the neocons, now repositioning themselves in the militant center, for Obama. Important, smart piece by Bruce YoungSmith at TNR on Bill Kristol’s Foreign Policy Initiative, reported earlier by Jim Lobe and Daniel Luban. Jane Harman, good liberal Dem, is aboard….
Susie Kneedler writes: NPR has never mentioned Tristan Anderson that I know of. A search of its website yields nothing, but today on “Morning Edition” has already announced the “axe-wielding” militant’s killing of the Israeli settler in the West Bank….
A Palestinian killed a teenage colonist earlier today in the settlement of Bat Ayin, and Hebron colony spokesman Noan Arnon promptly issued this statement, warning Netanyahu about the peace process: “Netanyahu’s declarations regarding the continuation of the ‘peace plan’ with…
Jerry Slater, the scholar (and also “a lifelong Zionist” who once volunteered to serve in the Israeli navy), had more to say about Jim Sleeper’s piece about the efficacy of Palestinian nonviolence at TPM yesterday: What Sleeper evidently doesn’t understand…
Why pick on Israel? This may be the best answer I have gotten yet; for it speaks to my own experience as someone who shambled along in Marty Peretz’s train as he swung his pot of incense from side to…
An astonishing photo album of destruction to Palestinians’ homes in Gaza at Norm Finkelstein’s site. Many of the homes belong to people of some wealth, bringing it home a little bit more… And at Human Rights Watch, a powerful video…
I’m keeping a catalogue of answers to the Dershofoxmanitz question, Why do we single out Israel amid the sea of man’s inhumanity to man? Here’s Julian Kossoff in the Telegraph, with another good answer: the cynosure answer, Israel/Palestine is at…
Rabbi Brant Rosen is one of the heroes of this site, for his courageous condemnation of Gaza. Today he demonstrates further intellectual leadership by examining the Jewish dismissal of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions as a tool to change Israel’s policies–…
Ira Katznelson’s lecture at Columbia the other night on the expulsion of Jews from England has prompted my friend Mark, who is half-Polish, to reflect on anti-Semitism in Poland. I’ve done a fair amount of reading, although haphazardly, in this…