More to say on the responses to my post, The Anti-Semites Are on My Side on These Issues, and how much should I care? First, Richard Witty never asked me to ban any commenters. What he did was suggest that…
In the comments to my recent post on Antisemites being on my side of these issues, Richard Witty said that I had failed to demonstrate journalistic “due diligence” and had indulged in a “prejudicial journalistic exercise” in reporting from Hebron…
I heard a great story about Uri Avnery. A former member of the Irgun, the terrorist organization in the ’40s, he became a member of the Knesset in the ’60s and began speaking out against the occupation. Someone took him…
I love sport, but the Olympics are creeping me out. The eerily empty venues. The massive torch on the stadium at a time when the world is sucking oil–very Munich. The way the Chinese hurdler, the gold medal guy at…
Jerry Slater has a smart piece in the Buffalo News saying that we can deter a nuclear-armed Iran but that deterrence is not the answer, disarmament is. Slater has a supple grasp on history. Some excerpts: Suppose… that nothing can…
David Shasha at 3 Quarks has analyzed the 92d Street Y’s program of events on the Upper East Side of NY in the coming year and concluded that while a plethora of non-Jews are invited to speak on many subjects,…
David Bloom says that he believes David Makovsky of WINEP misrepresented to Congress the Palestinian position on the Israeli fence crossing their lands when he said that they would accept it, with compensation. Bloom sent me the following links. Here…
Here is an amazing forthcoming piece by David Klein, a math professor at California State, about trying to get Norman Finkelstein hired at his school over the last year to no avail. As you may recall, Finkelstein lectured at the…
Jack Ross had a sharp historical response to the news from Ma’ariv I blogged about earlier today: I long felt that Israel’s blockade and “withdrawal” from Gaza resembled nothing so much as Stalin’s Ukrainian policy, but after reading Pat Buchanan’s…