“Shoot and cry” used to just be an Israeli cliche about the guilt soldiers felt after committing unspeakable acts while serving the Israeli occupation. Now it appears to have become official military doctrine. The New York Times has picked up…
A few impressions of being in the company of the settler movement last night in New York: The meeting’s in the basement of a rich stone synagogue. The crowd aren’t rich people, they’re cause people, rough around the edges, a…
Just when Israel’s image is tanking, who does Harvard’s “Program on Negotiation” have in for its brown-bag lunch next week: Daniel Taub, to talk about “Lessons in Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations.” Taub is a legal adviser in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign…
Exclusive report from Mondoweiss: In a speech at a New York synagogue Wednesday night, Nadia Matar, a leader of the Israeli settlers’ group “Women in Green,” called for the assassination of Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, as…
Three days after carrying Stanley Fish’s argument against the academic boycott of Israel, the Times may have unwittingly offered the best argument for the cultural boycott. Ethan Bronner’s front page article “After Gaza, Israel Grapples With Crisis of Isolation” outlines…
(Graffiti left by Israeli soldiers in a house in Al-Zeytoun from the recent war in Gaza. Photo: Rose Mishaan) Ha’aretz continues to share testimonies of Israeli soldiers from the war in Gaza: Another squad leader from the same brigade told…
Today Ha’aretz has begun reporting on a meeting of Israeli soldiers who fought in Gaza and are now telling their stories. Amos Harel notes that the stories “[paint] a grim picture of civilian deaths, deliberate destruction of Palestinian property and…
Yesterday I read Michael Tomasky’s review in New York Review of Books (no link yet) of Robert Kaiser’s book on the corruption of lobbyists. Tomasky is justly disturbed about the health-care lobby’s ability to destroy Obama’s work on health care…
Marc Sapir is a doctor in Berkeley. He lately sent out this email to friends (and Jeff Blankfort got Sapir’s permission to pass it along, edited). It bears on the fact that the traditional left is “confounded” by the Israel/Palestine…