I’m like Michelle Obama today, proud to be a Jew for once! Why? Aussie journalist Antony Loewenstein has a beautiful piece in Haaretz commending newly-elected Australian P.M. Kevin Rudd for his apology to the Aboriginals for the terrors done to…
Campaigns are about establishing important distinctions between candidates and educating the public about issues. Now that she’s in a corner, Hillary Clinton ought to call Barack Obama about his ideas re Israel/Palestine. Many of her supporters clearly believe that Obama…
Last night some friends had a dinner party and they told the table about a hellish flight they had been on. Heathrow to Newark, but the flight stopped at Shannon because the bathrooms weren’t working, and they spent 24 hours…
Here Gershom Gorenberg analyzes the ways that Israeli colonization schemes (settlements) continue in the West Bank in direct violation of the “road map” and other American declarations–for instance, in Har Homa, which Israel considers to be part of Jerusalem–and other…
At Columbia U. the other night the Israeli scholar Idith Zertal sought to explain Palestinian violence. Zertal was speaking on the heels of Rashid Khalidi, a professor at Columbia who in faulting all parties to the Gaza crisis faulted Palestinians…
Peter Applebome’s column on the anti-Israel lecture that the Greenwich Library censored and then allowed to take place suffered from the weary tone that many journalists adopt when they do Israel/Palestine stories. The Oh-my, don’t people get worked up over…
I am bad about reading comments. I don’t like to admit this because it is hard to excuse, especially in a blog that claims to care about ideas. My chief reasons are, I don’t get paid for this (and have…
At least a half dozen times in recent months, the suggestion has come from serious people that Jews predominate in the American media–that if we are not dominant, we are a major bloc. In a Yivo event on Jews in…
In the American Conservative, Scott McConnell notes that the liberal blogosphere goes nuts when anyone raises the “Barack Hussein Obama” issue–as Bob Kerrey did, mildly, wondering if Obama’s background would stop people from voting for him–but that in fact the…