Here’s an august professor of Jewish civilization, Jacques Berlinerblau, who was on tv moderating Bob Shrum and David Frum last week and today is about to conduct a forum on “the Jewish vote,” who has noticed that Jews are getting…
The question is whether the Khalidi flap will lead to a larger discussion of Palestinian human rights. I think it will, inevitably. But for the meantime we get this kind of judicious tweezerish on the one hand beancounterish stuff from…
Josh Micah Marshall has a great post on Khalidi. Holding nothing back, not mincing words. Calling it McCarthyism and racism. Dude you make me finally proud to be an American. This is the angry tone I’ve been waiting for. Marshall…
Ron Kampeas has a good piece on JTA “clear”-ing Rashid Khalidi of the charge that he was a PLO spokesman. Kampeas points out that the PLO has been the internationally-accepted representative of the Palestinians since 1988, and that Khalidi wasn’t…
Nice defense of Rashid Khalidi by Scott Horton in Harper’s: Khalidi is also a Palestinian American. There is no doubt in my mind that it is solely that last fact that informs McCarthy’s ignorant and malicious rants. And Joe Klein…
McCain doesn’t sell. Everyone’s selling Obama. If you give $250 to the Republican Jewish Coalition, they will send you this poster, which they accurately call a “collector’s item,” 27-by-40. Obama sure is iconic, check out this search. P.S. Question: Is…
“I hope that in the next century we will come to terms with our abysmal ignorance of the Muslim world. Muslims aren’t a bunch of wackos and nuts. They are decent, brilliant, talented people with a great civilization and traditions…
I asked a smart friend what he thought noteworthy about the Khalidi controversy: “I suppose the vilification of Muslims, Arabs and Palestinians (‘neo-Nazis’?) that not one American public figure but Powell has said a word about.” Oh my. Brings tears…
This is from Fox News’s coverage of the Khalidi controversy. Or should I say Chalidi kontroversy. Fox can’t spell kow-towing. The story says Palin gave a speech where she said the LA Times could win the Pulitzer Prize in the…