Adam Horowitz has a true back-of-the-envelope description of Zionism. I first heard it when I met Adam last May, in New York. Here’s what he said then and reminded me of today: The Zionist movement, led by European Jews looking…

A lot of new people are coming to this blog– and to leftwing and Arabist sites–because of Gaza. These new readers are outraged by the slaughter and don’t trust the conventional guides. This influx represents a great opportunity for my…

On New Year’s I kept wondering if I’d made a mistake posting about Meet the Press, the fact that four of six participants are Jewish this Sunday, in a discussion of foreign policy. Was I imposing a quota on foreign-policy…