Stephen Walt, the co-author of The Israel Lobby, today personally demonstrates that the third rail of American politics is on the blink. A year after the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank sought to smear him as a crypto-Nazi, he’s in business…
Yesterday I analogized Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to the subjugation of urban blacks in the U.S. in the 70s. Of course the other apt historical analogy is to American Indians. During the Israeli invasion of Lebanon 2 and 1/2 years…
We’re living in amazing times: Take your stand or lose yer sole. Hundreds of shoes in London yesterday after demonstrators tried to throw them into Downing Street. Photo by Fiona Hanson/PA. From the Guardian
Israel has decided to let EIGHT foreign journalists into Gaza to cover the invasion. Ha’aretz reports in the article “Foreign journalists vie for the few slots to get into Gaza”: In contrast to the open policy that prevailed during the…
Jack Ross riffs on the recent post about Jewcy: The who is at least as significant as the what. Phyllis Chesler, feminist who became a David Horowitz cultist on said basis. Noah Pollak of Commentary. Andrew Bostom, collaborator of anti-Muslim…
I know that most of you are concerned with Madoff’s effect on the great battle against assimilation. Well I’m friends of contractors, and I’m told that Local 11 of the Carpenters Union, which is based in Westchester but represents carpenters…
We reported this before. But here is kabobfest actually providing a ton of the questions to Obama from the American street: The vast majority — vast majority — of questions being submitted to Obama’s Change.gov web site right now are…
The New Republic seems to depend on former IDF soldiers for more of its Israel coverage than just about anyone else. Benny Morris, Jeffrey Goldberg. And here is Michael Oren, today, on the ground in Gaza, fresh from the thinktank,…
How else to interpret the great Gideon Levy’s metaphor for the slaughter: Israel constructing a pipeline to ship blood? As Israel has been preoccupied with Gaza throughout the entire week, nobody has asked whose blood is being spilled and why….