This list of Harvard Law faculty’s books includes three by Alan Dershowitz. Three in a year. I love a cigar but sometimes I take it out of my mouth, Groucho said (he was talking to a guy on the $64,000…
My headline’s a fabrication. Sorry, you got me redhanded. Here’s an interesting thread on a Jewish site about the superior attitudes toward “goyim” that are inculcated in Hebrew schools and other Jewish settings. One woman, Stephanie, says she took her…
Those are the words of a court ruling in Israel (slightly paraphrased). This is why I’m down on Zionism: ethnic cleansing. From the Sunday Herald in scotland: Both the Ottoman Empire and the British in Palestine in the 1920s acknowledged…
Today on Morning Edition, I heard Cokie Roberts, who has a binational state in her own household (she and her Jewish husband celebrate both religious traditions and do not practice ethnic cleansing) say “Merry Christmas!” Claiming it boldly. Jeffrey Goldberg…
Adam Horowitz writes: When I first read this JTA headline: Top U.S. peace negotiator exits, I hoped that Dennis Ross had finally decided to skip town, but it refers to David Welch, the assistant secretary of state for Near East…
Adam Horowitz: Haaretz says members of an exclusive Orthodox synagogue in NY lost $2 billion to Bernie Madoff. According to the New York Post, the synagogue was a breeding ground for Madoff investors given that its president, J. Ezra Merkin,…
Richard Silverstein has a beautiful/savage critique of Ethan Bronner’s Avrum Burg piece in yesterday’s Times. An extended excerpt: There is a certain element of dismissal in the reporterâs portrayal of Burgâs current role in Israeli society and in his appraisal…
Caroline Kennedy’s answer to a Politico question re Israel/Jerusalem is too vague for an unnamed leader Politico runs to, anonymously: On Israel, always a central issue in New York politics, she responded to a question about supporting an Israeli airstrike…
The Insitute for Research: Middle East Policy is alleging that upwards of $50 billion of U.S. funds are going to the landgrab on the West Bank, the “illegal colonization of the West Bank.” And the money is being “laundered,” in…