at the University of Rochester. Initiated by the Students for a Democratic Society. I’m vaguely suspicious on sectarian grounds (new wine in old bottle) but they declare “victory” after a nine hour occupation. And they’re linked to other occupations.
One thing I have always enjoyed about winter-camping is that I get to hang out with the Other, in my case privileged gentiles. When I was a kid, people from that tribe ran American institutions and my family was highly…
Bernard Avishai describes his blog as being “responses mainly to rash opinions about Israel and its conflicts,” but the sober prof is becoming more and more despairing (and brave) about the future of Israel. His latest piece studies Nazi history…
In a day or so we’re going to publish a splendid piece by Mohammad of Vancouver disputing James Petras’s argument that Obama is going to attack Iran. Part of Mohammad’s critique is a long meditation on the character of the…
Barbara Lubin of the Middle East Children’s Alliance has sent out an email that in essence retracts the Sophie’s Choice story that she, and I, passed along from Gaza 2 weeks ago: While I was away I told a story…
A friend writes: I’m not exactly sure what Jeffrey Goldberg meant here, of the Zionist hero Josef Trumpeldor: “the one-armed Russian army veteran who made a valiant last stand at the Alamo Tel Hai in the Upper Galilee,” with “the…
in the Jerusalem Post saying that “some Jews” are angered by Samantha Power’s appointment to the National Security Council. One of these angry Jews won’t let the JPost use his name, afraid he’ll lose access. I guess he’s not that…
Two amazing quotes from this Indypendent piece on “Jewish rebels” against Zionism: “For people who embrace a progressive Jewish vision, Israel is against everything we believe in,” [Judy] Rebick [professor of labor studies at Ryerson University in Canada] said… And,…
The double standard of Israeli militarism will soon literally be on display at a museum dedicated to the history of the central Israeli city Hod Hasharon. Evidently, museum curators recently found “an arms cache dating back to the British Mandate…