I spoke to a friend last night and asked him if things were changing. He considered that for a while, then said, “Well here is some progress. A month ago Rashid Khalidi was abandoned. Obama could not stand up for…
An important sign I missed that the American discourse is changing. Last week the Guggenheim Museum awarded a $100,000 prize that includes an exhibition of the winner’s work at the Fifth Avenue nautilus itself, to Emily Jacir, a Palestinian who…
It is now widely said that Obama is modeling himself on Lincoln. Wonderful; he should. Last night on “Charlie Rose,” Eric Foner, the Columbia historian, in a discussion of Obama’s transition in historical terms, said that Lincoln had opposed the…
How do we know the cat is out of the bag, as John Mearsheimer says. Well because the settlers are angry. Note this angry attack on J Street, by a colonist friend of the late father of J Street founder…
Just Foreign Policy, a realist/prog group, headed by former Maine congressman Tom Andrews, is circulating a petition that calls on Obama to have “new faces” in his team negotiating Israel/Palestine. My friend Ira Glunts sees this as the anti-Dennis Ross…
I said I met Aaron Levitt last night when he was protesting the Hebron settlers in Manhattan. He got in arguments with a lot of them. It was an amazing thing to watch. Because Levitt knows his Orthodox Judaism, having…
In speculating last night on the racial origin of Ashkenazi Jews, a friend passed along to me this site maintained by Kevin Alan Brook, Khazaria.com, dealing with the controversy over the origins of European Jewry. Medieval Kingdom of Khazaria, 652-1016…
Aaron Levitt was one of the demonstrators outside the Marriott last night as the settlers of Hebron held a big fundraiser inside. Levitt says in a press release on the event: Aaron Levitt, an activist with Jews Against the Occupation-NYC…
The hopeful analysis of Rahm Emanuel as an Americans for Peace Now kinda guy that I quoted at length last week had an author: Lara Friedman, of Americans for Peace Now. Friedman did considerable digging and synthesis to produce that…