The world keeps changing. The Globe has a shocking story on Brandeis’s student senate tabling/killing a resolution to congratulate Israel on making 60. The resolution sparked more than two hours of debate on the senate floor on March 9, leaving…
How many years will it be till neoconservative Commentary Magazine apologizes for its Nakba denial? 5, 10, 50? Well, I’m setting the egg-timer. Because the National Post of Canada, a neocon hive–owned by rightwing Jews, long guarantor of a platform…
Yesterday Richard Silverstein offered a criticism of Times reporter Ethan Bronner’s comments on the Nakba: [Ethan] Bronner has done a good job of channeling a certain Israeli nationalist perspective on the necessity of retaining Jewish dominance within the State of…
Something’s happened in the last year: the debate over the 1967 borders is giving way to a debate over the ’48 borders. Ilan Pappe said this was happening in his book on ’48, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, now it’s…
George Will agrees that Obama is like Reagan: McCain’s problem might turn out to be the fact that Obama is the Democrats’ Reagan. Obama’s rhetorical cotton candy lacks Reagan’s ideological nourishment, but he is Reaganesque in two important senses: People…
Adalah-New York’s campaign against Leviev, the Russian-Israeli diamond dealer who has funded colonies in the West Bank, has new bite. Dubai has reconsidered and rejected plans by Leviev to open two stores there, evidently because of his role in illegal…
A month or so back I said that Obama was going to pull racists into his coalition. Today’s dailykos has proof, a poster describing how his/her mother in Kentucky said she wasn’t “ready for a colored man to be president,”…
Yesterday I said that Ahmadinejad hasn’t called for the end of Judaism, he has called for the end of the state of Israel–in something of the way that George Bush called for the end of the secular Arab dictatorship in…
It seems that Israel’s 60th birthday is not triggering wild celebration around the world. Even the American discourse is changing. The cheers are muted. In Le Monde Diplomatique, they are openly savaging the “ethnic cleansing of Palestine” and repudiating the…