Author Archives: Jerry Slater

About Jerry Slater

Jerome Slater is a professor (emeritus) of political science and now a University Research Scholar at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has taught and written about U.S. foreign policy and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for nearly 50 years, both for professional journals (such as International Security, Security Studies, and Political Science Quarterly) and for many general periodicals. He writes foreign policy columns for the Sunday Viewpoints section of the Buffalo News. And his website it www.jeromeslater.com.

Slater: As a Zionist, I came to believe in tough love for Israel, and then–

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Jerry Slater

The other day Jerome Slater participated with Adam Horowitz, Steve Walt, and MJ Rosenberg in a discussion at the Palestine Center hereabout blogging. Slater, a longtime professor of history and in the last year a blogger, subsequently published his opening … Continue reading →

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Slater: Goldberg’s argument is slippery

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Jerry Slater

Scholar Jerry Slater has another great post at his site, an analysis of Jeffrey Goldberg’s piece in the Atlantic on the likelihood of an Israeli attack on Iran that disputes Joe Klein’s claim that Goldberg was merely reporting attitudes in … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine | 22 Comments

Even ‘Haaretz’ has moral blindness re Gaza

Posted on August 15, 2010 by Jerry Slater

This morning’s Haaretz has an only too revealing editorial. The editors are “troubled” by statements by the IDF’s chief of staff, Gabi Ashkenazi, concerning the lessons of the Israeli attack on the ship carrying goods to Gaza in defiance of … Continue reading →

Posted in Gaza, Israel/Palestine | 24 Comments

More on Efraim Karsh’s ‘travesties’

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Jerry Slater

More criticism of that Efraim Karsh piece of Zionist propaganda that appeared on the Times Op-Ed page saying that the Palestinians have been abandoned by the Arab world. Angry Arab says his poll #s were from a website’s click-poll. And … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine | 21 Comments

Slater responds to the ‘Obamaphilia’ charge

Posted on July 11, 2010 by Jerry Slater

I would like to respond to the more substantive and therefore interesting criticisms of my recent blog, “Obama’s Dilemma.” I meant the term to apply not merely to Obama’s Israeli policies, but more broadly to his overall political dilemma. Several … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel/Palestine, US Politics | 19 Comments

Obama’s kicking can down the road because he can’t save Israel even if he tried

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Jerry Slater

Jerome Slater, at his blog, writes on "Obama’s Dilemma" and offers a bleak analysis of Obama’s choices: However, even if Obama privately shared the views of, say, J Street and Americans for Peace Now—and for that matter, of those critics … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Politics | 63 Comments

‘We struck the civilian population consciously’ (Gaza’s historical pedigree)

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Jerry Slater

Commenters have pointed out that the best defense of the Goldstone Report has been published by a friend of this site, Jerome Slater, at his new blog (Jerome Slater: On the U.S. and Israel): Part I, and Part II. In … Continue reading →

Posted in Gaza, US Politics | 121 Comments

Jerry Slater on Rivka Carmi

Posted on August 30, 2009 by Jerry Slater

Dear Dr. Carmi:    As a retired university professor here in the U.S., I was quite interested in your letter to the BGU faculty.  I understand that the University of Tehran may be looking for a new president, so should … Continue reading →

Posted in BDS, Israel/Palestine | 5 Comments

Slater defends Walt and Mearsheimer from Rothkopf’s ‘Brooks Brothers’ attack

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Jerry Slater

What I have urged more than anything else in the Israel lobby discussion is: discussion! Because only with open discussion can the true extent of the Israel lobby be understood. Chas Freeman’s ouster has had a huge effect, of course….
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Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 23 Comments

Groundhog day at the ‘Times’

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Jerry Slater

Jerome Slater, scholar and press critic, writes: The New York Times lives in a kind of permanent Groundhog Day. Whenever it appears to be actually learning something about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, say in its somewhat critical reporting on the recent…
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Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 15 Comments

