Every once in a while I do a great post! And I did one last night, exposing the truly weird religious- nationalist rhetoric of Michael Oren, the new Israeli ambassador to the US, in Commentary this month. James North points…
Every once in a while I do a great post! And I did one last night, exposing the truly weird religious- nationalist rhetoric of Michael Oren, the new Israeli ambassador to the US, in Commentary this month. James North points…
Growing up outside Philadelphia, my family received the Jewish Exponent newspaper every week. I believe it was sent to every Jewish person in the area that was a member of a synagogue (we were members of Har Zion), along with…
Question: What happens if you cross a chimpanzee and a hippopotamus? Another splendid comic in the Forward by Eli Valley, this one taking off after Abe Foxman and the Anti-Defamation League. There’s a Marc Rich joke in there, and a…
Question: What happens if you cross a chimpanzee and a hippopotamus? Another splendid comic in the Forward by Eli Valley, this one taking off after Abe Foxman and the Anti-Defamation League. There’s a Marc Rich joke in there, and a…
The following letter speaks for itself. It is from the President of Tel Aviv University and is posted on a new site that monitors “anti-Israel” expression on campuses within Israel. There is a campaign, evidently, to expel a Palestinian student…
Today I figure there will be the weekly demonstration in Ni’lin against the separation wall that is confiscating Palestinian land east of the old green line. Israel has opened an investigation into the army’s lethal firing of teargas shells during…
The Jerusalem Post has published a rightwing attack on Dan Fleshler’s new book by Jonathan Schanzer of the Jewish Policy Forum. Funny–Fleshler’s book attacks AIPAC, and Schanzer just spoke at the AIPAC policy conference, about Palestinian politics. I wonder whether…
Kabobfest has a fine post on resistance art, stating, “It’s only a matter of time before we culturally overwhelm the occupation — especially as young progressive Jews join this just cause.” And our correspondent, Seven, a Palestinian-American woman in California,…