Lanny Davis on Huffpo this morning, saying Netanyahu is a man of peace. I’ll update when I get around to reading it. Have to steel myself.
Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai responding to George Mitchell’s current visit to Israel: The preferable course of diplomatic action at this time is two economies for two peoples and not two states for two peoples. The American emissary also knows…
Next week the Tribeca Film Festival will be premiering a film by Yoav Shamir called “Defamation” that is about anti-Semitism and the Anti-Defamation League. The latest Forward suggests that Shamir takes my line: that anti-Semitism is not an important factor…
A few weeks ago, Michelle Goldberg, who has made her career in good measure by criticizing the Christian right, said that if you criticize Israel, you sacrifice your journalistic career. An important point, and one I agree with based on…
The other night I was talking with a Muslim friend at an elite university, and he said that there was an anti-semitic tinge to some of the statements he hears from friends about the Israel lobby. I asked him to…
By James North Several hundred people packed into the Cowin Auditorium at Columbia’s Teachers College last night, and nearly all of them stayed more than 2 hours for an intriguing debate about what is actually happening in Darfur and what…
Israel’s international standing may be plummeting due to its new government, but it would appear to remain unbowed. Today the AP is reporting that Israel is “very unlikely” to cooperate with a UN war crimes probe into the war in…
Anees writes from Jerusalem (where alas, he is a second-class citizen): I usually avoid reading Thomas Friedman, but I was intrigued by the title, “In the Age of Pirates”. He does not specifically say it, but what he writes can…
The chief purpose of this website rightnow is to defenestrate the piece of propaganda that Mort Zuckerman published on the supine Huffington Post yesterday with the headline, “The Story You Aren’t Hearing About Israel.” Below are 5 critiques of the…