If you wonder why Obama can’t run against the neocons, well this is how the world works: Alan Dershowitz is claiming that he is responsible for getting Jimmy Carter banned from speaking at the Democratic Convention because the former president…
It’s Ralph Seliger’s turn: Jack Ross is mostly babbling here. The fact that MAPAM had pro-Soviet sympathies until the Khrushchev’s 1956 revelations about Stalin simply illustrates how left-wing these Zionists were; this has no other relevance to our argument. Obviously…
J Street is asking the right question: Does John McCain believe in the two-state solution? J Street says it can’t get an answer despite its many efforts, and is leery given the fact that Sheldon Adelson has promised $250,000 to…
I’ve never read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the antisemitic Russian forgery of 100 years back, but Jews refer to it all the time. After the AIPAC conference at which Barack Obama shamelessly truckled to the lobby, Jon…
A few days ago I blogged about plans to professionalize my blog, and there were a lot of good comments. Thanks. As usual, I’m flattered by the company. Paul Easton’s very funny. Further thoughts: I accept the point of the…
The other day Saif Ammous analogized the Zionist project to a British Christian coming to the U.S. and solving the country’s problems by making it Christian. Ralph Seliger then criticized the analogy. Now Ammous is responding: Ralph Seliger is unfortunately…
Muhammad Idrees Ahmad responds to my post on torture: I am reminded of what Slavoj Zizek had to say [in the New York Times] about the whole debate. He asks what does it say about a society if people were…
Another juicy quote from that Telegraph piece about Sarah Palin’s education that I mentioned yesterday: A former Republican White House official, who now works at the American Enterprise Institute, a bastion of Washington neoconservatism, admitted: “She’s bright and she’s a…
A couple months back I blogged about an event at Yivo attacking the Walt and Mearsheimer book, which Marty Peretz promised at the start would be frightening and then filled the bill. As I wrote then, I couldn’t listen to…