Coming to the Goldberg Room at UC-Berkeley’s law school, tomorrow evening: Michal Michlin-Friedlander, an attorney from the State Attorney’s office in Israel’s Ministry of Justice, speak[s] about her experiences litigating human rights cases before the Israeli Supreme Court. Ms. Michlin-Friedlander…
Day one at the “One State for Palestine/Israel: A Country for All Its Citizens?” conference is over and here are some early thoughts: One of the most striking things about the conference is simply the audience and energy. The energy…
Typically, I misplayed the bounce on the Pankaj Mishra post earlier today about the reverence among Hindu nationalists for Hitler and Zionism. My friend of Indian extraction gets it right: That’s one thing I love about the Israel-India alliance– Indian…
Say it again: Gaza has struck a blow to the Israel lobby. Here (thanks to Eva Smagacz) is a long column by Jerusalem Post editor David Horovitz that teems with anxiety about the delegitimization of Israel in the eyes of…
Yesterday I noted that, dispelling the usual hypocrisy that surrounds the discussion, Martin Indyk spoke openly of Israel’s nuclear weapons when taking a realist view of Iran’s nuclear program. Here is Stephen Zunes, in an interview with Kourosh Ziabari of…
In The National, Pankaj Mishra is dyspeptic about partition, which has led both India and Israel into a “moral wilderness” of nationalism. (I do wish he’d pointed out that the Pakistanis got a state, the Palestinians didn’t.) He says in…
I’m charged that Adam is in Boston for the One State conference, but wanted to throw him a fastball while he’s there. I was reading this last night on the couch: the latest New Voices, which contains a fine interview…
Yesterday I caught part of PBS travel guru Rick Steves’s wonderful trip to Iran on television. His whole message was great, till he spoke of “family values” in Iran. That’s why people support the Islamic republic, he said, they have…
Neocon Ira Stoll, writing in the Daily News, claims Lincoln for Israel. He says that Hamas has perpetrated the equivalent of slavery and the only way to fight slavery is to destroy it. He, and Cynthia Ozick too, is upset…