I just quoted Tony Judt’s piece on the uses of the Holocaust in the NYRB, let me do it again: Students today do not need to be reminded of the genocide of the Jews, the historical consequences of anti-Semitism, or…
Here is Mike Huckabee, writing in the Jerusalem Post all about the Holocaust. He says he has visited Israel from one end to the other and that when his daughter went to Yad Vashem and said, “How did people let…
A couple of readers have pointed out that the IDF has suspended the soldiers who exposed their buttocks to Palestinian shepherds outside of Hebron. Good for the Israelis. Though I wonder how many other incidents of this character take place…
One of my themes on this blog is that our policymaking in the Mideast will stay broken until Jews have the courage to openly describe and, if they need to, challenge the construction of Jewish identity. The problem with the…
Here is a cool memorandum written by Richard Nixon in ’69, to his Secy of State William Rogers and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger. It was sent along to me by scholar Roland Popp, who dug it up in the…
A smart reader from Virginia has pointed out that my “shock” yesterday over the statement in a Condi Rice biography that the war was “promoted” to help Israel is callow. Marjorie Wheeler-Barclay writes: I agree that the war was not…
Here is Michael Lerner, on why Obama’s Israel straddle is going to give him a political hernia: In recent days, we at Tikkun magazine have had hundreds of emails from young Jews distraught at the television images of tens of…
Speaking of how our Israel policy is made, here is an excerpt from an interview by an Israeli TV reporter of Sec’y of State Condoleezza Rice two weeks ago. What is remarkable in this interview is that Gil Tamary, the…
A friend just got the latest YIVO bulletin, which is not available at the Yiddish institute’s website, and reports the following: It includes a full page diatribe against Walt-Mearsheimer that concludes that W and M “presented a one-sided version of…