We have already spilled enough pixels on this site talking about the incoming Israeli government. Netanyahu will be the Prime Minster, Avigdor Lieberman will be Foreign Minister, and Ehud Barak has weaseled his way into remaining Defense Minister. This is…
in this snaky manner an hour ago or so: This article supersedes an article published earlier this week on Norway which contained inaccuracies, and has been withdrawn. David Horovitz, where is the apology? And just what was inaccurate?
Bruce Wolman of Bethesda, MD, lived in Norway for more than 20 years. He reads the Norwegian press in Norwegian and offers the following exclusive report: According to NTB, the Norwegian wire service, Norway’s Finance Minister and Socialist Left party…
Bruce Wolman writes: Incoming Israeli P.M. Bibi Netanyahu tells Jeffrey Goldberg: “Iran is a composite leadership, but in that composite leadership there are elements of wide-eyed fanaticism that do not exist right now in any other would-be nuclear power in…
Thanks to reader Jim Harb for alerting us to this interesting imaginary map. It is one way of showing the fragmentation of the West under Israeli occupation – an archipelago of disconnected islands. It’s from the website Strange Maps, which…
Bruce Wolman writes: An American gentile, Larry Franklin, goes to prison. But, according to Haaretz, his Israeli intelligence counter-party in crime (Uzi Arad, security aide to Netanyahu) will get a visa so as to visit the Obama administration. If this…
There’s a long piece on J Street by Noah Pollak in the forthcoming Commentary. I just read it. It’s a smart piece. Its essence is the claim that Jews are on the neocons’ side, and just look at Gaza. Barney…
Columbia had its semi-annual University Lecture last night: history professor Ira Katznelson’s thoughts on tolerance and liberalism, using the example of the history of Jews in England, from their expulsion in the 1200s to their readmission in the 1650s to…
Antony Loewenstein, the Australian author, reports on the recent visit down under of Jeff Halper: Jeff Halper, Israeli/American peace activist, retired anthropologist and head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), writes in his recent book, An Israeli in…
Jack Ross sends this “extremely silly item.”
Susie Kneedler writes: Keith Olbermann and Newsweek’s Richard Wolffe seem to have discovered that they can (barely) discuss Israel through a left-wing lens by (rightly) linking Cheney to Netanyahu and then discussing Obama’s efforts to broker Israeli-Syria negotiations. Key insights…
The international community is now arguing over Israeli atrocities in Gaza. Were they an aberration? Are not the Israelis a moral fighting force? Etc. Etc. The following report confirms that the atrocities were not an aberration; they sprang from a…
“Anti-Semitism–the Ugliest Backlash in Our Lifetime.” Well not Abe Foxman’s lifetime.
The American Conservative has gone webby. I mean, they were on the web before, of course, but they just got redesigned and it feels webby. Also, there’s a podcast on there of me and Scott McConnell talking. McConnell wouldn’t put…
We tend to focus on the most dramatic aspects of Israel’s efforts to force Palestinians out of Jerusalem and “judaize” the city, such as the massive home demolitions in Silwan or the plans for Israeli settlements in E-1. But the…
Yes I just violated my anti-ethnocentric Yiddish policy in that headline. Apologies to everyone. Rosten: rigmarole. Akiva Eldar in Haaretz says that Obama will be basing his Israel/Palestine policy on the report by the 10 realist luminaries who say that…
From the Jerusalem Post: “In addition to the problems and difficulties arising from the global economic crisis, 21 percent of [90] local exporters report that they are facing problems in selling Israeli goods because of an anti-Israel boycott, mainly from…
From the JTA report on the Zionist Organization of America’s lunch on Capitol Hill last week. Best moments belong to Shelley Berkley. Emphasis mine: Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV) joked that she always brings [ZOA President] Mort Klein her ZOA membership…
The second day of the One State for Palestine/Israel: A Country for All Its Citizens? conference had a much more ominous tone than Day 1. It focused on the long road to building a one state solution – from the…
Where do you get this kind of stuff? Oh, I get it in Haaretz– and my friend Zellnik passes it to me. The noblest newspaper in the world struggles against Jim Crow while the New York Times is silent. Haaretz…
Phil posted an interesting interview with non-Zionist Israeli MK Dov Khenin from the Hadash Party while I was attending the One State for Palestine/Israel: A Country for All Its Citizens? conference in Boston. He makes two different comments about the…
The Guardian on all the heat that Roger Cohen is getting for being open-minded about Iran: Cohen said he was stunned by the vehemence of the response, an impression exacerbated when he visited exiled Iranian Jews in California and was…
The following report was sent to us by a long time U.S.-based activist for a just peace in Israel/Palestine posting under the name Rie Graham. It is in response to a discussion between Naomi Klein and Rabbi Arthur Waskow on…
A lot of the life of this website is a response to a challenge that Tony Judt issued two years ago: “Why is the American Jewish community so determined to convince itself that we are living in 1938? Why does…
Tony Kushner and Alisa Solomon begin their piece on “Seven Jewish Children” in the Nation the way all such pieces should begin, reciting the terrible numbers from the Gaza slaughter. Then: There are passages, particularly in an ugly monologue near…