It is important to register the fact that when Dershowitz cried out against the Hampshire College divestment resolution, he did so by calling on donors to withdraw contributions from Hampshire. This is an old story. When Walt and Mearsheimer published…
Yesterday at Columbia, Mustafa Barghouti said that 10 Palestinian protesters in the West Bank were killed during the Gaza onslaught when Israelis fired on them during the protests that arose in virtually every village in the occupied territories. AC adds…
They’re outside the World Zionist Organization during the all-day protest. Apparently 900 Jews showed up!! These are the people that Dershowitz wants to write off as hard left Stalinists, and Marty Peretz calls kookoo. Wow. I just want to hug…
After all the denials, by Dershowitz and Gabriel Schoenfeld, it’s nice to get this from Eli Kavon, a Floridian, writing in the Jerusalem Post: MOST AMERICAN Jews, as loyal supporters as they are of Israel, would never have betrayed this…
Congressman Paul Hodes says he’ll run for the Senate seat now held by scapegrace Judd Gregg. JTA reports Hodes is Jewish, and kosher on the issue: He also spoke about his first trip to Israel, in 2007: Hodes says his…
Take a little stock. Here’s an editorial from July 2006 in the New York Sun called “Bring Back the Neocons.” The editorial argues that they had the best ideas for the Middle East. Later that year the Bush doctrine was…
Yesterday the Hampshire College administration was trying to distance itself from the monumental action the school’s Board of Trustees took in divesting from the Israeli occupation. Today Hampshire students have responded. From the SJP statement: Divestment from Apartheid South Africa…
A few points I left out of my report on Mustafa Barghouti of last night in my haste to report: He was hosted by the Arab Students Association of Columbia University’s school of international affairs. The space was a 15th…
Yesterday the story leaked that Alan Dershowitz was calling members of Hampshire Students for Justice in Palestine and threatening to organize an international boycott of the school following its decision to divest from the Israeli occupation. Dershowitz has clarified his…