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. This is not the vote! I have pre-populated nominees from those who had been seconded last year and some others, but you are encouraged to 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. Please include links!
Please don't second more than one in one category.
Self-nominations are allowed.
Additional category suggestions are welcome, but unlikely. It is already a crowded field.
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 sometime in 2017, maybe even in a real-life ceremony like last year's. (But it might have to be in the New York area this time. If you have a good venue and want to host, please let me know!)
Yishai Fleisher
Israel Shield
Shim Rational
Petra Marquardt-B
Hillel Fuld
Father Gabriel Naddaf
Jonathan Greenberg
Frackingzionist
YMikarov
Michael Dickson
Chloe Valdary (seconded)
Hananya Naftali (seconded)
Elliott Hamilton
Rudy Rochman
Aedan O'Connor (seconded)
Mideast Beast (seconded)
Daily Freier (seconded)
Dry Bones Blog (seconded)
"Instead of
Apologizing” (Mosaic translation of 1911 Jabotinsky article) (seconded)
Israel
Conducted No Ethnic Cleansing in 1948 (Benny Morris) (seconded)
Palestinians:
Western Media's Ignorance and Bias (Khaled Abu Toameh)
Yes, Many Journalists Choose Sides in a Conflict—and Often
for the Worst Reasons (Zenobia
Ravji)
Where Does All That Aid for Palestinians Go? (Tzipi Hotovely) (seconded)
Strategic self-respect (Vic Rosenthal)
Alan Sdersjowiyz: Visit to the Old and New Hells of Europe Provides a Reminder of Israel's Importance
Evelyn Gordon: The Truth About Settlement Growth
Zionism: an Indigenous Movement (Einat Wilf) (seconded)
Why Are There Still Palestinian Refugees? by Dumisani Washington (seconded)
Born to Hate Jews by Kasim Hafeez
Egyptian-German Scholar Hamed Abdel-Samad: Our Hatred of Jews Has Poisoned Us
NO2BDS: Almost a million people lost everything when Israel declared independence
Israeli Druze diplomat answer to the Syrian representative in the UN (seconded)
BEST PRO-ISRAEL ACTIVIST ORGANIZATION (Previous winner: My Truth)
Jeremy Gimpel, Yom Haatzmaut, Canada (seconded)
International Law Issues in the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict, Eugene Kontorovich (seconded)
Ashton Kutcher
Jon Voight (seconded)
Jenna Jameson
Israeli flag burned outside DNC
Senator Dianne Feinstein supporting abstention of UNSCR 2334 (seconded)
Barack Obama crafting UNSCR 2334 (seconded)
US collusion with PA revealed by Egypt
Bernie Sanders (seconded)