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Michelle Goldberg: ‘Everybody knows’ journalists sacrifice their careers by taking dissenting views on Israel/Palestine

by Philip Weiss22 March 2009

After last Monday’s 92d Street Y panel on a liberal Jewish lobby, Justin Elliott of TPM did this wonderful interview with one of the panelists, Michelle Goldberg. Goldberg is a lover of Israel who is agonized about what Avigdor Lieberman…

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The tribal angle in the Freeman drama

by Philip Weiss13 March 2009

Jack Ross takes exception to my framing the Chas Freeman drama as a story about Jews and WASPs contending for place in the establishment, and to me using Ned Lamont, who first beat Joe Lieberman then lost to him in…

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Pipes and Schumer, separated at birth

by Philip Weiss11 March 2009

Re Adam Horowitz’s post earlier today, Jack Ross writes: Daniel Pipes and Chuck Schumer were in the same class at Harvard, and no doubt because of said connection Schumer conspicuously stood up for Pipes when he was nominated to the…

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Memo to Jews

by Philip Weiss10 March 2009

We’re in IQ freefall. None of us can doubt that Jewish genius transformed the 20th century. Finance, science, psychiatry, media–do I really need to go through all that part? Now we are in IQ freefall, for two reasons related to…

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Blankfort and Ross on Walzer

by Philip Weiss8 March 2009

Jeffrey Blankfort and Jack Ross have responded to Michael Walzer’s piece in Dissent calling for the defeat of the colonization movement in the West Bank in order to save the two-state solution. Blankfort: I have a different take on Walzer….

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Jack Ross on the relationship of Chabad to Zionism

by Philip Weiss4 March 2009

Jack Ross on Chabad, referring to the next post down: I’m not sure whether or not its fair to hold them up as representing anyone but themselves. On the one hand they do more or less represent a narrow a…

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‘I have family that lives in Israel’– Stand up if this statement is true

by Philip Weiss2 March 2009

I see that Cynthia Greenberg of Brooklyn posted the following fine statement as a comment on the post about the Brooklyn congregation Kolot Chayeinu’s encounter meeting following the Gaza attack. Seems to me it should be a post: As a…

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Jack Ross on Marty Peretz

by Philip Weiss25 February 2009

Jack Ross responds to the post above about Marty Peretz: I wonder if Chas Freeman represents the horrible shattering of Marty’s illusions that he or the cadre he trained could make things better on the inside, and that he can’t…

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Glorify the nation-race…

by Philip Weiss16 February 2009

Jack Ross, who is writing a book about anti-Zionist rabbis, writes re the post on Rabbi Eric Yoffie’s religious nationalism: While I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment you express, I feel that once again you miss an important point. That…

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Jack Ross’s sour note on Lincoln Bicentennial

by Philip Weiss15 February 2009

Jack Ross writes: In this past decade, my politics evolved from committed Green, which had so much invested in the narrative of the founding of the Republican Party on the slavery question, to jaded classical liberal, with at least a…

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Is Livni DeKlerk?

by Philip Weiss10 February 2009

Jack Ross: It looks like we’re going to have the best that could have been hoped for, a unity government of the four large parties led by Livni. Last night I was resigned to such led by Netanyahu; either way…

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Yes, what about the Indians?

by Philip Weiss8 February 2009

Jack Ross writes: Leaving all moral and ethical considerations aside, what Herzl proposed in 1897, that all of the world’s then-20 million Jews settle in a historic Palestine then populated by 1 million Arabs, while practically absurd, was theoretically viable,…

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Alan Dershowitz and Lanny Davis are rabbis for secular Jewish society

by Philip Weiss1 February 2009

This morning C-Span rebroadcast a panel on religion organized by the neoconservative Hudson Institute a month ago. Paul Marshall, a Hudson fellow, explained that Ahmed Chalabi had regained status in Iraq– notwithstanding his collaborationist past with Perle and Feith– not…

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Would ‘Washington Post’ writer David Ignatius put his arm on President Obama during a debate?

by Philip Weiss31 January 2009

Yesterday Susie Kneedler took a swipe at David Ignatius of the Washington Post. Jack Ross defends him: He supported Iraq like the whole Washington establishment (publicly at least, it may have been a transparent facade like with Chris Matthews but…

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