This Sunday, CAMERA, the Committe for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, is holding a conference about Jewish defamers of Israel. Their word, defame. Cynthia Ozick will be there, so will Alvin Rosenfeld, who wrote the paper for the…
I went to a party last night in the city and met an Israeli. Handsome, tall, a chest as broad as a desk. We talked about movement between the U.S. and Israel, and I asked him about the Israeli reputation…
Congratulations are due to John Podhoretz, chosen to become the next editor of Commentary in 14 months. Nonetheless, the appointment is shocking. Podhoretz is famous on the internet as a gadfly and horse’s ass; once he sent me a note,…
For a guy who writes about the Israel lobby all the time, you’d think I would have related all I personally know about the lobby by now. Not true. I’ve never told this story. I live in New York’s 19th…
One of Israel’s most fascinating functions for American Jewry is, It is our id. Here we have responsibility, logic, power, and indirection. There they have brawn, testosterone, impulse, straightforwardness. When I was young, women used to say that over in…
On this morning’s McLaughlin Group, U.S. World & News Report editor Mortimer Zuckerman said that the legislation to recognize the Armenian genocide of 1915-19 poses a foreign policy “disaster” for the United States and is the result of a well-heeled…
Giuliani adviser Daniel Pipes (writing in Jerusalem) and I are in complete agreement: Zionism is in crisis. Zionism suited the spirit of its times. Zionism arose from real conditions in Europe and spoke to the soul of American Eastern-European Jewry)….
I’m not the only one with an identity crisis. Watching the NLCS last night, I noticed that the Diamondbacks have two logos. The first is the wavy D formed by a snake on their caps. The second is a more…
The latest negative review of Walt and Mearsheimer’s book was particularly baroque: Samuel G. Freedman in the Washington Post writing about the Christian concept of original sin and saying that W/M have that view of Israel (and nary a word…