There has been something bizarre about the turn in Israeli/Zionist rhetoric in recent months, particularly…
I did a post yesterday, in the moment, foolishly giving Obama a break, prospectively, if Israel is to bomb Iran. Two of my intellectual betters demurred. Jack Ross: I’m closer to Antony Loewenstein than to you on this one. If…
Jack Ross writes: Dershowitz is still, at least half-heartedly defending Obama–Commentary’s take with a link to the column. I’m not sure quite what to make of it. On the one hand, Dershowitz takes pretty much the same position as Norman…
Jack Ross takes on Professor Eliav Shuchtman’s belief that Israel should not be a state of all its citizens: The references to Israel not being “a state of all its citizens” as a principle of international law are clearly alluding…
Jack Ross, first on Obama’s game, then on the Nakba: It’s important to cut through the smoke and mirrors of biblical references – which is not to say that Netanyahu’s “Amalek” mindset isn’t real and threatening. But the sense of…
Jack Ross, first on Obama’s game, then on the Nakba: It’s important to cut through the smoke and mirrors of biblical references – which is not to say that Netanyahu’s “Amalek” mindset isn’t real and threatening. But the sense of…
Jack Ross responds to Robert Kaplan’s suggestion that Iraq was Nazi Germany, and so we could not appease it. When considering the idea that Israel will be “the new Czechoslovakia”, we must remember that Czechoslovakia, like Israel, was a state…
Jack Ross responds to my posts about “bad Jews” reclaiming secular Jewish identity. He begins by taking on the embrace of AIPAC by the Conservative Rabbinical Assembly, which triggered my original post: First off, the Conservatives are hemmorhaging membership, and…
A piece that might have been titled “Jews are better; Jews don’t hate,” by David Suissa–on the 459th-ranked site on the internet, which has lately gotten substantial financing. Writes Jack Ross: “What we’re seeing in Huffington Post now is an…