Activist Adam Horowitz visited Israel/Palestine last month. He reports: One of the most interesting conversations I had on my recent trip was with Ali Haider, co-director with the Palestinian/Jewish organization Sikkuy in Haifa. He was very interested in talking about…
Jeffrey Blankfort says I’m dreaming when I predict a fall for the lobby: I envy your optimism but you are headed for big disappointments. The Cuban Lobby couldn’t hold a candle to that of the Zionists, even when it was…
A year back Noam Chomsky wrote about Samantha Power. She’d just reviewed a book of his, and here he talks about her as being an establishment type. Chomsky’s so smart, it’s really worth looking at. Though I don’t share his…
Here’s an old trope of mine that I haven’t wheeled out for a while: the Elian Gonzalez moment for the Israel lobby. Today’s Christian letter to Obama saying this conflict has gone on too long made me pull the old…
I keep meaning to get to this note, on my desk. A week or so back I was watching CSpan, and young adult book author Marc Aronson talking about his book on race, and how we all have racism in…
Want to cry? Read this letter to Obama from a broad group of Christian groups declaring that the conflict in Israel/Palestine has gone on too long, caused untold suffering to two peoples, and “provided a rallying cry to extremists.” So:…
Last night I went to the New York Public Library for a conversation between Avraham Burg, a former speaker of the Israeli Knesset whose new and often-stirring book is The Holocaust Is Over; We Must Rise From Its Ashes, and…
Richard Cohen is about as good as we get for a mainstream columnist these days, and he has a good column attacking the Eric Holder nod for Attorney General. All because Holder approved the Marc Rich pardon. The big issue,…
It’s becoming a cliche to liken Obama to Lincoln. I do it myself. Today on the Brian Lehrer show on public radio in New York, Adam Gopnik did it. Well I’ve been reading Lincoln, and also reading Yale scholar David…