Been meaning to mention this. I had the privilege, three weeks ago, of attending the Dalton School commencement at Lincoln Center. Dalton is an elite private high school in New York City. Maybe the most elite. Michael Steinhardt sent his…
Jerry Slater (who supports Sam Nunn or Any General as Obama’s VP) says I’m being intemperate in my views of Jews and money in the presidential race: I think your attack on the Salon article is overstated, and downright intemperate….
I always say our journalism is broken when it comes to the Middle East and the Israel lobby: basic political questions go unasked, and unanswered, because journalists are afraid of raising what are said to be antisemitic canards. One of…
Nation editor Katrina Vanden Heuvel asked J Street’s leader about its position re AIPAC: I challenged Jeremy Ben-Ami about J Street’s decision not to directly respond to some of what was said at AIPAC’s recent annual meeting in order to…
Two mistakes: My headline and story on the new polling data were bad. The response everyone smart has to this new data is that 71 percent of Americans want an even-handed policy in the Middle East. Yes! Remember what happened…
I tend to underplay the real affinity that some Americans have for Israel, because I’m a progressive, and I find the general claim by Zionists, that the 2 countries are joined at the hip, hogwashian. But I know there are…
Yesterday World Public Opinion presented a poll at the Brookings Institution showing that people in 18 countries, including the U.S., don’t want their governments to take sides in the Israel/Palestine struggle by 58 to 27 on average. But of those…
I have a piece on AIPAC in the forthcoming American Conservative. You have to buy it. If it goes online, I’ll link and offer further impressions. My piece contains flashes of real sympathy; it was great for me to hang…
I continue to applaud the New Yorker’s knocking off Sheldon Adelson last week, but with one hand. It has the feeling of special pleading to me. In fact, it even created an undercurrent of sympathy in me for its villain,…