Author Archives: Philip Weiss

Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop was steeped in the racism of its time. Stand With Us, the pro-Israel group, appropriates the title for Israel propaganda

Many of those who gave Obama his start in politics were Jewish. Last night at a fundraiser at the home of one of them, Obama called the gathering his old “cabal” — and he cited three members of J Street’s advisory council

In the charm offensive that is the only democracy in the Middle East, an ISraeli amusement park has a frank segregation policy, different days for Palestinians and Jews

All Palestinians want to do is kill you and your people, Sheldon Adelson tells the New York Times. Romney echoed these statements a year ago. Remember that Adelson played an outsized role in US politics last year and no one quizzed him about this sort of prejudice

The Israeli green car company Better Place was adored on NPR and by visionary Tom Friedman. Now it’s gone bellyup. How many of those media mavens will reflect on why they believed the hype?

Netanyahu allowed J Street delegation to meet with ministers, a reversal of earlier policy against the liberal Zionist organization. Both sides get something out of J Street serving as Netanyahu’s figleaf

Neo Zionists; the Rimon Club has a video up of young Americans saying they won’t be ethnically cleansed from Israel

Former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben Ami takes Israel’s problem back to a Jewish “myth” or “meta-narrative,” about the “eternal, unforgiving hostility of a Gentile world.”

Yair Lapid was the great hope of liberal Zionists. The former TV anchor surged in the January elections and said that Israel could not put off the Palestinian issue. Well now Lapid is Netanyahu’s Finance Minister and check it out … Continue reading →

In the last part of Isabel Kershner’s piece on the al-Dura report by Israel, I learned that the investigative body had never contacted the father of the killed boy. At that moment, I understood that the report is military propaganda. — Harold Hjalmarson

Ugly vicious, sickening, sadistic — Larry Derfner’s take on racist video from Israeli college students portraying Arabs as backward monsters

Jack Rosen of the American Jewish Congress was part of Barack Obama’s outreach to Jews on Israel. His whole agenda is Israel. Anthony Weiner is in his apartment in NY. The NY Times doesn’t tell you that.

There are 3000 Jahalin Bedouin refugees living in the E-1 lands east of Jerusalem that Netanyahu plans more Jewish settlements on. You can learn about them tonight at Hunter College, at 7 PM

The Guardian’s Harriet Sherwood interview Jamal al-Dura who challenges Israel to produce his son Muhammad, if he is indeed alive

A day after Jordan’s Foreign Minister told John Kerry that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the “lingering, core” issue, the Secretary of State chided Israelis for missing opportunity: “it’s not on the tip of everybody’s tongue. People in Israel aren’t waking up every day and wondering if tomorrow there’ll be peace, because there is a sense of security and a sense of accomplishment and a sense of prosperity.”

Bob Simon took on Israeli ambassador Michael Oren a year ago, causing CAMERA to accuse 60 Minutes of anti-Semitism. ’60 Minutes’ has put CAMERA on ignore

“High school’s tough enough without having to face prison time for refusing to serve an occupation you know is wrong” — when will story of Israeli refuseniks make ’60 Minutes’?

While Biden panders to a Jewish audience, Chelsea Clinton undertakes a “multifaith” initiative

First the Israeli government drank the Koolaid on a rightwing conspiracist theory of how young Muhammad al-Dura died in Gaza 13 years ago. Then the New York Times got in line….

Wolf Blitzer is a redneck, in exchange with Oklahoma victim who rebuffs his question, Did she pray to the lord, by saying she’s an atheist

There are a lot of racist comments about Palestinians in a Forward comment section following a great piece on the destruction of the Mughrabi quarter in 1967

How will Americans regard Bradley Manning 50 years from now? As a hero, says Nathan Fuller