One of the disgraces of the Chas Freeman case is that his enemies dare not speak their true agenda. As Steve Walt has pointed out, they are Israel-firsters; their litmus test is No pressure on Israel. Are they plain about…
Why is accused spy Steve Rosen leading the charge against Chas Freeman, Obama’s pick for the National Intelligence Council? Here’s a great piece in the New Jersey Jewish News yesterday by Douglas Bloomfield, a former AIPAC staffer, on what’s at…
Steve Rosen, the former AIPAC operative who is charged with being a spy for Israel, is pressuring the Israel Policy Forum to get rid of its policy analyst MJ Rosenberg because Rosenberg is standing up for a good man, Chas…
The Jewish political leadership in the U.S. grows ever more conservative, so as to protect Israel from any criticism. From the Jerusalem Post: [M]ore important, he [an American Jewish leadership official, anonymous] maintained, was that US President Barack Obama was…
Paul Woodward at War in Context has a good rundown of all the Chas Freeman attacks and of Freeman’s defenders too. It is a great battle–a test of the power of the Israel lobby. The Saudi Arabia money is a…
(Banner from the Israel Beytenu website) No, it’s not official yet, but what seemed like an odd joke just a week and half ago, is looking more and more like a done deal. Ha’aretz reports that Avigdor “minorities are the…
A shocking story. 1. Emily McNeill graduates from Ithaca College last year and visits the West Bank with a Christian Peacemaker team. She writes a fine, earnest piece for the college’s official magazine about Israeli settler violence against Palestinians. Unchecked…
Ron Kampeas at the JTA thinks so. Kerry is back in DC after seeing the devastation in Gaza first hand. Now he’s talking about it and preparing policy recommendations for Obama. Kampeas refers to Kerry as “a stalking horse” in…
Your Israel lobby tax dollars at work. Greg Sargent reports that Chuck Schumer is spending political capital to block Freeman… This comes as the White House is signaling that they may not be willing to go to bat for Freeman….