Nearly two months ago, Saif Ammous attacked the peace process as a delusion here. Part of his analysis: Israel has absolutely no intention of giving away anything meaningful in the West Bank—certainly nothing on which anyone could establish a viable…
The meritocracy hates Ralph Nader. He’s getting trashed all over Huffington today. That’s because Ralph is a true revolutionary. He changed the auto industry, despises capitalism, has always worked outside the system, is Lebanese and understands the plight of the…
The country is sick of unilateralism, unipolarism (to use the neocons’ arrogant word). The Oscars this year were a bath of internationalism. Javier Bardem won Best Actor and spoke in exalted Spanish, a nonverbal French chick won Best Actress, surprising…
Politico has posted Michelle Obama’s thesis in sociology from 1985: “Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community.” The work is an at-times agonized treatise on the racial divide. Going to Princeton, the woman then named Michelle Robinson wrote, will “likely lead…
With appropriate scorn, Dan Fleshler has picked up a memo in which the Obama campaign distances itself from any critical statement ever made about Israel by anyone who ever shook hands with Obama or sent him his resume. Obsequious and…
As you might know, an exhibit of horrifying photographs of the Occupation taken by Israeli soldiers (and sponsored by a host of progs including Brit Tzedek, APN, Jewschool) is touring the U.S. The Ivies anyway–Penn and on to Harvard. One…
Just as I said they should do, Hillary’s people have attacked Obama’s position re Israel, reports Newsweek. Alas it is a whispering campaign, with sly hints about the fact that Brzezinski, who is on Obama’s team, endorsed the Walt-Mearsheimer paper…
Last fall, Norman Finkelstein lost his job at DePaul because of the Israel lobby. As he put it in his only statement on the matter: [M]y department voted overwhelmingly to tenure me as did the college-level tenure committee, which voted…
I just looked at the comment section of the youtube speech by Congressman Howard Berman the other night in Sherman Oaks. It’s stunning how much rage there is toward Berman: Portrait of a hypnotized zionist tool. He can’t even see…