Reporting on the alternative new Israel lobby, Dan Fleshler scores two points that bear repeating. The first one is joyful news to me, that dovish Jewish organizations “have increasingly worked in tandem on legislative initiatives with Churches for Middle East…
I just did a piece on Zbig Brzezinski for the American Conservative, tried to get him to break loose re Israel/Palestine. The man was careful. But I say it’s the Jeffrey Goldberg effect–when Goldberg all-but-embraced the Walt and Mearsheimer thesis…
Nakba commemorations are coming to an end. This month has been a real eye-opener for me, raised my consciousness. I want to talk about Nakba here in strictly emotional terms. One of the signal moments for me came when Nadia…
Paul Berman says something smart in this generally-obnoxious feed from a Nextbook festival on Jewish power (!)–written up by in the NY Sun by Adam Kirsch– to which of course no critics of Jewish power, even Jewish critics, were invited….
One of my closest friends in this life and the hereafter is Tony Schmitz, a writer I met in 1976 in Minnesota. At the time, he was my first German-Catholic. From a very small town in the German-American zone, surely…
Jerry Haber’s post on Norman Finkelstein’s deportation is great (as LeaNder has noted). He writes as a progressive Zionist. But lovers of learning should be appalled by the Finkelstein rebuke. He’s an intellectual. They would seem to be afraid that…
Yesterday Mike Desch, author of the new book, Power and Military Effectiveness, the Fallacy of Democratic Triumphalism, knowing of my fascination with issues of dual loyalty, passed along this exchange from Haaretz. In it the writer David Samuels speaks of…
I think Sword of Gideon is an asset to this site as he often cuts my piety and informs me about sports and religious matters. But lately he made a kind of death threat to Norman Finkelstein that I deleted,…
Thanks to a commenter for pointing out that Jim Lobe has reported that the website of Kristol’s daring Project for a New American Century, having rubbished this century, is now kaput. I suppose we will get the full story from…