My visit to Gaza last month was mostly wrenching, but there were generous and compassionate moments, too. This post is about one of those moments. On June 2, the UN Relief and Works Agency set up a meeting between the…
By Joseph Dana Yesterday morning, Nefesh B’Nefesh had the first in a series of summer 2009 celebrations greeting its charter flights packed with new immigrants from North America. Nefesh B’Nefesh is a non-profit organization that encourages and facilitates Jewish immigration…
A few weeks ago we posted an interesting report from a Congressional intern who attended an “official briefing on the U.S.-Israel alliance” organized by AIPAC. The presenters concluded the training by telling the interns “you have leadership potential, and AIPAC…
All 21 members of the Spirit of Humanity who had been held by Israel for attempting to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza have been released. According to the Free Gaza movement, Many passengers did not get all of their belongings…
I keep meaning to do a post on Robert McNamara’s very long persecuted old age and what that example holds for the neoconservatives, who if Richard Perle keeps his lipids down in the south of France, and Elliott Abrams gets…
I did a post yesterday, in the moment, foolishly giving Obama a break, prospectively, if Israel is to bomb Iran. Two of my intellectual betters demurred. Jack Ross: I’m closer to Antony Loewenstein than to you on this one. If…
Today The Times publishes a slightly-negative review of Dennis Ross and David Makovsky’s new book on the unending peace process in which reviewer Howard French employs an indirect style that leaves the impression that he wanted to denounce the authors…
Sharing a cab to JFK, business for him, a frolic for me, Antony Loewenstein challenged me, If Israel bombs Iran, then you really have to get over your adoration of Obama. But I said I wouldn’t. I would say that…
(Photos by Hamde Aburahma) Two weeks ago I did a post about the Israeli military raiding the village of Bil’in in the middle of the night. In addition to sharing the horrifying news, it was also an example of what…