I haven’t always been the biggest fan of Uriel Heilman, but I have to say he does a great job in his JTA article “Who is Bibi trying to fool?”. Heilman presents a basic fact that the much of the…
Shaul Magid is an esteemed professor of Jewish studies at Indiana University. The latest Forward contains his review of David Myers’s book, Between Arab and Jew: The Lost Voice of Simon Rawidowicz, which ends with the paragraph below. Magid is…
Last month, the Japanese author Haruki Murakami accepted the Jerusalem Prize as part of the Jerusalem International Book Fair. Murakami was widely criticized for attending and rejecting calls to boycott the event. At the award ceremony Murakami addressed the controversy…
Israel’s policy of blocking pasta from entering Gaza received attention from John Kerry on his recent trip to Israel/Palestine. Unfortunately that was just the beginning. Israel is now preventing random goods on a haphazard basis. In addition to pasta, recent…
Chas Freeman has finally hit the the front pages and editorial sections of the leading US newspapers. Freeman landed on the front pages of both the New York Times and Washington Post, but the real fireworks have been in the…
The US had already demonstrated that it is willing to use its humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the wake of the war in Gaza to pursue political goals. Now, the US is threatening to pull the aid all together unless…
On the day after he helped sink Chas Freeman, and on the day the Washington Post ran an editorial calling for the Justice Department to drop the case against him, it has also come to light that Steven J. Rosen…
(Face to face with Palestine: Alice Walker talks with Palestinian women in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun. AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker has done her first interview on her trip to Gaza. The Associated Press…
Success is said to have a thousand fathers and Daniel Pipes is joining the crowd taking credit for the Freeman takedown. He sent out the following note to his email newsletter mailing list last night: Dear Reader: As many of…