Writes Mohammad of Vancouver: A Fundamental Fear: Eurocentrism and the Emergence of Islamism, by Bobby Sayyid. There is this much of this free online. I cannot stress how important it is to read this book, to pass it on to…
Phil Weiss: Many of us have been excited by the accounts by pseudonymous F.E. Felson on this site, describing the power of the Israel lobby in New Jersey local politics and Congress. Felson is an accomplished journalist who woke up…
A reader responds to an earlier post: Did you see the Harvard Law School debate between Duncan Kennedy and Noah Feldman on Israel/Palestine? I didn’t see the entire debate but Feldman objected to Kennedy’s harsh critique and did the kind…
Jeff Blankfort writes: I finally got to to San Francisco last week and went to see Waltz with Bashir. It was as I expected, designed to make the Israeli soldiers appear as victims and use the massacre at Sabra and…
I was sickened by the Baltimore-Pittsburgh game two weeks ago, which ended not in athletic theatrics, but a 15-minute vigil on the field for Baltimore’s Willis McGahee, who’d been left crumpled by a helmet-to-helmet hit, a vigil followed in the…
One of the beautiful things about the new debate over Israel/Palestine is how it has sorted out the weak from the strong; and courageous scholars and journalists have emerged who have educated themselves about the issues and are not taking…
we pay for the fuel too. $280 million last year. And 66 gallons per Israeli citizen between ’04-’07. (Thanks to Peter Voskamp).
Richard Silverstein and Jerry Haber are appealing for help to put an American Jewish No! letter in the Hebrew press in Israel. Ira Glunts, an Israeli-American, writes: I think that putting the ad in the Hebrew language version of Ha’aretz…
Jeff Blankfort writes: I wouldn’t pay much if any attention to the Al-Quds poll. It is a Fatah [PA] organ that is not known for telling inconvenient truths. It had an English edition until sometime 1993 when the editor, amazingly,…