As was true for me during the war in Gaza, Twitter is once again distinguishing itself as a pretty impressive news ticker. I’ve been using it follow the Jane Harman scandal and am amazed by how quickly it moves along….
The great pleasure of the Harman-Saban story is that it suggests (I know, I’m repeating myself) that MSM journalists are finally getting on the Israel lobby story. Once you start pulling this out from under the carpet, who knows where…
The great pleasure of the Harman-Saban story is that it suggests (I know, I’m repeating myself) that MSM journalists are finally getting on the Israel lobby story. Once you start pulling this out from under the carpet, who knows where…
Marcy Winograd, a member of Progressive Democrats of America, challenged Jane Harman in the 2006 Democratic primary in California’s 36th congressional district. Winograd made the decision to run against Harman after watching her defend the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program…
This morning I read a Kafka letter from 1923, a year before he died, in which he apologized to his good friend Oskar Baum for missing his son’s bar mitzvah because he did not realize it was on a Saturday….
Seems like there might be a few things to talk about. This video isn’t new, but I just saw it on Pulse and found it absolutely shocking: And from just the past two days: Jerusalem Post: PM reiterates need for…
A few months back I caught Mark Cohen’s amazing lecture on anti-Semitism in Muslim societies at the Jewish Theological Seminary. (Can’t get a link right now, can’t get on the site). It looks like he’s reprising the lecture next Tuesday…
Jeffrey Goldberg notions that CQ’s Jeff Stein should be prosecuted, along with his source, for publishing NSA material–that is if we adopt the Justice Department standard under which Steve Rosen and Ken Weissman are being prosecuted, for sharing secret material…
Call it racism, call it Israeli hospitality. A disgraceful report from the World Bank, showing that Israel is violating its agreements with the Palestinian Authority on fair share of water use, taking 50 percent more than it’s authorized to do….