Today’s Chicago Tribune finally covers the censorship of Walt and Mearsheimer at the Global Affairs Council and highlights the shocking fact that Abe Foxman–the denier of Armenian genocide out of concern for the state of Israel– was consulted by the…
In an ad in the Boston Globe, the Anti-Defamation League says the controversy over its nonrecognition of the Armenian genocide in Turkey in ’15-’18 has “nothing to do” with its program of fighting hatred and bigotry. Huh. It goes on…
The Globe reports that the ADL fired its regional director in New England over his statements calling for an acknowledgment of Armenian genocide. And Foxman states in his letter “explaining” the decision that the security of Israel is paramount. Ergo,…
Alan Dershowitz has a nice piece in The Boston Globe telling the truth about Armenian genocide in 1915 (I said WWI in an earlier post; my bad). It would have been better if he had lit into the ADL for…
Activist Hilda Silverman has a wonderful letter in the Boston Globe, attacking the Anti-Defamation League for refusing to acknowledge the Armenian genocide by the Turks in the First World War. Silverman points out that the ADL position springs from support…
When I was in Syria last year I tried to have a conversation in a restaurant with an Arab friend, a woman, about women’s rights in the Arab world and she held up her hand. “Let’s have this discussion back…
When Cal Ripken Jr. was inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame a few weeks back, he thanked his teammate Eddie Murray ahead of a lot of others, and Murray, seated on the Cooperstown stage because he entered the Hall…
Last night on NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams opened a report on Chinese toys by saying it was a story a lot of “families with children” have been watching. I think Williams is being demographically-correct and offering a wider definition…
According to this Amazon list, The Israel Lobby by Walt and Mearsheimer was #18 in sales for new and forthcoming books this a.m. Just a bounce from yesterday’s piece in the Times, or are things changing? Someone better get these…