Another horrifying story from the Occupied Territories. This one took place yesterday in Nablus. An Israeli raid on a house where a Palestinian was apparently accused of owning a weapon. A beating. A 20-year-old neighbor, Waled Fareed Fretekh, comes to…
My friend Saif Ammous had this response to Ralph Seliger’s faith that progressivism and Zionism are not mutually exclusive: Jack is a British Christian who believes in the value of Christian peoplehood, culture and/or religion, as Ralph Seliger “believes in…
Another in the series, How to Think About Darfur, by James North: Here’s a link to the most important single magazine article I have read over at least the past 5 years; it appeared in the British publication Prospect. Bartle…
I worried that I would not get into the Yale debate with John Mearsheimer last night because it would be so crowded by hostile faction and faculty, but this was not a worry. A great hall with coffered ceiling teemed…
I’m just back from a tremendous evening at Yale University, where the undergraduate debating society, the Yale Political Union, held a long discussion of the resolution, The U.S. Should End Its Special Relationship With Israel, featuring a stemwinder from John…
Ralph Seliger is disturbed with me for linking to Joachim Martillo, whom he describes as an antisemite. He says that I am risking my credibility and soul. I take those ideas seriously. Seliger: “I have felt creeped out by the…
Help sought: A couple years ago a Hollywood guy whose name I forget–something like Clay Sikoren–approached me about my last book, American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps, to option it and do a screenplay. Because I was getting…
I keep saying that my side is winning, inside Jewish life. Well, here’s another Jew for whom the Israeli occupation is a sine qua non of his understanding of Israel: bookseller Ira Glunts, taking on the Israel lobby, and commenting…
A list of books then-mayor Sarah Palin allegedly was targeting to ban from the Wasilla public library is getting wide circ on the net. Shakey’s on there–Merchant of Venice. So’s Mark Twain. The LATimes is not going with the list…