The furor over the immigration bill also involves that word I like: assimilation. Note Ann Coulter’s rage against Hispanics here: [T]raitors who are citizens have destroyed all acculturating institutions… Until the recipient culture is capable of doing an effective job…
APN and AAI set up a conference call today to announce their poll results (below) and when I asked AAI’s Jim Zogby why more Arab-Americans (6%) would have the U.S. lean towards Israel in its Mideast policy than lean towards…
A new poll of Arab-American and American Jewish attitudes on Israel/Palestine shows remarkable agreement. “Seeing eye to eye,” claim the poll’s sponsors, the Arab American Institute and Americans for Peace Now. To wit: –98 percent of Jews says Israelis have…
A couple weeks back, I mentioned Noam Chomsky’s assertion that the smear of Jews who criticize Israel as being “self hating” originated in 1973 in comments by Abba Eban in an American Jewish Congress publication. I looked up that old…
Eloquent, moving, brilliant: the best words for Tony Karon’s reminiscence/analysis of the ’67 war in Israel/Palestine, and its lasting effects… Three excerpts follow: 1, Karon’s unflinching description of ethnic cleansing in ’48 (dispensing with the “They were told to flee”…
The Carl Bernstein book on Hillary gives weight to my favorite theory about the Clinton scandals: that Vincent Foster’s death in July 1993 was linked to Clinton’s zipper problem According to the W.Post: In Bernstein’s account, both Clintons went to…
This week’s New Republic has a profile of Chuck Hagel written in a regretful tone by the usually-emulable John Judis saying that Hagel has become “unmoored” by the Iraq war. It epitomizes a leading attitude among liberals: Iraq was a…
Everyone is talking about Michael Chabon’s new novel, and good for him, he’s good. But let’s be clear, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union is a fantasy set in Alaska. It’s not about the here and now. Chabon began in a different…
A year ago I turned on C-SPAN and found myself transfixed for an hour by Roscoe Bartlett, the octogenarian congressman/engineer from Western Maryland who has made a cause out of lecturing Americans about their dependence on petroleum. Well it happened…