Truly a shocking and ultimately disgraceful piece by Ron Kampeas at JTA, saying there’s no Jewish Maureen Dowd–which is to say, a columnist who celebrates his/her ethnic roots. In the end disgraceful because it is emblematic of the general lack…
Two smart friends respond to the report that Larry Summers received millions from a hedge fund before coming back into government, as well as hundreds of thousands for speaking engagements. Friend 1: This made my jaw drop this morning; the…
I’m fascinated by the preservation of Kafka’s diaries. Kafka gave them to his Catholic girlfriend, Czech journalist Milena Jesenska, in 1921. Kafka was slowly dying of tuberculosis then. I like to think he gave them to her because he anticipated…
The AP from Jerusalem: two versions of the official Netanyahu cabinet photo were released. One is photoshopped to remove the two women in the cabinet, to placate the Orthodox objections to photographing women.
Portrait of an unidentified boy in Gaza. From an exhibit of photographs by Sameh Habeeb, a Palestinian living in Gaza, during and after the onslaught, at the Dadabase Gallery in Vancouver,with an accompanying essay on Palestine by Slavoj Zizek.
Even I find this reading a little hopeful. Where are all these anti-Gaza Jews? John Goekler, at Counterpunch: Whereas previous AIPAC moves had stirred discussion, its blind support of Israeli actions in Gaza spurred disgust… [Israel] surrendered forever what remained…
Last week we picked up Haaretz reports of a “secret deal” between Netanyahu and Lieberman to continue construction of a colony east of Jerusalem, known as E-1, that would all but bisect the West Bank. The Times of London has…
“For me, the wonder was modern Israel, the greatest wonders being Jews with guns, and not just .22s, but Uzis and M-16s and bigger guns than these, grenade-spitting guns, great barking machine guns. On a bus tour across the Galilee,…
A few weeks ago the American Jewish Committee’s executive director, David Harris, accused John Mearsheimer of running away from a debate. Mearsheimer isn’t running away from debate. On this website last weekend he welcomed a debate with Harris over Whether…