I disagree with just about everything Samuel Freedman, a parochialist, writes, but boy is he smart and sensitive. He knows which way the arrow’s pointing, as we say in college basketball. Writing in the Jerusalem Post: The two-state solution, to…
Ira Glunts, who used to live in Israel and now lives in upstate New York, has been tracking the Israeli response to the Arab cultural festival. Read his account and weep. It is about profound disrespect for the other. The…
Yesterday I went on Press TV to discuss the Israel lobby with Elazar Barkan and Dan Fleshler, and after the taping, the three of us hung out in a hallway talking. We all disagreed about what the lobby is. I’d…
Tony Karon has a great piece on the state of the Situation in the National, out of Abu Dhabi, and he agrees with me, the next generation of American Jews is off the reservation on Israel: Jewish communities in western…
Israeli Arabs will be barred from jobs as railway safety inspectors in Israel because an Israeli army discharge certificate is now required for getting such jobs. Writes my tipster: “This reminds me of Jim Crow voting laws in the South….
MJ Rosenberg has a genius post about Israeli President Shimon Peres sending his New Year’s greeting to Iran right on the heels of Obama’s greeting to Iran. I hear that the White House is furious. Today’s Times reports that when…
A friend writes: Isn’t Yglesias supposedly one of bold new generation of young american jewish bloggers who speaks truth to power on Israel? This is pathetic: One doesn’t know the extent of these things, but both of the people speaking…
The New York Times covers Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat’s US barnstorming tour today. During a description of the mass house demolitions taking place in Palestinian neighborhoods Ethan Bronner quotes Yakir Segev, the person Barkat has put in charge of East…
Cliff Kincaid, at Accuracy in Media, (I seem to remember I got in with them during the Clinton years; oh my) is trying to prevent Rupert Murdoch/HarperCollins from publishing and promoting former SDS radical Mark Rudd’s forthcoming book, Underground. Says…