Never saw this. An Israeli basketball team had to flee the floor in Turkey 2 weeks ago because of the crowd’s Gaza rage.
A fine piece on Slate by Andres Martinez about the unsavory company the Times is giving itself by taking Mexican mogul Carlos Slim Helu’s $250 million. Key excerpt: the scale of Slim’s fortune, and the extent to which it was…
“Reevaluate Aid to Israel” is this resolution posed on Obama’s citizen-briefing website, which promises to pass along the popular ideas to the President. There are 717 responses to the resolution, and most seem to agree. Wow. Only marijuana reform seems…
Jordanian doctors returning from Gaza held a press conference in Amman to assert that 90 percent of the wounds they treated were caused by white phosphorus. Here are photos from the International Solidarity Movement that appear to confirm the use…
Obama’s post-tribalism is opening doors all over Jewish life for ecstatic idealism rather than the murderous logic of Israeli expansion. And suddenly this website is part of a new wave in Jewish life! The eight Jews affiliated with the International…
When the poet Randall Jarrell committed suicide in 1965 by stepping in front of a car, the poet Robert Lowell (as I recall anyway) said, “Think of the poor driver.” I thought about this poetical comment today when my friend…
What follows is an email sent out to Harvard Law School this afternoon. Hauser’s fifth floor is where Alan Dershowitz has his office. Are you OK Dersh? Baby we need you. Critics of Israel would be nowhere without you describing…
The news the Obama will appoint George Mitchell as Middle East envoy on the first day of his administration has been widely celebrated. One particularly impressive endorsement came from Mark Perry, co-director of the organization Conflicts Forum: Barack Obama has…