Here’s the late great Alfred Lilienthal, back in 1949 when the Reader’s Digest ran anti-Zionist stuff, in a prophetic piece called “Israel’s Flag Is Not Mine,” inveighing against “cheap racial nationalism.” 60 years ago, but it feels real fresh: I…
Alfred Lilienthal, a leading anti-Zionist writer, died last week. Here’s his obit from the Washington Post: Author, and Middle East expert, Alfred M. Lilienthal, Age 94, died peacefully Monday, October 6, at his home in Washington, DC. Born in New…
David Bromwich has a moving piece on Huffpo about the actual dangerousness of Palin’s loose talk about Obama, linking him to terrorists. David Gergen has been saying this too. Bromwich says it’s a form of delegitimation which we also saw…
I just got a note from a friend saying, “I read a brief announcement in the Washington Post obituary page about the death of [92-year-old anti-Zionist] Alfred Lilienthal last Monday. No full obituary has yet appeared, as far as I…
I got two email responses to the post yesterday re John Brown’s Jewish comrades. David Bloom pointed out that August Bondi, one of them, was not non-violent. Bloom left it at that, and I will too… Now here is my…
Ralph Seliger writes: If my feelings about Iraq were so centered on Israel, wouldn’t I have continued to support the invasion even after the UN Security Council had voted against it? To me, the nightmare scenario is defining the Israeli-Arab…
I had a dream last night about a guy I’ll call David, who is a lawyer in a New York firm with a strong Jewish character. He’s a Zionist, and does some pro-Israel work, on the side. In the dream…
Something else I heard about Avrahum Burg and his new book on Jewish history, due out in 3 weeks, translated from the Hebrew: that it’s blurbed by John Mearsheimer. This is remarkable because it is almost impossible to imagine an…
Ralph Seliger has responded to my lengthy critique of the other day: I was waiting until after Yom Kippur to share something else with you, but now I see there’s this NY Sun business. I only wrote one piece for…