Former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is being held in an Israeli prison, along with 18 other international activists, for trying to bring humanitarian aid into Gaza. She called into a radio station today to give an update: Ha’aretz is reporting…
Our friend Seham sets us straight: Did you guys come up with some offline pact to not mention Michael Jackson’s passing on your site? Lame. Arabs loved Michael Jackson, they loved him, unapologetically. And my Arabs still haven’t tired of…
Hardworking Nathan Guttman gets the first interview with Hawaiian-beshirted Larry Franklin, the former Defense department analyst who was the only man to go down in the investigation of AIPAC lobbyists Rosen and Weissman: His superiors at the time were both…
The other day I wrote that now that non-Zionists are finally gaining a voice in the discourse on Israel/Palestine, we have to bring our bat and ball– positive ideas about how to solve things in the Middle East, not just…
From Haaretz: “Housing Minister: Spread of Arab population must be stopped”: Housing Minister Ariel Atias on Thursday warned against the spread of Arab population into various parts of Israel, saying that preventing this phenomenon was no less than a national…
Jack Ross writes: Dershowitz is still, at least half-heartedly defending Obama–Commentary’s take with a link to the column. I’m not sure quite what to make of it. On the one hand, Dershowitz takes pretty much the same position as Norman…
Surprise. Max Boot at Commentary wants Israel to bomb Iran now. So does John Bolton, speaking from the fever ward, the Washington Post op-ed page. The former ambassador says the Tehran revolt has upped the urgency for regime change. Significantly,…
Ira Glunts writes: The flap over the settlement freeze is an indication of the difficulty the U.S. will continue to encounter in any effort to obtain Israeli cooperation with Obama’s two-state solution plans. The Netanyahu government is not interested in…
Columbia student Anna Kelner, writing on America’s blog: On Monday, when Columbia University granted tenure to Joseph Massad — the professor of Modern Arab politics whose alleged intimidation of pro-Israeli students likely doomed his first tenure bid in 2005 –…