The alternative Israel lobby, J Street, is one year old today. It is celebrating its birthday with a fundraising drive to hire two more staffers and it says it has 100,000 members. It is pretty impressive. J Street’s rise is…
I think we are in the beginning of an American Jewish backlash against Israel. The causes of this anger are obvious: Gaza and Avigdor Lieberman are resonating through a Jewish community that voted for Barack Hussein Obama, 4 to 1….
From the Angry Arab, As’ad AbuKhalil: A decent American reader wrote me expressing his “resentment and disapproval” toward the my decision to post a hate mail that I have received from an American reader. I should say clearly that most…
As the Obama administration begins its engagement with the Netanyahu/Lieberman government, The Economist states the obvious – the new Israeli government is not an ally in Obama’s vision for the Middle East. The magazine points out that Israel’s ongoing colonization…
Writes a friend: Mort Zuckerman, publisher of the Daily News and editor of U.S. News, goes on to Huffington Post to complain about media bias against Israel: “The Story You Aren’t Hearing About Israel.” But the incident he leads with…
Oh me of little influence– I saw the significance of Trita Parsi’s book Treacherous Alliance 18 months ago. Well Laura Rozen at Foreign Policy says that the book’s sales have spiked lately because of Roger Cohen’s superb endorsement in the…
By James North “Orientalism” is much more than just prejudice against Arabs and Muslims. Edward Said, who did more than anyone to explore the ideology, explained that Orientalism can include a genuine interest in the languages and (ancient) history of…
Last year my friend Mark and I unmasked the Asia Times columnist “Spengler” as a NY currencies expert named David P. Goldman. A LaRouchie-cum-neocon, Goldman used various masks to write about religious issues. We unmasked him for a simple reason:…
A few weeks back, Dana Goldstein of The American Prospect overcame her reserve about writing about Israel/Palestine because Gaza was so appalling to her; and she called on Jews to raise their voices. Now she’s back. Today in The American…