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…
On March 12, John Mearsheimer went on Philadelphia talk radio to discuss the Israel lobby, as reported here at the time. David Harris, executive director of the American Jewish Committee, was on next, and host Dom Giordano asked Mearsheimer to…
Never heard of this book (found out about it on JSF). And here is an excerpt of American-born Mike Marqusee’s memoir, If I Am Not for Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew, published last year: I’m not sure exactly when…
From my correspondent, Geof Gray: Maureen Dowd writes in the Times yesterday: “And it is true, of course, that the upper crust, underwhelming Anglo-Saxon leaders who allowed America’s financial markets to morph into louche casinos, George W Bush and Dick…
Jeff Blankfort writes: I just finished Seymour Hersh’s piece in the New Yorker, “Syria Calling,” and am no less sure than I was before that Israel does not want to negotiate a deal with Syria, only give the appearance of…