As a Jew who is concerned with issues of identity construction, I went to the Arab Students Association event the other night at Columbia for selfish reasons, to see Idith Zertal, the Israeli co-author of Lords of the Land. I…
On Thursday night, the Arab Students Association of Columbia U. held a discussion of Gaza, describing it as a prison. 150 people jammed into a classroom to hear the panel, with another 60 or so turned away. Panelist Andrew Whitley,…
The Greenwich Library has overturned its miserable decision re the If Americans Knew event. The people of Greenwich apparently rose up against the Israel lobby. America is redeemed. I’m feeling somewhat sheepish about my stemwinder on the topic this a.m….
Counterpunch has a piece proving to my satisfaction–as far as I could read, before my head turned to blue cheese–that when Alan Dershowitz wrote Beyond Chutzpah, he picked up material from Joan Peters’s hateful book, From Time Immemorial– a lot…
Last night I went to a jammed event at Columbia on the human-rights crisis in Gaza and later over bad hummus heard the following theory from a friend: In ’92 George H.W. Bush ran against the Israel lobby and lost…
I’m more cynical about Obama. I think he’s cold and calculating and never commits to a thing. Great ear, great platitudes. I’m an enthusiastic supporter, don’t get me wrong. But when a friend said recently that had he been in…
The Jewish Chronicle covered the latest, international demonstrations outside Lev Leviev’s diamond boutiques in New York and London. London demonstrators included members of Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine, Stop the Wall, and Jews for Justice for Palestinians… A…
Jews for Ron Paul website. Note that Paul Gottfried is among them, a scholar of the Palestinian expulsion of ’48. They’re not all libertarians…
Some days I wonder if I’ve lost a sense of proportion about my bugaboo, the Israel lobby. Then an item like this comes along and I tell myself: Go to the rooftops! Greenwich, CT, used to be the heart of…