A truly disturbing and shocking story from Israel of an attack on leftwing prof/columnist Ze’ev Sternhell (lately quoted by Eric Alterman in the Nation). He walked out of his door in Jerusalem at midnight and a pipe bomb went off….
Lately Ralph Seliger responded here to Saif Ammous on the issue of refugees from ’48, saying that the compensation envisioned by the Geneva initiative of ’03 is sufficient to extinguish the right of return. Below Saif Ammous responds. I’d offer…
Here’s a video by comic Sarah Silverman urging Jews to fly to Florida to push their grandparents to vote for Obama. “The great schlep,” it’s called. A few comments: Silverman is supposedly out there, says anything she likes, so of…
When I worked at Esquire we had a feature called Women We Love. Well, these are Israeli high school girls who are refusing to serve the occupation: Omer Goldman, Tamar Katz, Mia Tamarin. Notice in the picture above the photo…
Bernard-Henri Levy was on Charlie Rose today (rebroadcast from last night), introduced as a philosopher and as Rose’s friend. He struck me as a comic character, full of easy piety and drama, vain, and taking a swipe at a man…
With bated breath, last week I mentioned the big conference this week at Harvard’s Middle East Strategy group of the Olin Institute, on American finding its way after Bush. A lot of neocons, and a guy named Adam Garfinkle from…
On my way to the Brooklyn Friends’ meeting house last night for a presentation on a Palestinian village in the West Bank that has lost its land to the Israeli army, I talked by phone with a friend who sighed…
Jack Ross says I’m too hard on Ahmadinejad. I don’t know what to say; Ross is 23 and so much better read than I am that my jaw simply drops. Another jaw-dropper: Insofar as you’re correct to point out that…
Here’s a pro-Obama piece in Moment, a Jewish publication, by Letty Cottin Pogrebin, a leading feminist, co-founder of Ms. I think of Pogrebin as a big liberal. And what’s interesting here is that she basically says that McCain and Obama…