Hasby Award nominations time! (nominations closed, seconds open) ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Saturday, December 27, 2014

Nominations time is over for the Hasby Awards; now it is time for you to check out the nominations and second them in the comments if you believe that they should go to the final round.

Don't bother to "second" nominations that were already seconded!

This is a great list, by the way. Definitely check out the nominees!

BEST PRO-ISRAEL TWEETER (Previous winners: Avi Mayer, No Camels)

Arsen Ostrovsky (seconded)

Margie in Tel Aviv (seconded)

CiFWatch (seconded)

William Daroff (seconded)

Hen Mazzig (seconded)

Anarcho-Zionist (seconded)
Yair Rosenberg (seconded)
Brian of London (seconded)
NotAntiSemitic (seconded)
TheWonderingIsraeli
Andreas Fagerbakke
David Ha'Ivri
Tal Ofer (seconded)

BEST PRO-ISRAEL MEDIA OUTLET/WRITER NOT EXCLUSIVE TO ISRAEL (Previous winners: The Commentator and Melanie Philips)

Douglas Murray (seconded)

Gatestone Institute (seconded)

Charles Krauthammer (seconded)

Walter Russell Mead (seconded)

Bret Stephens (WSJ) (seconded)

Terry Glavin

Legal Insurrection (seconded)

Daniel Greenfield (seconded)

Dennis Prager

Colonel Richard Kemp (seconded)
Brendan O'Neil (seconded)
SunNews Media (Canada) (seconded)

BEST YOUNG DEFENDER OF ISRAEL

Ryan Bellerose (seconded)

Chloe Valdary (seconded)

Daniel Mael (seconded)

Mohammed Zoabi (seconded)

Sarah Bernamoff (seconded)
Samantha Hamilton (seconded)
Orit Arfa

Jake Birell (seconded)
Josh Morry

BEST PRO-ISRAEL COMMENTATOR EXCLUSIVE TO MIDDLE EAST/ISRAEL (Previous winners: Barry Rubin and Sarah Honig)

Caroline Glick (seconded)

Martin Kramer (seconded)

Daniel Gordis (seconded)

Evelyn Gordon (seconded)

Khaled Abu Toameh (seconded)

Mudar Zahran (seconded)
Israel Revolt

BEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PRO-ISRAEL ONLINE MEDIA OUTLET (Previous winners: Times of Israel and The Tower)

Algemeiner (seconded)

Israel HaYom (seconded)

Jewish Press (seconded)

Tablet (seconded)

JPost (seconded)

Israel21c (seconded)

Mosaic Magazine (seconded)
YNet (seconded)
Arutz7 (seconded)

BEST MAINSTREAM MEDIA WATCHDOG (Previous winners: Honest Reporting and CAMERA)

BBC Watch (seconded)

CiF Watch (seconded)

Huffington Post Monitor
Presspectiva (seconded)
Honest Reporting Canada (seconded)

BEST WATCHDOG - ARABIC MEDIA AND NGOs (Last year's winner: Palestinian Media Watch)

MEMRI (seconded)

NGO Monitor (seconded)

UN Watch (seconded)

JihadWatch

Atlas Shrugs

David Horowitz Freedom Center
Jonathan D HaLevi

BEST PRO-ISRAEL BLOG (PRESENT COMPANY EXCLUDED) (Previous winners: Daphne Anson, Missing Peace, Israellycool)

Israel Matzav (seconded)

This Ongoing War (seconded)

Jews Down Under (seconded)

Pro-Israel Bay Bloggers (seconded)

5 Minutes for Israel (seconded)

IsraelSeen (seconded)

Thomas Wictor (seconded)

IsraelStreet (seconded)

Abu Yehuda (seconded)
The Mike Report (seconded)
Hen Mazzig in TOI
Israel Shield
Alternative Angle
Blazing Catfur
Diane Bederman
Sarah Tuttle Singer
Cara Lebenzon

BEST PRO-ISRAEL VIDEO

Operation Gaza Breakup

Pat Condell: "Why I Support Israel" (seconded)

"Let's Talk Peace"

Caroline Glick and Danish ambassador (seconded)

Dennis Prager on The Middle East Problem

Ami Horowitz - Berkeley (seconded)

Kenneth Meshoe, A Black South African On Israel And Apartheid (seconded)
Naftali Bennett on Amanpout
Kill All the Jews "Gaza Girls" (Orit Arfa)
Jews Can't Stop (Orit Arfa)
Chloe Valdary, "How Would You Respond to BDS?"
Hamas by Ari Lesser
10 minutes about living on the Gaza border - Dana Bar-On
The Truth About the UN - Danny Ayalon
Columbia U debate Boteach/Stephens vs Beinart/Ibish

