Jim Harb writes: Phil, the United Nations did not create Israel. I’ve noticed that you mention this from time to time, but it’s simply, historically, and factually inaccurate. This is not only a misstatement of historical fact, it is an…
Clark University just disinvited Norm Finkelstein from a speaking engagement later this month. Michigan State University was under pressure from the ADL to rescind its invitation to Israel-critic Desmond Tutu to give its commencement address. MSU is sticking to its…
asks Jeff Blankfort… this being a JTA article saying the Pentagon is studying the 2006 Lebanon war for lessons about how to fight non-state actors…
Jeff Blankfort writes: I just finished Seymour Hersh’s piece in the New Yorker, “Syria Calling,” and am no less sure than I was before that Israel does not want to negotiate a deal with Syria, only give the appearance of…
Jeff Blankfort writes: At Huffpo, Stephen Zunes provides an excellent breakdown of the restrictions placed on the Palestinians by Congress in the new budget but remains in stolid denial that it is the result of the pressure of the lobby….
Jeff Blankfort writes: I haven’t had time to read the J Street poll carefully, but I am stunned by this question if Goldfarb properly quoted it in the Weekly Standard: “More than that, a majority of respondents (53 percent) disagreed…
Jeffrey Blankfort and Jack Ross have responded to Michael Walzer’s piece in Dissent calling for the defeat of the colonization movement in the West Bank in order to save the two-state solution. Blankfort: I have a different take on Walzer….
Jeff Blankfort got this map sent to him by the Jewish Week, as a form of email advertising for Chabad in New York. Blankfort writes: Like many other maps I have seen over the years issued by Jewish organizations, secular…
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s new Washington blog is called “Capital J”. “Inside the Beltway with Ron Kampeas & Eric Fingerhut.” I wonder if they would have come up with that name if not for J Street. I bet not. That…