I wish this stuff would show up in the American Jewish press! Give us ten years, huh? Amaya Galili has a piece in Hebrew on the spiritual urgency of commemorating the Nakba, on Yedioth Aharonoth. Charles Kamen has made a…
Egyptian sociologist and human-rights activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim, who is teaching in the U.S. rather than doing jail time in Egypt, spoke at Harvard, where he is a visiting fellow, the other day. I’m told: Saad said that the Israel…
Gershon Baskin of Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information, in the JPost: There is almost nothing in Israeli and Palestinian text books that teaches the students something objective or positive about the people they are in conflict with and with…
The killing of a protester last week at Bil’in in the West Bank has apparently had this effect: Israel has come up with a new route for its wall through the village in an effort to comply with several High…
The killing of a protester last week at Bil’in in the West Bank has apparently had this effect: Israel has come up with a new route for its wall through the village in an effort to comply with several High…
Bernard-Henri Levy on Huffington Post: For the honor and the salvation of those still in Rwanda and Darfur, in solidarity with the homosexuals hanged in Tehran or imprisoned in Cuba, for the love of newlyweds burned alive in Afghanistan or…
One of my favorite themes is that Palestinian statelessness is an American Jewish achievement–the lobby’s support for the settlement program throughout the ’90s. Jeff Blankfort reports on a review of Dan Fleshler’s book on the Israel lobby, in The Jewish…
James North writes: Those of us with experience in Africa are regularly annoyed by the mainstream media coverage of the continent. We do not object in general to the reporting about war and hunger, which is sometimes accurate and has…
Bruce Wolman writes: According to Haaretz, Obama wants aid to go to the Palestinian Authority even with Hamas in the government. Republican Representative Mark Steven Kirk told Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a House hearing last week that the…