BEST PRO-ISRAEL SOCIAL MEDIA PAGE

IDF (idfnadesk) on YouTube (seconded)

StandWithUs (FB, YouTube) (seconded)

Sussex Friends of Israel Facebook (seconded)

Einat Wilf's Facebook

Chloe Valdary Facebook (seconded)

The Israel Project - Facebook (seconded)
Indian Friends of Israel Twitter (seconded)
Canada-Israel Friendship Association
Bat-Zion Susskind
Kay Wilson
StandWithUs Arabic (seconded)

BEST SPEECH

George Deek in Oslo (seconded)
Rachel Frenkel, Bat Galim Sha'er & Iris Yifrah at UNHRC (seconded)
Canadian PM Stephen Harper at the Knesset (seconded)

Christy, a Palestinian Christian to Dr. Saeb Erekat

Ron Prosor to the General Assembly (seconded)

Bibi at the UNGA (seconded)
Ben Shapiro at UCLA (seconded)
Richard Kemp on he Gaza war (seconded)
Brigitte Gabriel at the UN

BEST "OWN GOAL" (Anti-Zionists acting so stupid they disgust even disinterested parties or backfire spectacularly)

Max Blumenthal and David Sheen Toiletgate (seconded)

George Galloway (seconded)

"Tkof Taaseh Biguim"(seconded)

Brighton BDS warning people about 'Zionist donations' to food banks
Saima Jamal
Ala'a Hamdan “I will soak a koffiah with your blood and save it to show to your siblings "
UCLA student meltdown after BDS defeat (seconded)
Kat-Yang Stevens (seconded)

BEST ARTICLE

An Insider's Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth, Matti Friedman (seconded)
What the Media Gets Wrong About Israel (Matti Friedman)

The Media Intifada: Bad Math, Ugly Truths About New York Times In Israel-Hamas War, Richard Behar (seconded)

Why the Arab World Is Lost in an Emotional Nakba, and How We Keep It There, Richard Landes (seconded)

Assessing the UN OCHA's "Gaza Crisis 2014" Report, Judge Dan (seconded)

To SJP, A Letter from an Angry Back Woman, Chloe Valdary

Time Running Out to let Aging Abbas Slaughter Us (PreOccupied Territory)

How Hamas Destroys Its People, as Seen Through the Eyes of IDF Soldiers, Yardena Schwartz (seconded)

Everything You Need to Know about International Law and the Gaza War, David Daoud

A Letter to the Jewish Nation: Why an Indian Stands With Israel , Vijeta Uniyal (seconded)
Native Jewish Bond Thicker Than Water, Ryan Bellerose
Why I Decided to Start Wearing a Kippah, Ryan Bellerose (seconded)
Israel: The World's First Modern Indigenous State, Ryan Bellerose (seconded)
Jews and Race: The "Skin Color" argument in anti-Israel discourse (Binyamin arazi)

BEST GRASSROOTS PRO-ISRAEL ORGANIZATION (Previous winner: Sussex Friends for Israel)

The Amcha Initiative (seconded)

Calgary United with Israel (seconded)
Cultural and Historical Association for Israel (Portland, OR)
Shurat HaDin (seconded)
Canadian Institute for Jewish Research:
Canada-Israel Friendship Association:
Irish4Israel
ReThink 2014
Im Tirtzu

MOST COURAGEOUS NON-JEW

Bassam Eid (seconded)

Mohammed Zoabi (seconded)

Orim Shimshon (seconded)

Anett Haskia

Father Nadaf (seconded)
Aboud Dandachi
Tarek Fatah (seconded)
Raheel Raza (Honour Diaries) (seconded)

BEST HUMOR SITE

PreOccupied Territory (seconded)

Dry Bones (seconded)
Tikun Olam (seconded)
Benji Lovitt

BEST BOOK

Industry of Lies by Ben-Dror Yemini (Hebrew)

Catch the Jew by Tuvia Tenenbom (Hebrew)

Making David Into Goliath: How the World Turned Against Israel , Joshua Muravchik (seconded)

Like Dreamers, Yossi Klein Halevi (seconded)

Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel's Soul, Daniel Gordis (seconded)

Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, Barry Rubin, Wolfgang G. Schwanitz

The Settler, Orit Arfa
The Doctor,The Eye Doctor and Me, Aboud Dandachi,
Tarek Fatah, The Jew is Not my Enemy
The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel, Nelson et. al.