Tag Archives: Jeffrey Goldberg

New ‘NYT’ bureau chief Jodi Rudoren faces outcry from Israel advocates over Twitter messages

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Alex Kane

The fast and furious reaction to Jodi Rudoren’s Twitter messages, and what it says about ardent advocates for Israel.

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Jewish establishment gives White House cover to criticize Israel–just not on Palestine

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Alex Kane

The most salient lesson from the ruckus Jeffrey Goldberg and other Jewish groups created over the ridiculous ads about American Jewry and Israelis was voiced on Twitter by Max Blumenthal: American Jews are shocked by ads urging Israelis to return … Continue reading →

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Warped politics: Robert Gates says Israel is ‘ungrateful,’ but Obama will still veto Palestine UN bid

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Alex Kane

Jeffrey Goldberg’s latest column in Bloomberg (which Paul Mutter covered here) shows exactly how the Israel lobby has warped the U.S. political system. The lobby has such a stranglehold on U.S. policy towards Israel that a Secretary of Defense’s distaste … Continue reading →

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The upshot of the Kushner muzzling

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Alex Kane

The decision by the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Board of Trustees to block famous playwright Tony Kushner’s honorary degree at John Jay College is rightly being met with outrage. But there’s also an important upshot to the controversy: … Continue reading →

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Neocon fantasy: Palestine has nothing to do with Arab uprisings

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Alex Kane

As mass uprisings in Arab states continue, the Israeli government and its neoconservative supporters in the U.S. have tried to convince the world that Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians has nothing to do with the revolts. While it would be … Continue reading →

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Israel and its American friends want to stop the Egyptian ‘earthquake’

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Alex Kane

The Israeli government and its many friends in the U.S. media are rushing to support the brutal Mubarak dictatorship as it copes with the most serious challenge to its rule. As I noted yesterday, Israel is worried about a reliable … Continue reading →

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Jeffrey Goldberg likens BDS movement to Nazi Germany policies

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Alex Kane

If you can’t beat ‘em, smear ‘em.  And throw in the word Nazi for good measure. As the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement continues full-steam ahead in its efforts to force Israel to comply with international law, pro-Israel hawks … Continue reading →

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Goldberg/Netanyahu: Because of Spanish Inquisition, and Holocaust, Israel gets to have a nuclear monopoly

Posted on December 11, 2010 by Scott McConnell

At the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies conference, Jeffrey Goldberg gave a plug for the worldview of Ben Zion Netanyahu, the 100 year old father of Israel’s prime minister who is reportedly much more a nationalist extremist than his … Continue reading →

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Jeffrey Goldberg doesn’t work for ‘The Forward’ any more– and that’s appropriate

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Scott McConnell

A foreign journalist asked me what was with the Atlantic Monthly and Jeffrey Goldberg: why did a magazine which was a classic voice of the Eastern seaboard elite have a full time blogger on staff whose writing was devoted almost … Continue reading →

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Walt: tribalist Goldberg is smearing us because ‘goyim’ aren’t allowed to criticize Israel

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Philip Weiss

Jeffrey Goldberg is very effective: he intimidates people. He is personable and funny and well-connected and vicious. The other day he called Walt and Mearsheimer neo-Lindberghian. A disgusting effort to make them out as anti-semites, when both these guys are … Continue reading →

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Sullivan combats anti-Semitic smear by Goldberg

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Philip Weiss

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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Is he a reliable narrator?

Posted on October 29, 2010 by Philip Weiss

A year ago, Jeffrey Goldberg approvingly quoted a reader who said that the Jewish settlement of Gilo is part of Jerusalem:

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Goldberg regrets his story linking Saddam to al-Qaeda but says ‘everybody’ got it wrong

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Philip Weiss

The Jewish Journal’s Danielle Berrin interviews the most powerful Jewish journalist in America. Nay, the world! First the bullying excerpt, then the excerpt where he bullies the world. Emphases mine. Commenters will supply the subtext: Goldberg was raised in an … Continue reading →

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‘WSJ’ suggests Israel would bomb neighbors before giving up ethnocracy

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Philip Weiss

This is the thinking that scares me, and that is prevalent throughout Jewish life: Mark Helprin saying at the Wall Street Journal in a piece called “Why Israel Needs the Bomb,” that he’s sure glad Israel’s got the bomb because … Continue reading →

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‘Forward’: J Street weathers attack, still has access

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Philip Weiss

Two weeks ago neocons launched an attack on J Street by publishing the unsurprising revelation that the alternative Jewish lobby had gotten money from George Soros. The Washington Times declared that the Obama administration was distancing itself from J Street– … Continue reading →

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Goldberg’s Goldstone smear

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Philip Weiss

Jeffrey Goldberg’s recent attack on J Street included a swipe at Justice Richard Goldstone. Emphasis mine: J Street helped arrange visits by Judge Richard Goldstone, the South African jurist appointed by the U.N. to investigate the most recent conflict in … Continue reading →

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Jews with guns

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Philip Weiss

My wife and I were talking about our visit to Israel. I could relate to Israelis in a way that she could not. I wanted to write about my feelings, for instance, about seeing so many Israeli youths with guns, … Continue reading →

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Don’t forget ‘The Atlantic”s pieties about who destroyed Palestine

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Matthew Taylor

Some around here are just shocked, shocked at the transparently pro-Israel propaganda masquerading as journalism in The Atlantic… but it seems to me this pub has been a tool of Israel’s Ministry of Disinformation for years. For instance, let’s go back to David … Continue reading →

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