I had a wave of guilt today about this post, fearing that I was too casual about the idea of the end of Jewishness through assimilation. I edited the thing to alter the tone somewhat, and drove my wife to…
The new J Street poll has some fascinating findings re the complexity of Jewish attitudes re Israel. First the good news. 60 percent of American Jews are against expanding the settlements and the same number say the Gaza war didn’t…
From the Associated Press in Jerusalem: The Andersons, of Grass Valley, Calif., held back tears Monday as they described their son’s critical condition. “We don’t know if he’ll recover, and if he does, we don’t know what abilities he will…
J Street has a new poll out on American Jewish attitudes that has some fascinating wrinkles re Middle East policy. Including the fact that 60 percent of American Jews oppose the settlements in the West Bank. And that 32 percent…
First Melanie Phillips accuses Haaretz and all others of the blood libel for suggesting that the atrocities in Gaza were anything other than an accident. Then she calls these critics “Uncle Tom Israelbasher” and says the phenomenon is “global.” She’s…
Ilene Cohen writes: Richard Falk in this interview is, as always, unflappable and indefatigable. He is challenged by the BBC interviewer that the Israelis “dismiss” him because he is “biased,” and following the interview, an Israeli spokesperson is quoted as…
Michael Walzer was my government professor in college. We revered him. Today I celebrate him for saying just what John Mearsheimer says, that the American gov’t must put heavy pressure on Israel to defeat the settler movement; but I cannot…
Yesterday’s Jerusalem Post ran an important piece by Samuel Freedman on the likely end of the two-state solution and calls for democracy in Israel/Palestine. Last week at the 92d Street Y, another American Jewish journalist, Michelle Goldberg, said the same…
Readers know that I am compiling answers, from Jews and non-Jews, to the Dershowitzian question, why we at this site single out Israel for criticism from the great sea of living evidence of man’s inhumanity to man? Hannah Arendt: “In…