Last night I attended the annual gala of the Israel Policy Forum in New York. My strongest impression of it, forever, will be the moment I was leaving and the great Mitchell Plitnick of B’tselem grabbed my arm and said,…
A while back I said that Avraham Burg, the former speaker of the Knesset, is an assimilationist. I did so because I sensed early on in his new book that he was nostalgic for the mixed Germany before the rise…
Civil war in the news; Yahoo is fronting a story of the showdown between the IDF and settlers over a house in Hebron. Adam Horowitz writes: Why is it that Palestinians are always the ones getting attacked in the middle…
A few weeks back I ran a friend’s review of “Religulous” that pointed out Bill Maher’s double-standard for Christian evangelicals and Jews. A man who just saw the film–“Rand Meko”–found that review online, and sent me the following note: I…
Another reason I insist that it’s gotterdamerung for the Israel lobby is that the old power paradigms are going out the window. The other day I was bitching about money to a friend who’s in journalism school, and she said,…
More fuel for my belief that the power of the lobby has peaked: Trita Parsi, realist, writing about why Obama doesn’t need more sanctions against Iran, he already has the tools to do this diplomatically… The neoconservatives really are passing…
Got this wrong yesterday. The diamonds and champagne and Harvey Weinstein’s small world party is happening tonight on Madison Avenue. Adalah NY is gathering at 62/5th at 6 pm then going on to Leviev’s boite. In Haaretz, here is Alex…
Sky Redoubt just sent me this. It’s blowing my mind. Sometimes Yisrael Medad, a rightwing Zionist, and I are on the same page. Some day maybe we’ll be friends? Here’s a post he has about the fact–is it a fact–that…