An astonishing photo album of destruction to Palestinians’ homes in Gaza at Norm Finkelstein’s site. Many of the homes belong to people of some wealth, bringing it home a little bit more… And at Human Rights Watch, a powerful video…
I’m keeping a catalogue of answers to the Dershofoxmanitz question, Why do we single out Israel amid the sea of man’s inhumanity to man? Here’s Julian Kossoff in the Telegraph, with another good answer: the cynosure answer, Israel/Palestine is at…
Rabbi Brant Rosen is one of the heroes of this site, for his courageous condemnation of Gaza. Today he demonstrates further intellectual leadership by examining the Jewish dismissal of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions as a tool to change Israel’s policies–…
Jim Sleeper at TPM doesn’t like what I wrote earlier about Looking for Gandhi in Palestine: The blogger Phil Weiss, for example, has barricaded himself into an intellectual Masada that leaves no option I can find short of massive dispossession…
Bruce Wolman writes: “Norwegian Jews disagree with The Jerusalem Post,” blazed the headline of the Norwegian paper Dagbladet in its most commented-upon article today. For the third day the Norwegian media provided ongoing coverage of an Israeli-Norwegian spat. Surveying the…
Someone named Vita Wolinsky was deeply offended by the Oliphant cartoon depicting Israel as a goosestepping fascist in Gaza. She said she found the cartoon through this page on the Times website and was cancelling her family’s subscription to the…
A few comments about Jeffrey Goldberg’s interview with Bibi Netanyahu yesterday. –Looking thru his book Prisoners, I was freshly irritated by Goldberg’s line near the end of the book that he and his Palestinian counterpart in his story are “two…
I don’t like the Where’s the Palestinian Gandhi? talk in part because it’s so disingenuous, in a highminded Monty-Pythonish way. If the analogy holds, and Israel is India under the Raj, well darling, this must be England, and then why…
Good news. The American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee has apparently filed federal complaints against the tax-free status of “charities” raising money for the colonists of the West Bank. An ADC spokesman tells me that they’re not discussing their investigation right now,…