High noon, they’re calling it. The Israel Policy Forum is taking its stand a week before Netanyahu gets here, and trying to give Obama cover in the Jewish community to call for bold action toward a two-state solution because the…
From Theodor Herzl’s Diaries, July 6, 1895: [Zionist Max] Nordau said, ‘What is the tragedy of Jewry? That this most conservative of peoples, which yearns to root itself in a soil, has had no home for the last two thousand…
From Theodor Herzl’s Diaries, July 6, 1895: [Zionist Max] Nordau said, ‘What is the tragedy of Jewry? That this most conservative of peoples, which yearns to root itself in a soil, has had no home for the last two thousand…
Last night I posted an LA Times piece called “What Is Anti-Semitism?” that accepts a Daniel Jonah Goldhagen test of anti-Semitism: Does the speaker harp on Israel’s faults and not consider other countries’ faults? (I wonder if Goldhagen even thinks…
Here is Ethan Bronner in today’s Times, reporting the Pope’s fears of a “dwindling and threatened” Christian population in the Middle East, and specifically Jerusalem. The reasons, Bronner says: bad economy, political violence, radical Islam. With Islam pushing aside nationalism…
Bruce Wolman writes: A few weeks back, Efraim Inbar, an advisor to Benjamin Netanyahu (and also director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies) was rather optimistic when he spoke to New York Times reporter Isabel Kershner about relations between…
Nick Goldberg has a great piece in the LA Times on the William I. Robinson case at UC Santa Barbara that basically/secretly comes down on Robinson’s side, his right to pass around an email comparing Israeli human rights abuses with…
Nick Goldberg has a great piece in the LA Times on the William I. Robinson case at UC Santa Barbara that basically/secretly comes down on Robinson’s side, his right to pass around an email comparing Israeli human rights abuses with…
IbnEzra, an Israeli peace activist in the West Bank, writes about moving to Tel Aviv a couple of years ago and pledging to stay for three years, in exchange for generous financial gifts from Israel and an American pro-immigration outfit:…