Brilliant post by Daniel Luban at Lobelog, demolishing neocon Charles Krauthammer’s ideas about the Iranian protesters. Krauthammer says they seek American intervention to bring about “regime change”–“to bring down the tyrannical, misogynist, corrupt theocracy…” Luban demonstrates that this is a…
Israel is still alive. Here’s a wonderful piece by David Shulman of Ta’ayush in Haaretz, imploring a judge not to sentence old activist/plumber/immigrant Ezra Nawi to jail for attempting to prevent Bedouin house demolitions–actually shanty demolitions– in the occupied West…
Days after the slapping video made by Israeli soldiers revealed how deeply-dehumanized Palestinians are in the Israeli mind, here is a horrifying story from the Gaza Strip, from the International Solidarity Movement. Two months ago, Ahmed Abu Hashish, an 18-year-old…
Jeff Blankort writes: Here’s an interesting post by an Iranian writer recommended to me by Nader Hashemi. The writer’s critique of the left’s position, those supporting Ahamdinejad, is important. Frankly, I could have predicted almost exactly how the pundits of…
Fat’s in the fire. Michael Goldfarb: just in case you think [Andrew] Sullivan might not necessarily be using the term neocon as a substitute for Zionist, he helpfully clears up any confusion by referring to the paper’s op-ed page as…
My headline is a line from Theodor Herzl’s diaries. He went to Russia in 1902 and stopped in Vilnius, where he was besieged by the poor–the King of the Jews, he would deliver them from persecution. He was pulled to…
Helena Cobban, at IPS, reports that Jimmy Carter briefed George Mitchell yesterday at White House: They [Obama Administration officials] have been supported in [peacemaking] effort by another quiet but very effective envoy, too: former Pres. Jimmy Carter. Carter, like Mitchell,…
Saree Makdisi calls the media to task for its coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and especially Netanyahu’s speech last weekend. From his oped in today’s Los Angeles Times “The language that absolves Israel”: Similarly, Israeli housing units built in the…
A disturbing trend is emerging on YouTube – videos that show Israel in a bad light are being taken down. The first example was Max Blumenthal and Joseph Dana’s Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem video, which was removed after being…