Weird. Here’s a statement by Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers saying the AFT opposes the academic boycott of Israel. OK. Some people don’t like this kind of thing. But the AFT includes the gratuitous and erroneous statement…
Why do I depend on Steve Rosen for all my information about the Israel lobby and its discontents? Cause he’s wired, I guess. At Middle East Forum, he says General Anthony Zinni is the frontrunner. Realist. And good on The…
YNET is reporting that past Israeli foreign ministers do not think that incoming Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman will hurt Israel’s international relations. They say relations are not based on Lieberman, but the government he is representing. Good point. Dovish former…
Jack Ross responds to the earlier post on Rabbis for Human Rights: I don’t follow them as closely as your other correspondent, though I’m proud to say that I belong to the congregation of one of their most vocal members,…
A tipster named Ben writes the following: Based on The New York Times article you linked yesterday, it looks like there’s some image-scrubbing at work to ensure that Avigdor Lieberman doesn’t get the full Jorg Haider treatment if he becomes…
During the war in Gaza one of the threads that we followed here on Mondoweiss was the shameful response from Jewish communal organizations, which ranged from outright support to ambiguous silence. Reader Michael Levin contacted us at that point to…
In case you haven’t noticed, one of my political projects here is to push the shiddach, which is Yiddish for an arranged marriage, of American realists and leftists over Palestine because it’s so potentially transformative. I began this process personally…
For The Financial Times yesterday, the likelihood that Avigdor Lieberman will become Foreign Minister was the top news story of the day. FT ran the story in the top-right hand column of the paper, ahead of the AIG story. For…