A couple weeks ago I watched an Asian-American panel on C-Span talking about responses in their community to the Virginia Tech shootings. The main feeling was, shame; they worried that non-Asian Americans would blame the Asian community for the murders….
Neocon Scooter Libby has lots of friends, and many wrote letters to his judge, alas to little effect. (Pat Buchanan believes the huge sentence to be “punitive.” I agree.) A couple things interest me about the letters. Paul Wolfowitz says…
The furor over the immigration bill also involves that word I like: assimilation. Note Ann Coulter’s rage against Hispanics here: [T]raitors who are citizens have destroyed all acculturating institutions… Until the recipient culture is capable of doing an effective job…
APN and AAI set up a conference call today to announce their poll results (below) and when I asked AAI’s Jim Zogby why more Arab-Americans (6%) would have the U.S. lean towards Israel in its Mideast policy than lean towards…
A new poll of Arab-American and American Jewish attitudes on Israel/Palestine shows remarkable agreement. “Seeing eye to eye,” claim the poll’s sponsors, the Arab American Institute and Americans for Peace Now. To wit: –98 percent of Jews says Israelis have…
A couple weeks back, I mentioned Noam Chomsky’s assertion that the smear of Jews who criticize Israel as being “self hating” originated in 1973 in comments by Abba Eban in an American Jewish Congress publication. I looked up that old…
Eloquent, moving, brilliant: the best words for Tony Karon’s reminiscence/analysis of the ’67 war in Israel/Palestine, and its lasting effects… Three excerpts follow: 1, Karon’s unflinching description of ethnic cleansing in ’48 (dispensing with the “They were told to flee”…