Tag Archives: Andrew Sullivan

Would I have been defended against smears if I was Palestinian?

Armin Rosen’s attack on Mondoweiss has garnered two responses in The Atlantic pushing back hard on Rosen’s smear. But would high-profile journalists push back the same if the target of the “anti-Semitism” smear was someone who was not Jewish or white?

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Likud’s perfect candidate: Newt Gingrich (UPDATED)

Newt Gingrich and the Israeli prime minister are linked together by ideology and cash.

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Jim-Crow Journalism: Were there really no Palestinian analysts available for latest NYT article?

Earlier today I posted Noam Chomsky’s insight that American intellectual culture has complete contempt for Arab public opinion. Well, the New York Times’s Mark Landler interviewed Dan Kurtzer, Yigal Palmor, Dan Levy, David Makovsky about their opinions on the Obama … Continue reading

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Sullivan combats anti-Semitic smear by Goldberg

Is Sullivan the best? Yes. He is doing the hard labor of taking on the Israel lobby forcefully in the mainstream media, with unrivaled clarity and eloquence. Here he bats down a piece of thuggery from Jeffrey Goldberg, that Sullivan … Continue reading

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Cantor pledges Republicans will stand with Israel against Obama (btw, Cantor is Jewish, does that matter?)

There is a justifiable uproar over the fact that Eric Cantor, the Republican whip, has pledged his party’s greater allegiance to Netanyahu than Obama [quotes below]. Andrew Sullivan calls it a “scandal.” Jim Traub at Foreign Policy asks, “Did Bibi … Continue reading

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Is Sullivan’s witness on Israel/Palestine linked to his moral stance re his own church?

Yesterday I caught some of Andrew Sullivan’s appearance on Charlie Rose from the night before. He said he had stopped attending Catholic mass because the child abuse scandal sickened him, he said the church hierarchy was corrupted by it and … Continue reading

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