I haven’t always been the biggest fan of Uriel Heilman, but I have to say he does a great job in his JTA article “Who is Bibi trying to fool?”. Heilman presents a basic fact that the much of the…
Jack Ross takes exception to my framing the Chas Freeman drama as a story about Jews and WASPs contending for place in the establishment, and to me using Ned Lamont, who first beat Joe Lieberman then lost to him in…
Purely tragic. A Sydney synagogue has cancelled a March 23 appearance by Jeff Halper, of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, because the synagogue had wanted to limit Halper’s presentation to Jews in a bible study. Said the executive director:…
Shaul Magid is an esteemed professor of Jewish studies at Indiana University. The latest Forward contains his review of David Myers’s book, Between Arab and Jew: The Lost Voice of Simon Rawidowicz, which ends with the paragraph below. Magid is…
Last month, the Japanese author Haruki Murakami accepted the Jerusalem Prize as part of the Jerusalem International Book Fair. Murakami was widely criticized for attending and rejecting calls to boycott the event. At the award ceremony Murakami addressed the controversy…
Nice piece by Al-Jazeera English on Freeman, quoting Hillary Mann Leverett and Max Blumenthal, both using the words “the Israel lobby” a lot. It’s entered our political language, and a good thing–enough prevarication. Al-Jazeera picks a smart quote from Freeman’s…
Israel’s policy of blocking pasta from entering Gaza received attention from John Kerry on his recent trip to Israel/Palestine. Unfortunately that was just the beginning. Israel is now preventing random goods on a haphazard basis. In addition to pasta, recent…
Sydney Morning Herald gets the Chas Freeman story in this great editorial: In the United States, President Obama’s nominee as chairman of the National Intelligence Council, Chas Freeman, has just withdrawn, citing a campaign against him by the “Israel lobby”……
Felson writes: I was actually exasperated reading the NYT story. I guess it’s good that they acknowledge it was about Israel, but Mazzetti and Cooper seem to take every opportunity to paint Freeman as an unhinged fringe figure, without providing…