Maurice Ostroff

Maurice Ostroff


  • March 21, 2014

    Factoids and the Green Line

    Tagged on to the end of a word, the suffix "oid" indicates resemblance to that word, for example an anthropoid resembles, but is not, a human being. Norman Mailer coined the word "factoid" to describe a pseudo fact which takes on ...

  • February 20, 2011

    Judge Goldstone Contradicts the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

    Israel has for years complained about the extreme bias of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) which  has issued 35 resolutions condemning Israel since 2006 and only 15 against all other countries in the same period. At a press conference in Jerusa...