LRB has a powerful collection of contributors condemning the slaughter. Excerpts: Yitzhak Laor: Israel is engaged in a long war of annihilation against Palestinian society. The objective is to destroy the Palestinian nation and drive it back into pre-modern groupings…
Richard Silverstein and Jerry Haber have started a petition seeking American Jews who are “shocked and appalled” by the Gaza slaughter (which gets props from JTA on religious grounds). Silverstein asks: Killing Said Siam, interior minister in the Hamas government??…
Artist Mike Marcus, who lives in London: I was brought up by militant Zionists and although I rejected their teachings at an early age, I still didn’t know the real history of the region. For some reason I couldn’t just…
Mohammad writes from Vancouver: I cried all the way in the bus to school. I cried all the way in a lecture on Matisse by Serge Guilbaut, scholar of modernism. I cried while I paid for my Norman Finklestein tickets…
This is really the only argument anyone needs. A realist one. The onslaught is raising Hamas’s Q-rating in Cairo: But in interviews in Cairo with wounded supporters of the Islamist militia, considered a terrorist organization by Israel and the United…
Here are the reasons to do it: –AIPAC’s annual policy conference is a feast of rightwing Zionist ideas, and many interesting Jewish ideas too. Inviting Walt and Mearsheimer, scholars of American Jewish history, would make it even more of a…
lives and reflect the thought that Mohammad sends me from Canada: Words cannot describe how I feel today for the civilians in Gaza. They should call today the Black Thursday. Peace From these moments when we honor Gazan humanity, we…
a startling piece of reporting by Charles Levinson in the Wall Street Journal–a hideous bookend to Max Blumenthal’s bravura reporting for alternet. How long a chapter is this in the history of my tribe? When do we get to turn…
What Bernie Madoff has done for the financial reservoirs of the Modern Orthodox community of Manhattan, the Israel-defenders are doing to genuine concerns about antisemitism, watering them down hopelessly. A friend writes: I’m struck by how younger bloggers like Matt…