What a disgrace. McCain has called Rashid Khalidi’s going-away party the equivalent of a neo-Nazi gathering. Let’s get this party started! Finally the campaign is turning to true differences between Obama and McCain over the Middle East. Drudge is featuring…
Palestine is making headway in Hollywood. Mary-Kate Olsen and Tea Leoni and some other purty actresses are asking that their names be delinked from a new foto book called Hollywood Pinups, which promotes Lev Leviev, the funder of West Bank…
They did it again! The latest Gaza-blockade-runner made it by sea from Cyprus. And The Irish Times gives them the hero’s welcome. They brought medical supplies. And Israel warned them not to try it. Why oh why isn’t this news…
Move over Christian fundamentalists. The real religious battle in this year’s campaign is finally breaking the surface. The LA Times has a video of a going away party for Palestinian New Historian Rashid Khalidi in Chicago in 2003 where Barack…
Joe the Plumber was asked if a vote for Obama was a vote for the “death of Israel,” and he said, “I agree.” I think at a Republican National Committee event. So Joe is now the official id of the…
Israeli soldiers are protecting the Palestinian olive harvest. About time. I guess this means we are getting the one-state solution whether we like it or not. I’m not being visionary. This reflects two large realities: Israel insists on having a…
Brad Greenberg has his ear to the ground and has two posts here and here basically about the fact that there is racism toward Obama even in privilege Jewish circles. In one instance, an Orange County blogger posting a picture…
I got a lot out of listening to neo-pagan Adrian Ivakhiv on public radio earlier this year. To repeat his lesson: all peoples are gripped by geographical/mythical fantasies. They all “want” to return. So: millions of Diaspora Jews say at…
Sheldon Adelson has lost $16 billion this year, ABC News reports. What will happen to Birthright, Freedom’s Watch, and the Republican Jewish Coalition ads that say Obama will bring back the Holocaust?