Jeff Blankfort writes: I wouldn’t pay much if any attention to the Al-Quds poll. It is a Fatah [PA] organ that is not known for telling inconvenient truths. It had an English edition until sometime 1993 when the editor, amazingly,…
I had two dreams about antisemitism last night. I wish I could figure them out. They haven’t upset me today, but I’ve thought about them. The first one was in a southern setting, a picnic area in the woods, with…
Mohammad of Vancouver notes that a French Jewish writer, Marek Halter, met with Khaled Meshaal of Hamas last month in Damascus and reports that Hamas would recognize Israel’s existence inside the ’67 borders.
This analogy keeps coming to me: the urban ghettoes of the U.S. in the 60s and 70s. I’ve said it before but how different are lethal Hamas rocket attacks from black crime at that time? Second-class citizens, a sense of…
The Canadian Jewish Congress has accused those protesting the Gaza slaughter of inciting hatred and violence at “pro-Hamas” rallies that featured “vicious anti-semitism.” The CJC says it’s collecting “evidence” thereof. Marion Boulby of the Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation…
Sky Redoubt writes: This is rather interesting: I am translating more or less verbatim from a lefty blog in Hebrew. A post from 01/28/09 by Eyal Niv entitled “What do the Palestinians Want?”. What do the Palestinians want? It’s best…
The old joke is that the most dangerous place in the world is between Alan Dershowitz and a TV camera. He is still irked by the fact that Jimmy Carter, whom he says he worked with once observing an election…
Norman Finkelstein is interviewed by a Turkish publication. He makes my point: Erdogan was on a stage with someone justifying the killing of children. (Thanks to Nader Hashemi)
Question from a Reader: how do these words, from Lincoln’s Speech of 1854 on the Kansas-Nebraska Act, apply to the relationship between an Israeli man and a Palestinian man? Does Barack Obama and do American liberals dare to think of…