Bernard Avishai has been doing great work recently. Here he contemplates the true tragic import of the likely new government, and hints at the inevitable liberal response to it (one state, baby). Notice Avishai’s generosity: Israelis pride themselves on technological…
Here’s Avigdor Lieberman’s stirring ad on Israeli TV, a song sung by (the wonderful but scary) Russian Aleksandr Rosenbaum, in Russian, over Holocaust imagery and Jerusalem footage. Watch it to the end. Someone who knows a little Russki tells me…
On C-Span, I just caught a portion of Trinity Professor Samuel Kassow’s recent lecture at the Tenement Museum in New York on the Warsaw ghetto archives that were somehow preserved through the Holocaust. Kassow has written a book called, Who…
without the release of Gilad Shalit. So one Jewish life is always worth hundreds of Palestinian lives. (Thanks to Jeff Blankfort)
The Des Moines Register profiles a non-Zionist: [Jamie] Woodson’s story is the political awakening of a left-leaning liberal. She followed Northern Ireland politics growing up, then South African politics while at Drake University. It wasn’t until 2004 that she first…
Late last night I wrote about Jim Lobe’s exchange with Richard Perle over Perle’s evasion of neoconservative responsibility for the Iraq war. Well, here is Lobe’s excellent blogpost on Perle’s snakiness, from a month back. It includes citations of two…
I love the idea that a Park Slope, Brooklyn, cooperative food market might end up boycotting persimmons, peppers and mushrooms that it buys from Israel. The idea has created quite a storm, the latest front in the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions…
Lincoln’s a guide because in 1854 he revived his political career over a moral question, slavery, and transformed the country. At a time when the mainstream political parties were accommodating slavery, Lincoln declared that slavery was evil and he wanted…
You knew it was coming. The concerted push to put a smiley face on the incoming far right Israeli government has begun on the front page of The New York Times. Ethan Bronner begins his story “Netanyahu, Once Hawkish, Now…