Why do we liken Israel to the Jim Crow south? Jeff Blankfort writes: Back in October, 1981 in a letter to The Nation commenting on a critical article on Rabbi Meir Kahane by Christopher Hitchens, I noted that Kahane represented…
Daniel Pipes tempers his usual fevers– “How deep runs Obama’s antipathy toward the Jewish state?” he asks, in a column that paints the Democratic left as “anti-Zionist” (I wish)– with an awakening or two: Democrats cooled[toward Israel] in the post-Cold…
Daniel Pipes tempers his usual fevers– “How deep runs Obama’s antipathy toward the Jewish state?” he asks, in a column that paints the Democratic left as “anti-Zionist” (I wish)– with an awakening or two: Democrats cooled[toward Israel] in the post-Cold…
Frontpage New York Times headline right now: “In Israel, History With a Whiff of Adventure”. Excerpt: Teenagers thrive on action and intrigue, and Israel fits the bill… Our Golan Heights excursion unleashed a torrent of questions about the war for…
Frontpage New York Times headline right now: “In Israel, History With a Whiff of Adventure”. Excerpt: Teenagers thrive on action and intrigue, and Israel fits the bill… Our Golan Heights excursion unleashed a torrent of questions about the war for…
Into your life it will creep. Two recent headlines from the Times Op-Ed page: Benny Morris: “Why Israel Feels Threatened.” Jeffrey Goldberg: “Israel’s Fears…”
One lesson of Jeffrey Goldberg’s continued platform in the New York Times to preach to Americans about Amalek and the Holocaust on the eve of Netanyahu’s visit is that there is a war inside the Times between progressives/realists and neoconservatives/liberal…
A smart friend points out that Roger Cohen described Jeffrey Goldberg as Netanyahu’s stenographer (days after I, less memorably, called him Netanyahu’s amanuensis; shows you shouldn’t use pretentious words), and then continues with this analysis of Goldberg on the Times…
Today we’re trying to counter the feverish Zionist obsession with Islamic fundamentalism. Occupation magazine (kibush) publishes a devastating review by Ran Greenstein, a South African, of Benny Morris’s new book, One State, Two States: The very opening words invoke the…