Just Foreign Policy, a realist/prog group, headed by former Maine congressman Tom Andrews, is circulating a petition that calls on Obama to have “new faces” in his team negotiating Israel/Palestine. My friend Ira Glunts sees this as the anti-Dennis Ross…
I said I met Aaron Levitt last night when he was protesting the Hebron settlers in Manhattan. He got in arguments with a lot of them. It was an amazing thing to watch. Because Levitt knows his Orthodox Judaism, having…
In speculating last night on the racial origin of Ashkenazi Jews, a friend passed along to me this site maintained by Kevin Alan Brook, Khazaria.com, dealing with the controversy over the origins of European Jewry. Medieval Kingdom of Khazaria, 652-1016…
Aaron Levitt was one of the demonstrators outside the Marriott last night as the settlers of Hebron held a big fundraiser inside. Levitt says in a press release on the event: Aaron Levitt, an activist with Jews Against the Occupation-NYC…
The hopeful analysis of Rahm Emanuel as an Americans for Peace Now kinda guy that I quoted at length last week had an author: Lara Friedman, of Americans for Peace Now. Friedman did considerable digging and synthesis to produce that…
The Forward justly recognizes Matt Brooks of the Republican Jewish Coalition as one of the 50 most important Jews in America, but its piece gives a kind of benediction to the contumely and smears he heaped on Barack Obama, as…
John Mearsheimer and Steve Walt write: We think that the discussion on your blog about the recent poll commissioned by the Israel Project misses a critical issue. The fact that 57 percent of the respondents “support” or “strongly support” Israel,…
My friend Dave came over last night and we watched some of the Sunday night football game and I opened a pomegranate. I ate my half carefully, but neither of us had a plate. My wife came out from her…
In my unending lovefest for Obama, I missed this beautifully-righteous letter to Obama from Ralph Nader, on the eve of the election, saying Obama is in the pocket of Israel-lobby hardliners when it comes to prospects for a two-state solution….