I’ve finally read Connie Bruck’s profile of the self-proclaimed richest Jew in the world, Sheldon Adelson, in The New Yorker and I’m a little dismayed. I think it’s great the magazine ran the story, and great that it spoke so…
Last week I picked up reports of censorship by Spertus, a Jewish museum in Chicago, of a show called “Imaginary Coordinates” that gave a lot of airtime to Palestinian views of the conflict in Israel/Palestine. I’m returning to the subject…
Inter Press is reporting that its correspondent in Gaza, Mohammed Omer, who is also working for the Washington Report, was stripsearched and assaulted at the border crossing from Jordan on Thursday. Omer, pictured here in London, where he lately won…
J Street, the leftish Jewish lobby, is having an effect. Here is a piece urging Obama to make common cause with the “other Jewish lobby”– not the Likudnik-neocon lobby, AIPAC. Here is J Street’s great ad in the New York…
I have some limited sympathy for Doug Feith as a guy who’s been abruptly marginalized; it’s hard to imagine a more precipitous farewell. It reminds me of seeing former Cheney aide David Wurmser speaking at a New York law firm…
The Washington Independent runs a story by James Risen of the New York Times that makes a half-hearted effort to rehabilitate Douglas Feith. Feith says the piece was killed by the Times.The Washington Independent calls the story “The Return of…
Only in Haaretz. Here is a profile of the “Dutch Jimmy Carter,” a former premier of the Netherlands, Andreas Van Agt, who has accused Israel of terrorism and describes his awakening: [H]e became vocal after 1999, when his “eyes were…
The Joe Klein dual-loyalty assertion is being debated everywhere, including here by Shmuel Rosner, who goes thru some formalities about being an Israeli so he can’t comment then promptly tosses that aside to speak as a member of the Jewish…
Amos Schocken is the publisher of Haaretz. Today in that great newspaper that his family has published for three generations he prints an amazing editorial stating that Israel has become an “apartheid” state because for the eighth time the government…