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Thursday, January 07, 2016

2016 Hasby Award Nominations (continuously updated)


(UPDATE: Some great new entries are coming, especially in the social media, grassroots advocate and young defenders category. I hope you check out all the nominees.

 ( I will open up some categories to voting by you, so stay tuned!)

It is that time of year again where I ask you for nominations for the annual Hasby Awards,  the best examples of pro-Israel advocacy for the year.

Below you will find the categories of awards for this year. You can add your own nominees or you can second the ones that are listed in the comments. I have pre-populated nominees from those who had been seconded last year that still apply, but you can nominate additional ones. There is no need to second nominees that have already been seconded. (No nominations or seconds from Twitter or email, they must be placed in the comments.)

As in previous years, no one gets awarded twice for the same category so I list the previous winners.

Some winners are decided by me and others will be based on surveys.. The awards will be given out in January or perhaps February.  (If any organization wants to host an actual awards ceremony, let me know!)


BEST PRO-ISRAEL TWEETER (Previous winners: Avi Mayer, No Camels, Margie in Tel Aviv)

Arsen Ostrovsky (seconded)
UK Media Watch  (seconded)
William Daroff (seconded)
Hen Mazzig (seconded)
Anarcho-Zionist (seconded
Brian of London (seconded)
NotAntiSemitic (seconded)
Tal Ofer (seconded)
Israellycool (seconded)
Omri Ceren (seconded)
Eugene Kontorovich (seconded)
Andreas Fagerbakke (seconded)
Gidon Shaviv (seconded)
Dumisani Washington (seconded)
Yishai Fleisher (seconded)
Israel Shield (seconded)
Shim Rational (seconded)
Petra Marquardt-B (seconded)
Hillel Fuld (seconded)
Father Gabriel Naddaf (seconded)

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

Douglas Murray (seconded)
Gatestone Institute (seconded)
Charles Krauthammer (seconded)
Walter Russell Mead (seconded)
Legal Insurrection (seconded)
Daniel Greenfield (seconded)
Colonel Richard Kemp  (seconded)
Brendan O'Neill (seconded)
Mike Lumish
Liberty Unyielding
Jay Nordlinger (seconded)
Sean Hannity (seconded)
Aboud Dandachi


BEST YOUNG DEFENDER OF ISRAEL (Previous winner: Muhammad Zoabi)
Ryan Bellerose  (seconded)
Chloe Valdary (seconded)
Daniel Mael (seconded)
Sarah Bernamoff  (seconded)
Kaseem Hafiz (seconded)
Leora Noor Eisenberg (seconded, thirded, twentied...)
Alexandra Markus (Lex) (seconded)
Binyamin Arazi
Emanuel Miller (seconded)
Shay Alfasi (seconded)
Tomer Kornfeld (seconded)

 WINNERS: Alexandra Markus (Hasby) and Leora Eisenberg (Popular vote)




 BEST PRO-ISRAEL COMMENTATOR EXCLUSIVE TO MIDDLE EAST/ISRAEL (Previous winners: Barry Rubin, Sarah Honig, Caroline Glick)
Martin Kramer (seconded)
Daniel Gordis (seconded)
Evelyn Gordon (seconded)
Khaled Abu Toameh  (seconded)
Mudar Zahran  (seconded)
Yishai Fleisher (seconded)
Fred Maroun (seconded)
Richard Ferrer
Judith Bergman

BEST SATIRE/HUMOR
PreOccupied Territory (seconded)
Mideast Beast (seconded)
Daily Freier (seconded)
This Is Palestine (seconded) (moved from Best Tweeter)
Judge Dan (seconded)
Benji Lovitt
AllMensch




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

Algemeiner (seconded)  
Tablet  (seconded)
JPost  (seconded)

BEST MAINSTREAM MEDIA WATCHDOG (Previous winners: Honest Reporting, CAMERA, BBC Watch)

UK Media Watch   (seconded)

BEST WATCHDOG - ARABIC MEDIA AND NGOs (Previous winners: Palestinian Media Watch, MEMRI)

NGO Monitor (seconded)
UN Watch (seconded)
JihadWatch (seconded)

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

Israel Matzav (seconded)
Jews Down Under (seconded)
IsraelSeen (seconded)
Thomas Wictor  (seconded)
IsraelStreet (seconded)
Abu Yehuda (seconded)
The Mike Report (seconded)
Israel Thrives  (seconded)
ZionTruth (seconded)
Edgar Davidson (seconded)
Israel Shield (seconded)

 BEST SOCIAL MEDIA ADVOCATE FOR ISRAEL (NON-BLOG)
The Muqata (seconded)
Miriam Goodman (seconded)
Roger Froikin
Bat-Zion Susskind-Sacks
Michal Dar-El
Mottle Wolfe (seconded)
Israelis Under Attack Everywhere
Annika Hernroth-Rothstein




BEST ARTICLE 
A Letter To Palestinian Supporters Tempted To Co-Opt Native American Struggles, Ryan Bellerose (seconded)
It’s Not An Argument, Ryan Bellerose (seconded)
The Palestinian Theft of Jewish Identity, Binyamin Arazi (seconded)
The Rage Less Traveled,  Kay Wilson (seconded)
Calling BS on BDS - Apartheid Law vs. Israeli Law, Judean People's Front (seconded)
Why I Am Pro-Palestinian (Ryan Bellerose) (seconded)
The Biggest Mistakes Pro-Israel Advocates Make, series (Lex) (seconded)
Is Israel a democracy? (Vic Rosenthal) (seconded)
History Matters (Ryan Bellerose) (seconded)

 WINNERS:
Kay Wilson (Hasby) AND Ryan Bellerose (Popular Vote)



BEST BOOK
Catch the Jew, Tuvia Tenenbom (seconded)
BEST PRO-ISRAEL VIDEO (VOTING OPENING 1/17)
A special kind of hate (Pat Condell) (seconded)
Top Ten Reasons Why Every Liberal Should Support Israel (seconded)
Beyond Deception Strategy - Pierre Rehov (seconded)
War Crimes in Gaza - Pierre Rehov (seconded)
Regavim (seconded)
StandWithUs (seconded)
Canary Mission (seconded)
My Truth (seconded)
Im Tirtzu (seconded)
Irish4Israel (seconded)


BEST "OWN GOAL" (Anti-Zionists acting so stupid they disgust even disinterested parties or backfire spectacularly) (Previous winner: Max Blumenthal/David Sheen)
Roger Waters, Lifetime Achievement (seconded)
Malaysian Government for refusing visas to Israeli windsurfers
A Map Of Palestine From 1759! (Deebo - Israellycool) 

BEST CELEBRITY TWEETER FOR ISRAEL (The David Draiman Award)
Roseanne Barr (seconded)
Josh Malina
Jenna Jameson (seconded)
Mayim Bialik (seconded)
Jon Voight (seconded)



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