Tonight was such an important night in American journalism that I want to add a little to what Adam says above. Bob Simon’s report was great old 60 Minutes journalism. It was good guys and bad guys. It was rage…
English celebrities are putting pressure on BBC to air the emergency appeal for aid to Gaza. Here is the great politician Tony Benn refusing to be polite on BBC and savaging the network for its failure to respond with compassion…
In their refusal to see what the slaughter of hundreds of Arab civilians has revealed about the foreign country they love, Commentary’s Noah Pollak and Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg have begun calling John Mearsheimer “Sheikh Hassan Mearsheimer.” This kind of namecalling…
In the wake of the Gaza brutalism, Seyla Benhabib, a Yale scholar of Jewish-Sephardic-Turkish extraction, has a dream of a confederation of Israel and Palestine in one state, with people living where they like. Chomsky is for something like this…
AC writes: And they ask, with unctuous curiosity, where is the Palestinian Gandhi? From a demonstration on Dec. 28th in Ni’lin, where “Israeli forces shot 20 year old Mohammed Khawaje in the forehead with live ammunition as he was demonstrating”:…
My impatience with Ethan Bronner’s handwringing is contained in this superb Wall Street Journal historical investigation of how Israel helped spawn Hamas. Hamas is “Israel’s creation,” a former Israeli official laments. The WSJ is trying to expand American knowledge of…
Reuters: The International Criminal Court in The Hague has no jurisdiction to investigate in the Gaza Strip, as it is not a state.
Jack Ross writes: Last night my friend Richard and I watched my DVD of Arguing The World, which I had not watched in almost two years. It has been on the basis of my knowledge of neoconservatism, which I was…
Today I put Adam Horowitz’s email next to mine in the About page so readers can contact him too. Adam and I are trying to make a go of this site together. We’re going to professionalize the site: at some…