Yesterday when I asked Brandeis troublemaker Lior Halperin whether she was Jewish, she said, “Yes. I’m what people call a self-hating Jew.” I said, “I love you, Lior. Me too.” I’m not a good Jew. I’m probably a bad Jew….
This happened today. Lisa cuts my dogs once or twice a year. I think she likes dogs more than humans. Here she is kissing one of my dogs before she gets to work. Before When she’s done, she puts bandanas…
Let’s face it: the Israel lobby may be looking at what the Cuba lobby faced six years ago: that moment when its interest ceases to be a special interest, when ordinary Americans see their own interest at stake in the…
The Boston Globe put the Brandeis censorship on its front page today (and did a better job than I did of writing it up!).
In the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz today, NYU Professor Tony Judt argues that the publication of the now-famous essay on the Israel lobby may signal a real change in American foreign policy, away from our “umbilical” relationship to Israel. The fact…
The Harvard Independent is now calling the Kaavya Visnawathan story Kaavya-gate. That of course is their prerogative. Heck, they’re college students. But the Times, after first imbibing the Kaavya story hook, line and stinker, is now chasing the bloggers. The…
Dennis Nealon, a spokesman for Brandeis, tells me the school did take down the exhibit. “The university had to make a decision. We were getting complaints from people that the exhibit was one-dimensional. There was no other context… It was…
An exhibit of 17 paintings done by Palestinian children that was mounted in a library at Brandeis University last week was taken down over the weekend by the Brandeis administration. That’s from Lior Halperin, a 27-year-old Israeli sophomore at Brandeis,…
Booing Johnny Damon—what a bunch of classless ingrates. As I remember, Johnny Damon was playing for the Oakland A’s when the Red Sox took him, by giving him a ton more money, ripping off a small-market club. He came to…