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Aaron Sorkin’s anachronism
Writer of The Social Network imposed a victimized narrative on Mark Zuckerberg, who’s anything but
What forestry teaches us about ethnic cleansing
Our ancestors got away with destroying old growth forests. South Americans today are held to a higher standard
Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine
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On the sidewalk in Hamburg– ‘Hier wohnte’
Memorials to victims of the Holocaust are embedded in Hamburg street in front of house where the couple lived
Posted in American Jewish Community, Beyondoweiss
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‘Death of a Salesman’ came out of an intermarriage
‘I had arrived at the psychological role of mediator between the Jews and America, and among Americans themselves’ –Arthur Miller on his intermarriage in 1940
Shmully and guilt
Sabbath dinner at the Eliezer Society at Yale turns into a heated discussion of Israel/Palestine
Posted in American Jewish Community, Beyondoweiss, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine
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Auden wrote ‘by far’ the best book in 1945, but was denied the Pulitzer for alleged Communism and aloofness from WW II
Frankly political considerations guided the Pulitzer Prize award for poetry in 1945, at the end of the war
Posted in Beyondoweiss
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Episcopalian twit (a review of JFK’s former mistress’s memoir)
We read memoirs in order to judge the people who wrote them
Posted in Beyondoweiss, US Politics
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My spirit is American (a religious manifesto)
The Israel lobby colonized American Jewish spiritual identity, and consecrated it to nationalist myths half a world away, when our inspirations are American
Happy New Year
Here’s a mental health break going into 2012. Thanks again everyone for a great year and we’ll see you soon.
Posted in Beyondoweiss
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The gift of the Jews
America’s philosemitism grew out of the gifts that Jewish culture brought to modern society.
Is portrait of Mark Zuckerberg in ‘The Social Network’ anti-Semitic?
We’ve had a Netflicks DVD of The Social Network hanging around the house for months. My wife watched it ages ago, by herself, but because I’m so dependent, I’ve been pressing her to watch it again, with me. Last night … Continue reading
Israel isn’t good for the Jews anymore
Israel isn’t good for the Jews anymore. That’s the news from New York. It happened in the last week, or the last two years. A feeling has taken root deep in the American Jewish community that Israel is hurting us, … Continue reading
Posted in American Jewish Community, Beyondoweiss, Gaza, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, US Policy in the Middle East
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Mondo… Beyondo
Mondoweiss began as personal blog for Philip Weiss 6 years ago. Now the site is professional, that stuff will be filed under Beyondo
Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine
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The progressive vanity of the colonial, per Doris Lessing
I struggle to understand the righteousness of Israelis when it comes to international criticism, and so I’ve typed up a fascinating passage about the colonial mindset from Doris Lessing’s novel A Proper Marriage, which is set in Southern Rhodesia, now … Continue reading
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Glenn Beck, the American Right and the myth of ‘the International Jew’
Glenn Beck will likely soon regale us all with the valuable lessons he learned in Israel. Perhaps the rally turnout was lower than expected, but you can bet that any book he writes about it will become a bestseller in … Continue reading
The end of civilization: no ‘dignity’ in remaining silent at BBC Proms
In a Guardian review of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) at the BBC Proms, and referring to the boycott protests that disrupted their concert in London’s Royal Albert Hall on Thursday, classical music critic Erica Jeal praises IPO conductor, Zubin Mehta, … Continue reading
Posted in BDS, Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine
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Colonel Qaddafi’s Tech Support
Reporting from Tripoli, The Wall Street Journal’s Paul Sonne and Margaret Coker reveal the depths of collusion between Colonel Qaddafi’s spooks and their foreign tech support: The recently abandoned room is lined with posters and English-language training manuals stamped with … Continue reading
Israel will hear your confession now
‘From stabbing IDF soldiers to having them as teammates, Palestinian uses football for peace’ has to be the most disingenuous headline for an article on the colonizer-colonized relationship, even by the standards of JTA, The Global News Service of the Jewish … Continue reading
Posted in BDS, Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine
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The Refugees of Zone A
From Wikipedia, 2022: “The Refugees of Zone A” refers to a group of about 500,000 refugees who left their homes in New York City during the legendary hurricane of 2011. Their homes were occupied by people fleeing Virginia and North … Continue reading
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The ‘untamed wildernesses’ of Israeli and American colonialism
A June editorial in +972 Magazine examined the (non-)utility of the argument “Who started it in 1948?” One thing that struck me about the points of the argument regarding the disposition of land in the British Mandate of Palestine was … Continue reading
Pamela Geller slanders the Utoya victims (elitist anti-Semites, Hitler youth, oh and race-mixers)
Pamela Geller, founder of Atlas Shrugs, delayed a full response to the shootings in Norway (by her own admission). Her ideological associates, in the meantime, had been issuing statements condemning the violence – as well as the victims’ politics. And … Continue reading
I dreamed of Jerusalem
It starts with a smile. A faint one apparently. But that doesn’t matter. I know as long as I’m smiling, nobody can wake me up. I shall keep the smile on my face. And I shall go on dreaming. I … Continue reading
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‘Intelligence’ and Islamophobia – PowerPointed and neoconned
A barely legible 2009 FBI PowerPoint on “Islam” has come down the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) line at a very unfortunate time following the right-wing terrorist attacks in Norway. But it is very much part of that tragedy. The … Continue reading
‘Commentary’ smear of Occupy Wall St. doesn’t bother to get basic facts right
If you’re intent on derailing the Occupy Wall Street protests by tarring demonstrators as anti-Semites, you might bother to get basic facts right. But Alana Goodman at the neoconservative Commentary magazine doesn’t even do that in her zeal to link … Continue reading →