Here’s the Times piece on the Caryl Churchill play, Seven Jewish Children. And here’s the press release for the event at the Brecht Forum: Monday, March 16, 2009 8 PM An Evening in Memory of Rachel Corrie and the People…
Here’s an update on Tristan Anderson’s condition. He’s unconscious following surgery in a good Israeli hospital, and will be kept unconscious for days to aid healing. His family’s getting a lot of support, and is headed over there. On Monday…
On the sixth anniversary of the killing of Rachel Corrie, consider this: Kim Lamberty was volunteering for a Christian group, escorting Palestinian children to school in the West Bank four years ago, when she was attacked on September 30, 2004…
God bless the LA Times for its intellectual leadership. I’m proud to know the editorial page editor, Nick Goldberg. Today the page goes further than any MSM page in America and prints an amazing piece by Ben Ehrenreich embracing anti-Zionism…
Adam Horowitz, the co-editor of this site, has done a lot of speaking on Israel/Palestine and is regularly asked, “But Mr. Horowitz, tell us what you think of the two-state solution!?” Recently, for instance, he was asked this question by…
Charles Lane in the Washington Post and David Rothkopf on Foreign Policy make the same angry point: the Freeman affair has devolved into a regrettable argument about whether Israel’s supporters in this country have dual loyalties. Lane wants President Obama…
Last night I had a dream where I was on a subway platform with a lot of other people in a private party and one group of us suddenly announced themselves as Zionists. They wore blue and white hats or…
In my haste to slam the Washington Post for giving short shrift to the Tristan Anderson shooting, I credited Ethan Bronner with a good job on his Times story re the Bay-Area activist, whose survival is in our thoughts tonight….
Those Israeli journalists are tops. That’s Uri Avnery’s headline for his piece on the Freeman affair. “The portrayal of the power of the lobby by Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, has been fully vindicated.”