Jonathan Chait is hung up on attacking J Street, Walt and Mearsheimer, Eric Alterman, Ezra Klein, all as “virulent,” seems like, but it’s hard to keep all the names straight amid the torrent of words here. This is not a…
The most important thing about the Al Arabiya interview is of course that it happened first, giving huge credibility to an Arab network and a fine journalist, Hisham Melhem. The news is that Obama virtually endorsed the Saudi peace initiative…
BBC radio just interviewed Nachman Shai, a Kadima candidate for Knesset (and former IDF spokesman) about George Mitchell’s visit. Shai was sweetness and light. We look forward to speaking to all our…. he searched for the word… “neighbors.” Very good,…
Rabbi Shai Gluskin gives more background on the rabbinical statement on Gaza in the Mondoweiss comments section: Thanks for all the support. And as Brant said, we are finding our voice. I’m committed to start blogging on this topic and…
A Toronto Globe and Mail report from Jerusalem says that anti-Arab feeling is rising among Israeli youth. They’re more receptive to “transfer” ideas, and chant “Death to Arabs.” The piece strikes me as an implicit argument against the idea of…
I respect the Middle East Children’s Alliance. Two days after putting out a story of a Palestinian woman forced to choose which five of her 10 children were to die at Israeli soldiers’ hands, MECA has expressed regret for doing…
Students in the UK have been taking over university buildings to protest the destruction in Gaza and now the academic boycott movement has made its way across the Atlantic. Inside Higher Ed covered the recent creation of U.S. Campaign for…
One is that BBC director-general Mark Thompson’s wife Jane is Jewish and a “fanatic” Zionist. (Wikipedia says she is Jewish, and they’re raising their kids as Catholics; hard to square with Z’ism). Second that BBC is reliant on American advertising…
As reported by the New York Times today Israel is not allowing building materials to enter Gaza to begin the reconstruction. From the article: Peter Lerner, the spokesman for the Defense Ministry’s coordination office for Gaza, said that while Israel…