I sometimes quote people from memory (it’s a literary tradition) and sometimes I get them wrong. My old friend Dan Fleshler is irritated that I casually quote from a panel we had together a year or so back at an…
The Harvard Crimson reports that J. Lorand Matory, a harsh critic of Israel and of the former president Lawrence Summers, is out at Harvard, and on to Duke. Matory said that Harvard didn’t match Duke’s offer. Earlier this year I…
We’re a couple of weeks away from the New York Sun either staggering forward or closing down; it would seem that billionaire Bruce Kovner, one of the original funders, has lost interest in his ultra-Zionist offspring. Kovner is a financial…
“I bet you thought you’d heard it all by now,” says David Bloom. You haven’t. Palestinian news network is reporting that Israeli forces “arrested” a herd of Palestinian cows: On both Sunday and Monday and continuing into today Israeli forces…
This is weird, paranoid. “A WORD ABOUT ASSESSING THE RISK: It’s hard to know how serious the threat to a particular institution is.” Notice the background of the image looks a little fiery, like Kristallnacht. Sadly, this reflects on Zionism….
Ralph Benmergui, a Canadian Jew of Arab ancestry, has a fabulous piece in the Globe and Mail rejecting the summons of the Israel lobby and addressing a spirit of universalism in Jewish life. He hits my central issue with Zionism,…
videos of Israeli gunboats shooting at Palestinian fishing boats. Filmed by a Scot; and the Herald says that Tony Blair’s sister-in-law was on the recent Gaza blockade-run. Change, world, change. (thanks to David Bloom)
Alan Dershowitz’s vicious and repeated characterization of Jimmy Carter, a great man who builds homes for poor people among other activities, as a “bigot” is of a piece with Marty Peretz saying two years back that Carter will go down…
My wife was standing at the computer right now when I got a note saying that I’d gotten a generous donation thru my blog. I ran to the other room in disbelief. It’s the third time today. She came to…