A smart friend writes: Ethan Bronner of the Times writes a front-page piece on Avigdor Lieberman (“A Hard-Liner Gains Ground in Israel”) without mentioning racism or discrimination. No mention of the Haaretz report that he was a member of outlawed,…
Eric Breindel, a charismatic neoconservative of considerable influence as the editorial page editor of the New York Post, died in 1998 at age 42. His funeral at the Park Avenue Synagogue was mobbed by socialites and pols alike. Rudy Giuliani,…
Writer Jean-Moise Braitberg has written a letter to Israeli president Shimon Peres demanding that his grandfather’s name be removed from Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. The letter is reported to have been printed first in Le Monde, 10…
A further sign of Israel’s isolation. Compelling video of a basketball game in Barcelona on Thursday, featuring a Tel Aviv team, where many Palestinian supporters rushed the court with flags, disrupting the game. Watch the cheerleaders run for the exits……
It usually doesn’t pay in the media to be a sharp critic of Israel. But sometimes it does. The photographer AnomalousNYC, who has a global following on Flickr for his photographs and alterations of photos and accompanying writings, has told…
From the New York-based National Lawyers’ Guild press release of three days ago: The seven delegates also witnessed the remains of the entire residential neighborhood of Izbit Abed Rabbo. Resident Khaled Abed Rabbo told delegates Huwaida Arraf and Radhika Sainath…
Reuters is reporting that Philip Rizk, a 26-year-old German activist and blogger who studies at the American University in Cairo, has been arrested in Egypt. Here’s Rizk’s blog: TabulaGaza. Rizk was apparently involved in this march of protest of the…
Andrew Sullivan is somewhat recanting his accusation of several days ago against the neocons as being Israel-centric by explaining all the good things that neocons do beside turn Arab societies into charnel houses. I sense a lot of emails. Sullivan’s…