Throughout his adult life in Central Europe, Kafka was interested by Zionism and Palestine, but never fell in with the movement. He wrote that Zionism was a “soul-sustaining community,” but he was antisocial, and was “nauseated by it.” In 1913…
Do I single out Israel’s human rights abuses in a sea of man’s inhumanity to man, as Dershowitz charges? You betcha. Steve Walt offers this realist justification for the focus on Israel/Palestine: Contrary to what some critics think, the reason…
I started using the words “dual loyalty” about a year and a half ago. Wondered what door I’d pushed open. Now Commentary’s Noah Pollak has accused The American Conservative of “un-American” language over a reference to Israel’s “fifth column,” and…
As any regular visitor to this site knows, I have conflicted feelings about my relationship to the Jewish community. Though I am always proudly Jewish, I announce that I am assimilating, anti-Zionist, non-Zionist, realist, leftist. I have a love-hate thing…
The JTA is reporting that Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat is coming to the US to drum up support among American Jews for his plans for the city. He hopes to find Jewish “shareholders” for several special economic zones that will…
Last week Sallai Meridor quit as Israeli ambassador to the US with some saying he saw the two countries on a “collision course” with President Obama and PM Netanyahu. Now Eli Lake reports that Netanyahu’s likely choice as national security…
This is a cool boycott action video from a French supermarket. And here’s an explanation of the green-shirted action in the video, for the French-impaired (from an email that’s being passed around): Mostly, they are talking about the products they…
Yesterday David Bromwich published a piece on Huffpo memorializing Rachel Corrie in the best way, by using her story to critique the media and the American government and ultimately to the fields of political philosophy and Jewish and American identity….