In the Forward, Isaac Luria, 26, of J Street goes after Foxman, David Harris and Malcolm Hoenlein, saying that the old guard don’t get it, and young Jews are making a new identity. “Continuity” in this excerpt is the concern…
Fresh from meeting the president, Abe Foxman is reassured that he reached out to Jewish leaders. But he says in the Jerusalem Post that Carter erred by pushing peace in the Middle East, and so is Obama erring. I guess…
I attack the Washington Post all the time. Well here’s a great piece by Howard Schneider and Samuel Sockol of the Post about Israeli novelist Alon Hilu, who has made the Nakba a central theme in a historical novel about…
A controversy that the rightwing lobby is seeking to stir up over the fact that Human Rights Watch has raised money recently in Saudi Arabia is well-reported here by Ali Gharib: [Law professor/blogger David] Bernstein maintained that “it’s extremely unwise…
Ali Abunimah, an old friend of Barack Obama’s and a leading member of the Arab-American community who has not yet been invited to the White House, reflects on the visit of 16 Jewish machers to the president’s table on Monday…
The Senate Judiciary Committee is charged with the serious ruling-class responsibility — or masquerade as it turns out– of vetting Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. Given the supremacy of the Democratic Party these days, there are 12 Democrats and…
This is interesting. Take a breath, and connect the dots in this post. Yesterday we ran a post on Rush Limbaugh, by the assidulous FE Felson, who had dug up a 2007 speech where Rush said that he had gone…
The following was written by Samia Khoury. Khoury was born in Jaffa, Palestine on November 24, 1933. She has had a lifetime of of involvement in Palestinian civil society through Birzeit University, the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center and the…
(Photo from http://www.vivapalestina-us.org/) Viva Palestina, a convoy of US human rights activists has entered Gaza with truckloads of humanitarian aid. The delegation has over 200 people, and is a follow up trip to one led by British MP George Galloway…