More on artists and Israel. Here is a story my mom sent me, written by a Louie Kemp, a Minnesotan, speaking of his friendship with the late Marlon Brando. Kemp says that in ’46 Brando gave tons of money to…
Nadine Gordimer–South African, Jewish, Nobelist–is under pressure to boycott a writers’ conference in Israel that she had signed up to appear at next month. (Thus spake Haaretz, no it’s not in the American press.) Looks like she’ll boycott. On Thursday,…
Last Tuesday night on Charlie Rose, Jacob Weisberg offered grim insight re Obama. He said that Hillary had just done to Obama what Republicans do to Democratic presidential candidates in the general election: portrayed him as elitist and out of…
I’m still a little stunned from hearing Israeli Ambassador Gillerman’s “bigot” comments about former President Carter yesterday. Such chutzpah, and condescension. And keep in mind that he didn’t do this at the U.N. or the Israeli consulate. No, he was…
–Kos says Obama outperformed Hillary in small Pennsylvania towns, improving on his performance in Ohio. These are the “clinging” towns that are supposed to be angry at him; –The press turns. It’s the nature of the beast. Now all the…
In this wonderful interview on Znet, Norman Finkelstein says that his next book will be called, A Farewell to Israel: The Coming Breakup of American Zionism. Finkelstein is a brilliant historian, and has led the process that he describes: I…
Barack Obama is black. He had a white mother and was raised by his white grandparents, and the white world continually reached out to include him, but he was more comfortable in the black world. It’s where he needed to…
In his speech today at the Israel Project, Ambassador Dan Gillerman said that Jimmy Carter was a “bigot” who had gone to the Middle East with “soiled hands and came back with bloody hands,” because he had shaken hands with…
Israel is a “far better” country than most others, Dan Gillerman, the Israeli Ambassador to the U.N., said today in a speech to journalists gathered by the Israel Project to celebrate Israel’s 60th birthday. Gillerman spoke in a 38th floor…