On Italian Yahoo. These young keffiyeh Jews are LA Jews for Peace, and staged a demo outside the Israeli consulate there today. Fabulous poster, huh? And check out the iconic masks of Palestinian suffering… I feel like young Jews are…
The smooth Englishman on Al-Jazeera to whom I referred this morning is Shihab Rattansi, formerly of CNN, and a credit to the human race. Here is wonderful footage of him this afternoon interviewing first Dennis Kucinich at Congress–and asking him…
The Oakland Education Association, a union representing 2800 teachers, has taken a truly bold stance re Gaza: The OEA unreservedly condemns the murderous Israeli assault on Gaza, their deliberate targeting of the civilian population, including schools and hospitals, and Israel’s…
If you’re an idiot but pro-Israel, you can get a paid platform. If you’re sharply critical of Israel, it is extremely difficult to get paid to express those views. (Name me all the anti-Zionists in media jobs.)
The Burris story stopped being a Blagojevich story when it became a race story. Suddenly a nation that had congratulated itself on ending a color bar in the White House watched an all-white Senate turn a black man out in…
Leila Abu-Saba writes: Yes it’s amusing that you laugh at your own Orientalism – we all have our limitations. Part of becoming truly worldly is then expanding your rustic horizons. Because it doesn’t read as cute in the worldly world,…
David Bromwich writes: Thomas Friedman’s column today, his first on the bombing and invasion of Gaza, enthusiastically supports Israel’s actions as part of a Middle East strategy that Barak Obama ought to endorse. Friedman writes, he says, on behalf of…
I was cutting firewood right now in the ice when I realized that I’d left the most important part of Dana Goldstein’s post out in my last post. Here it is: As a writer with the last name “Goldstein,” I’ve…
Dana Goldstein in The American Prospect: I never, as a rule, write about the Israel-Palestine conflict. I’m going to break that rule today… It’s not just that military solutions have a poor track record of solving problems of terrorism in…