The Boston Globe has a little piece following up the bogus controversy started by Jonathan Chait when he wrote that Steve Walt did not hurt his career by writing, The Israel Lobby. Chait is wrong, and either foolishly misleading, or…
Here’s something grotesque. Last week the physician Mustafa Barghouti visited New York and talked about the inequity in water usage in Israel/Palestine on public radio: “We the Palestinians of the West Bank can only use up to 50 cubic meters…
Scott McConnell writes: In Avi Shlaim’s The Iron Wall, I came across this account of Begin’s autonomy plan, presented to Carter and his aides on Dec. ’77. Begin of course wanted to deflect proposals from the US and Egypt for…
One of the only actors we have who has political guts, George Clooney, is reported to be dating the lovely and talented Pakistani writer Fatima Bhutto. Two years ago Bhutto wrote, in the wake of the Lebanon war launched by…
causes the Times critic to squirm, and supply the usual sober context. Context, context!! We all need more context! Context for Bush! Context for the Iraq war! Context for the Soviet Union and the Vietnam war! Context for the neocons…
Jack Ross, who is writing a book about anti-Zionist rabbis, writes re the post on Rabbi Eric Yoffie’s religious nationalism: While I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment you express, I feel that once again you miss an important point. That…
The AP’s Karin Laub has picked up that expanded settlement news, first published in Haaretz, and done wonderful reporting on it. Laub says the land belongs to a Palestinian plumber. The plans–and here the AP echoes this site–are a direct…
Felson writes: Harvey Araton used his New York Times sports column today to document the plight of Shahar Peer, an Israeli tennis player who was denied a visa by the United Arab Emirates that would have allowed her to compete…
One of the signal events of the Gaza slaughter in the U.S. was the brave statement by “J Street” against the disproportionate violence, and the subsequent attack on J Street by Rabbi Eric Yoffie, head of the Union for Reform…