Max Boot at Commentary is going crazy over Joe Klein’s assertion that Jewish neocons played an important role in pushing the Iraq war to make Israel safe. Myself I have trouble reading a blog entry this long. Also the tone…
Here’s a good piece in the Nation on rightwing Zionist actions at the University of California at Irvine. The Zionist groups claim that pro-Israel students are being harassed on campus. After the [U.S. Office of Civil Rights] concluded that there…
More censorship in Chicago. This time of an exhibit at a Jewish museum that pictured many different maps of Israel/Palestine. The Tribune story bravely speaks of the money issue. No, we won’t get anywhere till we talk about this issue….
Jerome Slater, the scholar of press coverage of Israel in the Times and in Haaretz, had an incisive take on the Times coverage of breaches in the fragile truce between Hamas and Israel: “The Times may be a-changing, but not…
Connie Bruck’s profile of Sheldon Adelson in the New Yorker continues to resonate. Says Christopher Varley: “I have written about the pernicious influence of Israel ’s so-called friends in America on many occasions. They use their wealth and influence to…
Only Haaretz seems to be discussing the existential crisis Israel is in today in a frank manner. Here is Avrum Burg, a former speaker of the Knesset (and the son of a rightwing religious leader), saying that the time of…
My crowd is buzzing over Connie Bruck’s profile of Sheldon Adelson in The New Yorker. I have pressed for just such coverage of the U.S.’s third-richest man, and birthright-nut, for months. I notice that the Israel angle is right up…
Responding to my post of yesterday, my friend Nim Chimpsky, a primate, pointed out to me that Joe Klein was brave before about the make-Israel-safe logic in the minds of the Iraq war planners. Klein wrote this piece in February…
Iraq was a preemptive war. But that language has been discredited, so the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a station of the Israel lobby, has put out a paper all-but-calling for military strikes against Iran, which it describes as…