Next in my series of Non-Zionist Stories (modeled on the Zionist Stories AIPAC tells at its annual policy conference) is Andrea Whitmore of Kansas City. A forceful, spirited woman, “Andy” Whitmore deserves attention from anyone who cares about these issues…
On reflection I have to say that while I was cheering him on, Michael Scheuer went a little overboard yesterday in his indictment of the neocons on antiwar.com: Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Norman Podhoretz, Victor Davis Hanson, the Rev. Franklin Graham,…
Inter Press has this account of the Jewish/Palestinian campaign to get lefty actress Susan Sarandon to come out against Lev Leviev, the diamond merchant and colonizer whose Madison Ave store she has regrettably patronized. A representative for Sarandon told IPS…
I’m late for the neocon bus! Last week the Washington Post ran an Op-Ed by a Harvard Law student calling for an investigation of the National Endowment for the Humanities for its funding of Arabic instruction materials. The student, who…
David Bloom of Adalah New York writes me apropos of my post on the Israeli settler who wrote to Haaretz about the rights of Palestinians: “… That settler has deluded himself into thinking that he can live in Gush Etzion…
The effect of Joe Klein’s comment re dual loyalty has been incredible. He’s broken the seal. Here is Michael Scheuer writing on antiwar.com that for the neocons and Liebermans, it’s Israel first last and always, and it’s time for the…
The Wall Street Journal piece on Sheldon Adelson is just OK. It says he’s the cash cow for the Republican Party and says he’s religious on Israel in a neoconservative kinda way. The piece doesn’t move the ball down the…
The other day I did a post quoting a foreigner, an “Arabist,” commenting on Israel’s transformation of the Middle East and other matters. This was deceptive and I regret it. The man is an Arab. Yes he’s an Arabist but…
In the comment section of a Haaretz piece on the arrest of a settler for a failed attack on a Palestinian village, there is a great exchange between a settler and a peace activist, Natallie Durson, who I believe is…