Last week Laila El-Haddad’s story of trying to get into Gaza to visit her family made its way across the Internet. El-Haddad was detained at the Egyptian border and eventually forced to return to the US without entering Gaza. Part…
Middle East envoy George Mitchell is returning to Israel this week for the first time since the election of the Netanyahu/Lieberman government. Ynet is reporting the the goal of the trip is for Mitchell to figure out if the Obama…
Susie Kneedler says that Huffpo is going PEP — Progressive Except for Palestine. She points to two rightwing pieces. Here’s Mort Zuckerman given space on the site to tell the untold story about Gaza, and say that Israel has no…
This mock-realist piece by David Samuels on Slate arguing for an Israeli strike on Iran is outlandish in a number of ways. Most outlandish: Samuels’s assessment that it is a “fiction” that there would be a “mass public outcry” in…
I keep braying that Gaza is a watershed moment in American political life and American Jewish life. The billboard is one of ten being put up in New Mexico by an Albuquerque-based grassroots org (the Coalition to Stop $30 Billion…
Every column that Roger Cohen writes now on Iran in the Times must be celebrated. They’re so important, the tone is chastened and reasoned and olive-branch. They’re historic, in that they’re changing the American discussion. And Cohen has staked an…
From the Jerusalem Post: While refusing to go into detail about the military option to foil Iran’s nuclear program, Peres did say that Israel couldn’t carry out any strike against the Islamic republic without America. “We certainly cannot go it…
In the last couple of days, many commenters have taken exception to Richard Witty’s views of the Clark University censorship of Norman Finkelstein. Some of them have been abusive and vicious. We’ve eliminated those comments. We’re pleased that Witty spends…
The New York Post is enraged by the the report that Palestinian prof Joseph Massad has gotten tenure at Columbia. So is the Daily News, in a very angry editorial today, which smears a lot of folks and calls the…