Earlier today I posted a recap of the One State for Palestine/Israel: A Country for All Its Citizens? conference from Nadia Hijab. She noted how the need to save a Jewish state will not inspire devotion to a two-state solution….
Ira Glunts reports: This weekend the Israeli daily, Ma’ariv, published an interview in Hebrew with Professor Ben Zion Netanyahu, the 99-year-old father of the new Israeli prime minister. The elder Netanyahu is known for his outspokenness and extreme right-wing views–and…
James North writes: I remember Mahmood Mamdani from 35 years ago, when he was the most dynamic leader of the newly-organized union of graduate students at Harvard. Today he is a distinguished professor at Columbia, one of our most original…
Nadia Hijab files a report on the One State for Palestine/Israel: A Country for All Its Citizens? conference in her article “The growing belief in a one-state solution.” Hijab was a presenter at the conference and does not consider herself…
Last night I went to hear Rashid Khalidi speak at the Brooklyn Reform synagogue, Beth Elohim. A gorgeous temple, and before giving Khalidi the microphone at the altar, Rabbi Andy Bachman went down the list of groups that had sponsored…
asks Jeff Blankfort… this being a JTA article saying the Pentagon is studying the 2006 Lebanon war for lessons about how to fight non-state actors…
In weeks and months to come I hope to publish more and more from my wife’s young friend who is now in Gaza. She is a Harvard student and works with an NGO. I will be able to give you…
Bruce Wolman writes: Larry Summers is not the only one raking it in from business interests while temporarily out of public service. Tony Blair is also doing well in the ka-ching-ka-ching department. Mind you Blair is not just a retired…