Lately Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon stuck to her guns in the face of an attack by the Anti-Defamation League and said that the school will keep Archbishop Desmond Tutu as its commencement speaker, notwithstanding his criticism of…
Bruce Wolman writes: Howard Schneider has at last settled in as the Washington Post’s new Jerusalem Bureau Chief. Hence it was finally time for a trip over to the Occupied Territories to cover the other half of his beat. Setting…
Amir Oren in Haaretz says that Obama has accepted Israel’s view of the global danger of a nuclear Iran and may countenance an Israeli attack– and meanwhile won’t take any bull on settlements. Bruce Wolman writes: Wishful thinking by Oren,…
Bruce Wolman writes: This Haaretz author (Tzvia Greenfield) is not very enthralled with the “universalist left”– On the other side stands the universalist left, which is uncomfortable with the Jewish identity of the Israeli state. Too many in that camp…
Bruce Wolman picks up a good piece by Gershon Baskin in the Jerusalem Post. Wolman: Gershon Baskin was always one of the most wired Israelis when it came to what it would take to make peace with the Palestinians. During…
Bruce Wolman, who reads the Norwegian press, offers this important report: It may be difficult for Americans to believe, but a disputed Jerusalem Post article asserting that Norway is rife with anti-Semitism continues to reverberate in the Norwegian media one…
Bruce Wolman writes: Larry Summers is not the only one raking it in from business interests while temporarily out of public service. Tony Blair is also doing well in the ka-ching-ka-ching department. Mind you Blair is not just a retired…
Bruce Wolman urges me to stop talking about Jeffrey Goldberg. He says that Goldberg “willfully ignores material counterfactuals to maintain his narrative” and suggests that my perseveration will bring me down to Goldberg’s boxcutter level. I’m not convinced. Goldberg is…
Bruce Wolman, who is taking over the mental-rock-breaking labors of this site today, notes that three American congressmen, Gary Ackerman, Brad Sherman, and Eliot Engel, all think that the new Netanyahu government is great, per Haaretz. Meanwhile, Lieberman had his…