Jeffrey Goldberg’s piece yesterday in the Times is very important. Goldberg is someone many Jews look to for guidance, and his piece is the green flag to the American Jewish community to have open war over Israel and the lobby….
Jeffrey Goldberg, surely the most powerful Jewish print journalist in the country right now, wrote a vicious review in The New Republic last fall of Walt and Mearsheimer’s book, The Israel Lobby that I never blogged about because I found…
Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League complains bitterly in the Jerusalem Post that Israel’s 60th birthday prompted absolutely equal coverage in U.S. newspapers of the Nakba, featuring “Palestinian[s]-of-the-day.” Gosh, I wish I’d seen all those stories! The Nakba narrative, says…
Tom Friedman has a good piece about the peace process and Israel today, or a halfway digestible one anyway. It is influenced by the goodnatured Aaron David Miller. But Friedman persists in offering the lone-gunman theory of Iraq: The rise…
For the second time in a year, a study has come out showing that young American Jews don’t care about Jewishness and Israel nearly as much as the last generation. Chaim Waxman, a Rutgers professor of sociology emeritus, presented a…
Israeli writer Nahum Barnea penned a sharp attack on choleric Sheldon Adelson, third richest man in America, describing him as a bully and heavyweight who is messing disastrously in Israeli politics. (The piece was picked up from Yediot Aharanot by…
Hardworking James Morris directs my attention to the latest Osama statement in which OBL describes the centrality of the Palestinian cause to the 9/11 attack: Bin Laden began his message by telling listeners that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has always been…
Yesterday I saw the neoconservative Robert Kagan on Charlie Rose. It was an astonishing performance, as it suggested the psychic torment that those who pushed the Iraq war are evidently now undergoing and suppressing at the same time. Kagan’s message…
From time to time commenters on this blog say that American Jews are risking anti-semitic retaliation because of their unwavering and selfish support for Israel. I don’t like this line of argument. It seems vicious, or a veiled threat. Yes,…