Barack, don’t be like Ike

Posted on January 14, 2009 by Jerry Slater

Jerry Slater writes: According to the NYT, Obama has asked V. Gene Robinson, a gay Episcopal bishop, to deliver the invocation at one of the inaugural events. Some see this as Obama’s way of “compensating” for having named Rev. Rick…
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Posted in Israel/Palestine, US Politics | 2 Comments

Slater’s thought experiment

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Jerry Slater

Jerry Slater has a unique way of looking at the terrible situation in Israel/Palestine, inspired by Jonathan Swift: What if the Situation Were Reversed? He writes: There has been growing outrage at Israel’s attack on Gaza. It is hard to…
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Posted in Gaza, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East | 46 Comments

Slater: NYT ‘epiphany’

Posted on January 8, 2009 by Jerry Slater

Jerome Slater writes of today’s Times: It’s almost beginning to look like the Times has experienced an ephiphany. Not only is there increasingly skeptical coverage from its news reporters, including some who until now have been largely uncritical of Israel,…
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Posted in Beyondoweiss, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East | 37 Comments

Note on this blog’s progress in the blogosphere

Posted on January 7, 2009 by Jerry Slater

The new model of publishing is the stable of bloggers. That’s the way the world is moving. Foreign Policy, firedoglake, antiwar.com, and the Atlantic have all chosen this model, replacing the professional guild/captive-advertising model of the late great newspaper. The…
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Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East | 8 Comments

Obama is getting ‘domestic political cover’ to do something at last

Posted on December 29, 2008 by Jerry Slater

American public opinion is changing. Today at a golf course in Hawaii, five people tried to get Gaza material to Obama, and the Secret Service stopped them. The activists’ statement: This gift of films is offered in hope that ……
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Seliger attacks Slater

Posted on December 18, 2008 by Jerry Slater

Lately I blogged about Jerry Slater’s important piece on Tom Friedman in Tikkun. Well now Ralph Seliger is going after it. Why Slater resuscitates the issue of who was more at fault in the breakdown of the peace process in…
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Posted in Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East | 6 Comments

‘Times’ Whitewashes Israeli Role in Sabra and Shatilla Massacres

Posted on December 14, 2008 by Jerry Slater

Jerry Slater, author of an important analysis of New York Times vs. Haaretz in coverage of Israel/Palestine, writes: Another in the chronicle of New York Times whitewashes of Israel. In today’s Times, Ethan Bronner reviews Waltz With Bashir, an Israeli…
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Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine | 15 Comments

Jerome Slater: Tom Friedman Glibly Promotes ‘Mythology’ that Israel Is Fair, Palestinians Violent

Posted on November 26, 2008 by Jerry Slater

For a year I’ve thought that the best analysis of the peace process is Henry Siegman’s fabulous piece in LRB last year saying it has been a “scam” aimed at covering Israel’s accession of more territory. Now here is a…
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Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 28 Comments

Impose a 2-State Solution, or You Get 1?

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Jerry Slater

Jerome Slater writes: John Mearsheimer is absolutely right that there is not a chance for a “one state solution.” Despite the rhetoric, the Israelis, by nearly 100%, will never accept it; the Palestinians also won’t accept it; and even if…
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Posted in Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East | 13 Comments

Most of McCain’s Jewish Braintrust Has Ties to JINSA, of Iraq War Fame

Posted on September 5, 2008 by Jerry Slater

The Forward has an irresponsible piece of journalism about McCain’s Jewish supporters. I use that harsh term because while the reporting is interesting and contains some new facts, there is no effort to talk about the goals of McCain’s supporters…
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Posted in Israel/Palestine, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 2 Comments

Slater: Israel Chose Land, Not Peace

Posted on July 24, 2008 by Jerry Slater

Today’s Times has an Obama-needs-to-give-Israel-tough-love-to-get-a-two-state solution column by Nicholas Kristof. New historian Jerome Slater sent me his take on the column. I’m going to follow that with my take. Slater: At first glance, Nicholas Kristof’s column in today’s New York…
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Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East | 27 Comments