Tonight the idea of American exceptionalism will fully surpass that of Jewish exceptionalism.
The highly-evolved Financial Times calls Damascus the “Prague’ of the Arab world–cheap, with a beautiful old city, it has become the cool place for internationals to study Arabic. I’d add these elements: Arab hospitality and the incredible Roman ruins, everywhere….
Amazing piece by the great Uri Avnery at antiwar.com, praying that Obama will ignore the Israel lobby and turn to the peace camp in Israel. 3 shattering excerpts, all emphases mine: Obama, on his part, has gone out of his…
A friend justly took me to task for opening the door on the self-hatred issue, saying this is the blackmail that Israel’s defenders often use. I’m reminded of something Noam Chomsky said, in a piece by painter Menachem Wecker, a…
Rev. Wright is all over the airwaves today, you may have noticed. Thanks to the opaque National Republican Trust. And in the Harvard Crimson too. It is sad that the Crimson runs a piece by a freshman named Avishai Don…
I just want to register the fact that a couple of close friends of mine have sincerely said they think Obama is like Jesus. These are people who are familiar with the historical Jesus, and think, This is what it…
When last I saw Nancy Pelosi and Haim Saban, they were at the AIPAC conference in June. Pelosi was dangling the dogtags of Israeli soldiers taken hostage by hostile forces. Weirded me out: I wondered if she dangles American dogtags?…
Jack Ross had the following (breathtaking) response to my Selma/Gaza post, which touched on the Jewish role in the civil rights movement: I’ve actually been thinking a lot about this lately as it relates to my book [on anti-Zionist Rabbi…
One of the great things Joe Klein said in his seminal piece on Jewish neocons earlier this year was that people who opposed the war or who criticized Israel got bullied. A friend writes to ask: Is Jeffrey Goldberg bullying…