Only in Haaretz. Rashid Khalidi becomes a lightning rod figure in the presidential race, he is smeared up and down our printing presses, and who does a piece debriefing him on the business? Akiva Eldar. Wow. Eldar says that Khalidi…
Adam Horowitz has spent a lot more time in Israel than I have. He’s collecting string on a dangerous new trend in Israeli culture/politics: Welcome to the Israeli settler movement, the 2008 model: the growing priority of settling Palestinian areas…
Strange. Just after I blogged about Avraham Burg describing American Jewry as a “semi-autonomous” structure affiliated with Zionism, here is the American Jewish Committee’s report on a meeting between the AJC President, a man named Richard Sideman, and the Argentine…
Here at last is a photograph of Lev Leviev, the Israeli diamond merchant who is funding West Bank settlements. Harvey Weinstein of Miramax is having a party on December 4 at Leviev’s Madison Avenue boite. Weinstein apparently has an online…
A guy named Michal Bas Avraham emailed me who’s completing his conversion process to Judaism. I’ve said here it’s a trend. Well Michal started a Yahoo group a month ago, says he has 16 members. Urges anyone who’s interested to…
Yesterday I said that the Burg event at the New York Public Library Monday night was special for a statement that Avraham Burg, the former speaker of the Knesset, now an author, made about the relationship of American Jewry to…
Yesterday I posited that the Israel lobby is in decline because America has had it with one-sidedness, and Everyone and His Brother Is Sick of this S**t Churning up the World. Further evidence–brilliantly–from the Onion, which reports that the Middle…
Where is Robert Pape? Where is Chuck Hagel? Where is Steve Walt? Didn’t we in the Obama movement want these men’s ideas in the West Wing? Robert Dreyfuss reports on the nexus of pro-Iraq-war neolibs and neocons who are mobbing…
Richard Witty, who has a sneaker for Chabad (so do I; I had fun in the Chabad House in suburban Philly), sends me this Haaretz column by the usually reliable Bradley Burston in which he is shocked by the Mumbai…