Alan Dershowitz has a nice piece in The Boston Globe telling the truth about Armenian genocide in 1915 (I said WWI in an earlier post; my bad). It would have been better if he had lit into the ADL for…
Activist Hilda Silverman has a wonderful letter in the Boston Globe, attacking the Anti-Defamation League for refusing to acknowledge the Armenian genocide by the Turks in the First World War. Silverman points out that the ADL position springs from support…
When I was in Syria last year I tried to have a conversation in a restaurant with an Arab friend, a woman, about women’s rights in the Arab world and she held up her hand. “Let’s have this discussion back…
When Cal Ripken Jr. was inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame a few weeks back, he thanked his teammate Eddie Murray ahead of a lot of others, and Murray, seated on the Cooperstown stage because he entered the Hall…
Last night on NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams opened a report on Chinese toys by saying it was a story a lot of “families with children” have been watching. I think Williams is being demographically-correct and offering a wider definition…
According to this Amazon list, The Israel Lobby by Walt and Mearsheimer was #18 in sales for new and forthcoming books this a.m. Just a bounce from yesterday’s piece in the Times, or are things changing? Someone better get these…
My network is buzzing about Walt and Mearsheimer’s book. I can’t tell you how excited folks are. They have the feeling that it’s High Noon at last for the Israel lobby–that the issue will be mainstreamed at last. I’m getting…
Hurray for The New York Times. Today it covered Walt and Mearsheimer’s forthcoming book fairly (a piece penned by the wonderful Patricia Cohen, who broke the AJC anti-Zionism fatwa story last winter). The story is demoralizing. We learn that many…
Here’s a link to Glenn Greenwald’s brilliant defenestration of O’Hanlon and Pollack for their comments on Iraq. Read it. I have one addendum. Greenwald states the following about Pollack’s sock, the Saban Center: The above-the-political-fray Pollack is employed by the…