Good for NPR. For Israel’s birthday celebration, it interviewed Nina Cullers, a Palestinian-American living in Virginia, who described her family’s flight from Jerusalem in ’48. She says her family picked up and left Jerusalem after the Haganah’s bombing of the…
He won’t. He’s Akiva Eldar, and he writes for Ha’aretz. Eldar’s views are shared by only a tiny minority of Israel’s citizens. But that’s the point. He still has a job. Israel has bandwidth. He would be out of work…
Jeffrey Goldberg’s anti-Israel-lobby piece on last Sunday’s NYT Op-Ed page continues to resonate. So as to understand it better, I watched Goldberg’s starkly-different performance just six months back, on a panel attacking Walt and Mearsheimer at Yivo, the center of…
The other day a friend sent me a piece by the columnist “Spengler” of Asia Times online, saying that Israel is the happiest country in the world, while Arabs are “miserable” and their covetousness makes the idea of peace in…
I’m not the best source on Jewish liturgy but I remember that at Yom Kippur they open the doors of the ark, the cabinet of the law, and later warn you that the doors are closing. The days of atonement…
This piece in Vanity Fair online is historic: it is an open discussion, in a glossy social column, of the social resentment among WASPs toward the new wealth, the Jews and their allegedly-gauche manners, in this instance the (truly) horrifying…
Commentary and I agree for once. Jeffrey Goldberg has embraced Walt and Mearsheimer. After trashing the brave authors last year, says Commentary, Goldberg concedes most of their substantive case. Hooray. Earlier today I said Goldberg showed real courage, and spent…
Speaking of Hillary’s efforts to count Florida on CNN yesterday, congressional correspondent Jessica Yellin said some of Hillary’s methods might not be considered “kosher” by the Democratic Party. It used to be that people used the word “cricket” to convey…
The Huffington Post says that Israeli-American Clinton backer Haim Saban dangled a $1 million gift to the Young Democrats of America during a phone call in which he pushed the group’s two uncommitted super-delegates to commit to Hillary. Saban denies…