Felson reports: I am right now watching Fareed Zakaria’s show on CNN. Did you catch it? It’s good that they put Mustafa Barghouti on, but they double-teamed him with two pro-Israel guys — Yossi Halevi and Yoram Peri. Barghouti did…
The rise of Avigdor Lieberman is raising fundamental questions about Israel and Zionism in the US media that have long been ignored. While Israel expansionism in the occupied Palestinian territories has been justified over the years as a “security issue”…
I can’t get enough of watching the Hampshire video shown below, in which one student after another comes up to explain why they support divestment.The emotional and political power in these statements is incredible. “I spent my last semester in…
Jack Ross writes: In this past decade, my politics evolved from committed Green, which had so much invested in the narrative of the founding of the Republican Party on the slavery question, to jaded classical liberal, with at least a…
Last week Dana, who immigrated to the U.S. from Israel, made some important comments here re Palestinian options inside Israel. We asked her to elaborate on those thoughts, and to tell us who she is. She writes: I must agree…
This took place a month ago. Great speech at a town hall on Gaza organized by the Society for Ethical Culture in New York, from Chris Hedges, a little incantatory, what you’d expect from a minister’s kid: to attack a…
If you go to the Hampshire College students for justice in Palestine website, you will find a frankly anti-Zionist statement by Omar Barghouti in which Barghouti denounces the Zionist lobby in the U.S., saying that it intimidates intellectuals, and the…
I failed to report one important statement that Mustafa Barghouti made at Columbia the other night. He specifically addressed the new neoconservative claim (championed here by Peter Berkowitz in the Weekly Standard) that Israel can’t talk to Hamas because Iran…
Immediately after Hampshire College announced they had divested from the Israeli occupation, there was another story that Professor Alan Dershowitz had made threatening phone calls to students who had worked to pass the divestment. This seemed like an odd story…