Author Archives: Philip Weiss

Supporters of Israel are reduced to smashmouth politics in denouncing Alice Walker for her criticisms of Israel

Shmuley Boteach makes more intolerant statements about Palestinians. And this is the man Samantha Power is counting on as her ambassador to the Jewish community? The lobby at work

Ad of Obama meeting Ethiopian born Miss Israel is propaganda blow in Israel lobby’s effort to defeat charge that Israel is racist

Former British foreign secretary Jack Straw says Israel is “stealing” Palestinian land and expresses outrage over Israeli hypocrisy on its nuclear program

US officials will talk to the Taliban but continue to redline Hamas. Total hypocrisy, indicating the power of the Israel lobby

It is vital that Edward Snowden continue to speak in months and years to come. We need his leadership and vision

“The bigshots say we should pay no mind to what the people in the country think.” Chris Matthews takes on Bill Clinton and elite leaders who seek Syrian intervention in defiance of popular will

More heat on Theodor Meron, the Holocaust-surviving judge at the Hague who has freed war criminals, from the Danish newspaper Information

“The only solution to the Palestinian problem lies down the revolutionary road both in the Arab world and amongst the Israeli masses,” Italo Calvino, Italian journalist and novelist, wrote in 1968

“U.S. policy is for there to be consequences for the Palestinians if they do things that are unhelpful to the resumption of the peace process, but it is not the U.S. policy to have consequences for the Israelis when they do similar things?” Matt Lee at State Dep’t briefing

Robert Kraft accuses Vladimir Putin of stealing his Super Bowl championship ring, 8 years later. Is he trying to pressure the Russians over Syria?

Tom Friedman says that George H.W. Bush’s opposition to the Israel lobby cost him the ’92 election, and his son got the message

Hillary Clinton’s potential powerful supporters, Len Blavatnik, Gary Cohn, Richard Perry, Jack Lew, are also big supporters of Israel. The media won’t open the door on this

Roland Dumas, a former French foreign minister in socialist administration, is reported to say that Israel wants to destroy Syria because of Syria’s “anti-Israel” talk

The US is going down the list of Islamic countries, seeking regime change after regime change, says Chris Matthews. “Next stop, Iran.”

A former Israeli diplomat is now the American president of a UN tribunal on the former Yugoslavia, and he’s accused of pressuring other judges to acquit Serbian and Croat accused war criminals, in deference to American and Israeli leaders.

Rush Holt found the people of Gaza friendly when he visited in 2010, saw folks who just wanted to rebuild, and questioned Israel’s policy of “total devastation.” Now he’s running for Senate. Will he throw Palestine under the bus?

Israel lobby leader’s reactionary piece in the WSJ stating that Israel has repeatedly tried to grant Palestinians sovereignty is so filled with lies it shows the power of the analogy of the struggle to Jim Crow battle for equal rights

Anthony Weiner has denied that there is an occupation of the West Bank. If he had denied apartheid in South Africa in the day, he would have been hounded out of a mayor’s race. Why are New Yorkers giving him a break?

Israel is too polarizing a subject in Jewish circles these days. Terry Gross of Fresh Air has a long conversation with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg in which Jewishness comes up often and tediously, but there is not a political word exchanged

Rand Paul and Edward Snowden, from a libertarian standpoint, have done more to break open the national security debate in recent months than the left. But the left has done great work too; and the two sides must overcome their cultural differences in order to forge a working alliance for the important battles ahead

Samantha Power will have to get into bed with the Israel lobby group UN Watch if she becomes ambassador. And UN Watch stands for the rejection of Palestinian human rights.

Matt Miller of Washington Post trashes Edward Snowden and suggests that rounding up religious minorities might be necessary after a terrorist attack

Charles Small, former director of Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism, says Yale closed down the study because of its “anti-Semitism”

Leon Wieseltier is described by Samantha Power as a moral leader, but he’s been a weenie when it comes to his avowed opposition to Israeli settlements