rabble.ca/in_her_own_words.shtml?x=58505

http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/cinema_journal/v040/40.4naaman.html

http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/nwsa_journal/v018/18.3naaman.html

http://inscribe.iupress.org/doi/abs/10.2979/HYP.2008.23.2.17