Israel now is selling tested police technologies and methods to the world, an ironic development for a movement founded by members who knew well of the Czar’s and the Bolshevik secret police, and who feared the Cossack’s sword. A review of Jeff Halper’s new book.

Authors Lillian Rosengarten and Remi Kanazi are Americans who view Israel/Palestine– in her new autobiography and his new collection of poems– as two New Yorkers mourning their family’s ejection from a homeland. They refuse to be only the particular (Arab, Jew), refusing the scheme of the world as kin versus enemy.

Since its founding six years ago, J Street has emerged as a major Jewish organization…