I first heard about “Anna in the Middle East” in July from my friend Andrea Whitmore, a Christian activist in Kansas City. “You have to meet Anna, she’s glorious and beautiful,” Whitmore said. I looked up her website: Anna Baltzer…
I love Haaretz, it is covering clashes between twisted sicko Jewish colonialists in Hebron trying to disrupt the Palestinian olive harvest and international press/volunteers. Photographers were injured, slightly, so was a British woman trying to help. An international effort, and…
A few posts down from this is a post I did mocking the ADL for being so wigged out about anti-semitic theory proliferating in the wake of the market meltdown. The Jews got out with all their money, that kind…
Amnesty International has issued an urgent call to action re 6 Palestinian children with heart defects who were supposed to be operated on this week in East Jerusalem, but Israel has not let them out. Sami Atwa Abu Ishaq (m),…
Jack Ross writes, re Marty Peretz and Obama: I think you’re way off, if in fact that’s your implication, that Peretz is going to be in the same camp as Jeffrey Goldberg or even Olmert. He, like many Jewish “liberals”,…
MJ Rosenberg, who’s a lot closer to the ground than I am, says that this may be the year that everything has changed. My hopeful reading, anyway. AIPAC “claptrap” is at an ebb, McCain and Obama are both for the…
Only in Haaretz: Here is Zeev Sternhell, victim of attempted murder, saying that the rise of “colonial Zionism” –i.e., violent, religious settler movement–has hastened the arrival of a binational state. “Apartheid is already here,” he says, in Hebron. (Not a…
The ADL has a grisly poster on its site, and scary scary lead: Conspiracy theories linking Jews and Israel to the global financial meltdown are taking on global reach as the financial crisis on Wall Street continues to affect markets…
This article in the Jewish Journal underlines my point of yesterday: worried Jews, paranoid Jews, are sticking with McCain. So Obama might win with only 60 percent of the Jewish vote, and these will be the “more enlightened” (I put…