Why is the liberal press not embracing Rand Paul’s antiwar position? Because the elites have nothing to lose from another war in the Middle East, and even Dems have big political contributions to gain.
On January 6, Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb spoke at Stanford Hillel about why she supports BDS “as a conflict transformation tactic.” Stanford joins Harvard and Wesleyan Hillels in open defiance of Hillel International’s red lines on who students can hear.
Naseer Aruri, a Palestinian-American scholar of renowned thoughtfulness, kindness and commitment to Palestine in the Diaspora, died in February in Massachusetts at 81. He will be memorialized in Massachusetts this Saturday.
A NYT editorial saying that Netanyahu seeks to dictate terms of the Iran deal is far too polite, taking all his complaints seriously and never questioning his belligerent judgment. Jeffrey Goldberg, wrong on Iraq, gets similar respect from NPR.
A storm erupted on Rand Paul’s announcement day for the presidential nomination when Chris Matthews decried the neocon opposition to Paul, “piggish money” that is against him because he’s against another Middle East war.
Jewish orgs need to be liberated from the power of conservative donors’ money over their political positions. Eric Fingerhut of Hillel boycotted J Street because “millions of dollars” were on the line, an anonymous Hillel director says.
Netanyahu put out Islamophobic ideas on US TV yesterday, calling Iran a “militant Islamic power bent on world domination” and given to “congenital cheating.” Does Iran get the ability to rebut these claims?
Asked about Alan Dershowitz’s recent troubles, Norman Finkelstein cracked, It’s caused me to doubt my atheism.
In an interview with Tom Friedman of the New York Times, President Obama shows that he has won on foreign policy, speaking warmly of Iran and repeatedly referring to differences with Netanyahu in a kind of goodbye to the Israel lobby
The New York Times has finally done it: an honest piece about the Israel lobby’s financial influence over Congress, the Republican side of the aisle, anyway. Netanyahu’s influence among Republicans reflects the power of “a small group of wealthy donors.”