Anees writes from Jerusalem: A 12 Jan TV interview with Al-Quds University President Sari Nusseibeh. “It’s a crime against humanity…I’ve been so depressed… I stay away from talks with Israeli friends and colleagues.” Negotiating along the same tracks of the…
in this gonzo piece about the rising antisemitism by Claudia Rosett. Also there’s this odd metaphor: There are many spokes in the anti-Semitic web now being re-woven around the globe, from Saudi Arabia to the Palestinian schools and media that…
Sky Redoubt translates this heartbreaking passage from Haaretz Hebrew edition (more or less literal, abridged): Galit Popok [female] was married to Rama Kadara, a Palestinian from Gaza, and lived with him and their 6 children in Natzrat Elit [a mostly…
My friend Mohammad in Vancouver, who is from Iran, told me he was wearing his Star of David when he went to Norman Finkelstein’s talk last night and asked Finkelstein some hard questions. I asked Mo why he wears the…
Warning to the Israel lobby. It’s over. The whole thing is over. Gaza was a giant mistake. The 60 years of pulling the wool over Americans’ eyes and saying it’s equitable to the indigenous population and it makes sense when…
Today there was a great talk at Harvard’s Belfer Center on the Afghan resistance to the Soviet Union invasion in the 80s. The speaker was the rising Norwegian scholar Thomas Hegghammer. Promo: In the 1980s, thousands of Arabs volunteered to…
This counts as progress. Michael Kimmelman in the Times: BERGEN-BELSEN, Germany — Habbo Knoch, who runs the new Bergen-Belsen Memorial at the former concentration camp, invited various scholars and museum directors to a four-day conference here last week called “Witnessing:…
I wonder how the pointlessness of the war (Times of London link to the finger-pointing beginning in Israel) fits into Michael Walzer’s just war theory? And what does its pointlessness do for advocates Tom Friedman and Jeffrey Goldberg, who trumpeted…
I got this news release from the Council on American-Islamic Relations today, citing news reports: AUDIO: ISRAELI SOLDIERS SHOT PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS IN COLD BLOOD Quil Lawrence, The World, PRI, 1/21/09 Two weeks ago Khaled Abed Drabo was trapped inside his…