I’m reading Lincoln to understand the occupation. This is going to be one of my ongoing themes, might as well tell you now, how Lincoln worked at himself over 3 decades to bring slavery down. No, the occupation isn’t slavery,…
A lot of the stuff I write for this blog is critical or angry or mocking, reflecting my angst over the state of the Jews and my anger at the neocons for pushing the Iraq War. Today I’m sitting down…
I saw Jack Ross the other day in New York city and heard his rabbi refer to him as a “silent genius.” Nice words. One reason I’m drawn to Jack is that he utterly lacks a problem I have: I…
All you need to know about the Israel/Palestine situation (as I say often on this blog) is that in 1947, four groups were promised states in Asia: Indians, Pakistanis, Jews and Arabs in Palestine. Three of these groups got a…
Obama’s still opaque to me. I have no idea of his motivation. Scares me that he has hired so many Harvard Law School grads you can’t even count em. Bill Clinton was into Rhodes Scholars, another meritocratic blue ribbon. Mike…
That’s from a great letter To the New York Times in 1992 by a guy in Brookline, birthplace of Mondoweiss. The guy’s name is Andrew Perrin and he now seems to teach political sociology at UNC. Has a nice face….
Children in Ni’lin demonstrate against the annexation wall and as they advance on the construction are tear-gassed by Israeli soldiers. Which side are you on?
How did I ever get my little pariah fingers on this thing? A report on “Israel Advocacy,” by the “Strategic Planning Subcommittee” of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston says that–are you sitting down?–Israel has a giant image problem in…
The lasting image I’ll have of yesterday’s conference on Jews against the war 6 years after the fact will be of Rabbi David Saperstein of the Union for Reform Judaism going on at length and almost angrily, citing Hebrew words…