Realist Mike Desch has a good piece on AIPAC in the Chicago Tribune that describes the presidential nominees’ speeches as a “bidding war” for Jewish support that does not serve Israel. And meantime in a dialogue with Richard Silverstein, Carla…
Here is Noam Chomsky, prophet in a black sweater, saying that polls show a large majority of Americans say that the Middle East should become a nuclear-free zone. American warships, Israel, everybody. But adds that these views are cast aside…
Here is a brilliant angry rant by David Mandelzys, a Canadian Jew, against his parents for the Zionist message he was forcefed at his last seder. Some highlights: Why, here in Canada, where we are a minority amongst a Christian…
In this interview with the Daily Telegraph in England, Israel’s ambassador to Britain says that the country used to be a fair-minded place, but that calls for academic boycotts of Israel and “microscopic” examination of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians have…
This is an amazing piece by Harvard Anthropology Prof Lorand Matory. Published in the Crimson because no one else will publish it, it says everything I say: the Jewish presence in the establishment has had the effect of stifling debate…
I really think we are living in the twilight of the Israel lobby. Just now when it seems so strong, it is starting to fade. I say this because the AIPAC conference this year was so shameless in its display…
Jerome Slater, the author of a groundbreaking article that showed that the New York Times failed to inform opinion leaders in the U.S. of the moral crisis that Israel was putting itself in, even as Haaretz provided Israelis with that…
Some day the left will have to answer for the fact that it harbored the neocons for years after the Iraq war proved to be a disaster. I believe this is in some measure a Jewish problem. Even leftleaning Jews…
I’ve failed to convey one of the most important events at the AIPAC policy conference, the appearance by Tal Becker, chief policy adviser to Tzipi Livni, the foreign minister. This was the most encouraging and positive event at a conference…