Parallel universe. The Zionist Organization of America is threatening to boycott Coca-Cola because it bought land in Egypt for a bottling plant that was once owned by a Jewish family, the Bigios, and that was stolen from them in 1964…
The other day someone asked me what I love about Israel, and I realized later I should always begin with Uri Avnery. Now in his 80s, he is a great wise man, who gave up ambition for truth a long…
Howard Jacobson in the New Republic on the new anti-Semitism in England, criticism of Israel post-Gaza: The premise of Seven Jewish Children is a fine piece of fashionable psychobabble that understands Zionism as the collective nervous breakdown of the Jewish…
Last week Laila El-Haddad’s story of trying to get into Gaza to visit her family made its way across the Internet. El-Haddad was detained at the Egyptian border and eventually forced to return to the US without entering Gaza. Part…
Middle East envoy George Mitchell is returning to Israel this week for the first time since the election of the Netanyahu/Lieberman government. Ynet is reporting the the goal of the trip is for Mitchell to figure out if the Obama…
From Michael Massing’s guardedly-positive review of Tom Ricks’s new book, The Gamble, in the New York Review of Book– the full text of which is not on-line: It’s striking to see the extent to which Ricks, in assessing the work…
Susie Kneedler says that Huffpo is going PEP — Progressive Except for Palestine. She points to two rightwing pieces. Here’s Mort Zuckerman given space on the site to tell the untold story about Gaza, and say that Israel has no…
This mock-realist piece by David Samuels on Slate arguing for an Israeli strike on Iran is outlandish in a number of ways. Most outlandish: Samuels’s assessment that it is a “fiction” that there would be a “mass public outcry” in…
I keep braying that Gaza is a watershed moment in American political life and American Jewish life. The billboard is one of ten being put up in New Mexico by an Albuquerque-based grassroots org (the Coalition to Stop $30 Billion…