This is from the University of Plymouth student blog in England. They say there are 30+ “occupied universities” in the UK. AFter 4 days of occupation, Plymouth students say the university has agreed on Palestinian scholarship, aid to Gaza, and…
Just saw “Slumdog Millionaire.” Loved it. Very Dickensian. One comment: It interests me that the movie’s hero, Jamal Malik, is a Muslim. And so the world and the Motion Picture academy are celebrating a Muslim Oliver Twist. That’s helpful. And…
Yesterday I met two Arab intellectuals, Mustapha Tlili and Ambassador Clovis Maksoud, during a taping for Press TV and was struck afresh by how upset the Arab world is over Gaza. I don’t think this is fully understood in the…
Here’s a link to an American Jewish Committee site where Doug Lieb’s article attacking Jerry Slater’s piece in Tikkun has been posted. Lieb’s article is also published in the latest issue of Tikkun, which thereby takes on the old Commentary…
I just got my March issue of Commentary. It’s not online yet. It includes a long article by Yiddishist Ruth Wisse called “Now, About That ‘Proportionality'” which of course says that Israel was right to destroy Gaza. There is something…
The battle is joined. The other side is gearing up. Here is a fabulous post by MJ Rosenberg saying that the Weekly Standard and other usual suspects want to hold McCarthy-like hearings about Chas Freeman. Meantime, something I somewhat-apprehended last…
Here’s why I believe in the Israel lobby theory of American Middle East policy. Here is Anne Bayefsky in Forbes the other day urging the Obama administration not to “sacrifice” Israel to the U.N.’s Durban conference. (Advice taken.) Bayefsky is…
Here is the forthcoming Tikkun magazine. The articles are not yet on-line. But isn’t this curious. Here is what looks to be a great piece on Gaza by a meticulous moral scholar, Jerry Slater: A Perfect Moral Catastrophe: Just War…
Regarding David Makovsky’s congressional testimony in which he presumed to speak for Palestinian interests, I missed the crucial link! Here it is. And here is the story: In 2004 Makovsky, the goodnatured scholar who works for the Israel lobby WINEP–and…