Glenn Greenwald has a brilliant piece of analysis of the Rasmussen poll of American attitudes re Gaza. Greenwald points out that while Americans are generally split on sympathy for Israel or Palestine, Democratic voters are lopsidedly critical of Israel over…
Gaza demonstration in Kansas City. 450 people came. They had a mock funeral. Don’t worry, little blond kid’s alright.
Saifedean Ammous writes: This is probably the best quote I have come across on Zionism: “Zionist colonialism inhabits the space between two extinct models — those provided by South Africa and French practice in Algeria. It is not a blend…
Jerusalem police are saying that they will only permit Muslim men over 50 into the Old City to pray at the Al-Aqsa mosque today. Above is what this looks like. These men were denied entry into the Old City on…
I’m beginning to get it. Gaza is producing an explosion under the American skin. The MSM can’t handle it, can’t express it, except at the edges, but the American street is alarmed. And one of the crucial shifts that has…
There is only one conversation in journalism right now. It took place a million times over the holiday season, and it was not a balanced conversation. 3 or 4 people stood around a grinning twerp and badgered him, Why don’t…
Yakov sent me this old gem from Jewcy, way back in 2007: “What if the campus Free Tibet club campaigned for divestment from China? Would that be anti-Chinese bigotry?” asked Asaf Shtull-Trauring, a 20-year-old student and conscientious objector from the…
Gaza continues to have a political/cultural effect here. The imbalance between the blogosphere, where Gaza is Guernica, and the mainstream media (They asked for it) becomes more intolerable by the hour. This can’t last. There will come a time, and…
Just trying to get some credit for my coinage of yesteryear. Here’s Reuters trying to read the tea leaves on the mind of the Sphinx in chief. Give up now. You’ll never know what he thinks on something, till he…