Yesterday Adam Horowitz landed on the repulsive Wall ad for an Israeli cell phone company–produced by McCann Erickson, a NY ad company– and cited Noam Sheizaf. Today the Washington Post got to the story. And great that they did– “Israel…
John Mearsheimer sent me the following email lately: There is not going to be a debate between me and David Harris [executive director of the American Jewish Committee]. As you know, he previously said that he wanted to debate me,…
Joseph Dana reports: Yesterday, members of Ta’ayush set out to have a picnic at an illegal outpost built on Palestinian land next to the settlement of Susya in the southern West Bank. We are always thinking of new and different…
From the progressive site, JVoices, a report on pro-Palestinian queers’ marching in the gay pride parade in San Francisco, partly to counter the message brought by the Israeli consulate: Prior to the Parade day, we were not sure that we…
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel reports: We are now pleased to announce that we have received confirmation from the Palestinian Prisoners‘ Club Society that they will not be hosting Leonard Cohen in Ramallah. A…
Long piece by Clark Hoyt, the NYT public editor, on the sociology of the marriage announcements in the New York Times talks about class issues and bloodlines, and same-sex marriages, and the meritocracy– When bloodlines are mentioned, they tend to…
I’ve been reading Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) because he’s the most important political Jew of the last century or so, giving his short life to a heroic, “tragic” cause (his word) that he never saw come to life, a cause I…
Yesterday we gave Newsweek a wet kiss for publishing the Israel Project’s sickmaking recommendations on how to sell settlements to the American public–the idea that removing them is “ethnic cleansing.” Well I’m having weird feelings the morning after, cause here’s…
Check out this new commercial from the Israeli cellular provider Cellcom: Noam Sheizaf translates the ending, “What do we all want? Some fun, that’s all.” He then adds “And what’s more fun than not seeing the Palestinians around anymore, thanks…