David Zucker is a movie producer who once demonstrated against the Vietnam War. Lately he’s gone way right–the predictable way stations were 9/11, the Republican Jewish Committee, and Ahmadinejad–and making a movie, American Carol, that seeks to make fun of…
Six Israeli universities are challenging Defense Minister Ehud Barak over a quota that the military has imposed on the numbers of Palestinian students who can attend the schools: 60 a year, because any more threatens Israel’s security. I remember how…
I’m still reelin and rockin from Joe Klein’s statement/confession that Jewish neoconservatives made the Iraq war happen. Of course the key word in it is Jewish. That’s what’s got the Foxmans and Commentary bloggers so upset. Because the essential understanding…
Everyone is talking about Glenn Greenwald’s fine piece on how the anthrax scare was used to justify the Iraq war back in 2002–that the alleged Saddam-anthrax connection was what tipped guys like Richard Cohen to support the disastrous invasion. Read…
The Forward used to be fearful about the charge that Israel-centric neocons drove the Iraq war planning. When Walt and Mearsheimer said as much, the Forward accused them of antisemitism; “in dark times blame the Jews.” Now, in the wake…
Now I’ve got ads. (Thanks to some helpful friends.) I’ll let you know what the first check looks like, gonna tape it to the wall. I keep saying I want to monetize this thing. If it works out, count on…
I keep pushing for a more detailed discussion of the issues surrounding Palestinian statehood in the American press, so Americans can figure out whether they’re on Doug Feith’s side–One Jerusalem–or J Street’s. Real Clear Politics runs a helpful piece today,…
Jack Ross, a frequent guest blogger on this site, is a 23-year-old Jew living in Brooklyn who shares my view that Jews need to get past religious nationalism. He is preparing a biography of the late anti-Zionist rabbi Elmer Berger…
An exchange earlier this year between Haaretz and the Israeli writer A.B. Yehoshua on dual loyalty: Q: Do you feel anger toward diaspora Jews? If your children were to decide tomorrow not to live here, to live abroad, would you…