After doing an item yesterday on Kenneth Pollack’s incredible endurance as an expert in the op-ed pages of the NY Times even after being dead wrong about Iraq, I went on the Times site and typed in the name “John…
The American Friends Service Committee has helped organize a tour in the U.S. of a Nakba recognition group from Israel/Palestine. Many Jews are involved in this effort, for instance Jewish Voice for Peace. So are many Palestinians. We all know…
First an apology. I can be narrow in spirit; and I think I went overboard yesterday with that poem. Jerry Slater has reminded me that words really do matter, words like genocide. He’s right. Though I would say that many…
Michael Massing (a friend of mine) has a great piece in the Columbia Journalism Review called “The War Expert,” marvelling at the fact that Brookings Institution scholar Kenneth M. Pollack still gets called up to opine in editorial pages about…
I generally don’t mention Joachim Martillo’s stuff because it’s too out there for me, too crazily brilliant, too much racialism. True, I am constantly dipping into the racial bucket in my analysis here, but Joachim’s too pure in his thinking…
Tim Russert has a politics show on MSNBC after Meet the Press and just now I heard him and guests Tucker Carlson and Ryan Lizza analyze the living hell out of Rev. Wright in Chicago and his black church and…
The Jewish Daily Forward has openly identified “some of” Hillary Clinton’s biggest donors as a “cadre” of Jews with the power to “influence” the Democratic Party’s decision to prolong the fight between her and Obama until the convention, or not….
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs is staging an endless series of talks by “leading foreign policy experts” under the title, “Road to 2008: American Leadership in an Uncertain World.” The series includes neoconservative Joshua Muravchik, the American Enterprise Institute…
When I began collecting string on Jews calling for Nakba commemoration, I thought it was statistically aberrant behavior. Wrong. There is a real groundswell upon us. Ynet reports that Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim will shun festivities surrounding Israel’s 60th birthday…