From Richard Witty to Clark University President John Bassett this morning : Dear Mr Bassett, I’m writing to you to request that you review the decision to cancel the Norman Finkelstein lecture at Clark scheduled for April 21. While I…
Blunt censorship. Clark University has cancelled a talk later this month by Norman Finkelstein, saying it will shed more heat than light. This on the same week that Joseph Massad is said to have gotten tenure at Columbia. So reports…
Amir Oren in Haaretz says that Obama has accepted Israel’s view of the global danger of a nuclear Iran and may countenance an Israeli attack– and meanwhile won’t take any bull on settlements. Bruce Wolman writes: Wishful thinking by Oren,…
Rabbi Michael Lerner, at Huffpo, on how Passover became problematic this year: As several congregants put it to me, “We Jews have become Pharaoh to the Palestinian people — so we would be hypocrites to sit around our Passover table…
Donald Johnson sent me this note: I visit Norman Finkelstein’s site about once a week. I usually get there by googling his name and then clicking. That didn’t work yesterday, because apparently Google no longer provides links to Norman’s site….
Something is stirring at the New York Times. Make no mistake, friends: Four op-eds in four days (a couple of them on-line, appearing in the International Herald Tribune, but picked up by the Times) questioning the pro-Israel line. First George…
Joseph Massad is the Palestinian scholar of Middle East Studies who was the focus of the campaign against criticism of Israel at Columbia that was led by the David Project a few years back. Word has it that his prolonged…
Avigdor Lieberman is showing off some of his diplomatic chops. From the JTA: At a meeting of his Yisrael Beiteinu Party, Avigdor Lieberman said Israel’s government will work to “formulate the policy compatible with our world view and as the…
Bruce Wolman writes: This Haaretz author (Tzvia Greenfield) is not very enthralled with the “universalist left”– On the other side stands the universalist left, which is uncomfortable with the Jewish identity of the Israeli state. Too many in that camp…