Here’s a shocker. On Saturday Adalah NY held another protest outside Leviev, the diamond store owned by a proponent of the settlements, and Alan Dershowitz stopped and challenged the protesters to come in, then emerged from the store brandishing his…
The other night I went to the Israel Policy Forum’s annual leadership event at the Grand Hyatt in New York, and I’m going to blog about a number of things that happened there, including my own conversion to a two-state…
Help rescue American Jewry! Tomorrow at 1 p.m., at 63d and Madison, there will be another protest at Leviev, the fancy diamond mart lately opened by Lev Leviev, a leading backer of the illegal settlers’ movement in Palestine. Adalah-N.Y., the…
Today’s Haaretz features an interview with Ehud Olmert datelined the U.S. in which the P.M. says that Israel must allow a two-state solution now or face a “South-African style struggle for equal voting rights” that will alienate American Jewish groups….
A couple weeks back, I criticized Americans for Peace Now for remaining on the executive board of AIPAC; and Dan Fleshler responded to me on his blog, in a post called “Are Pro-Israel doves part of the ‘lobby’?” Weiss does…
More than five years ago, Adam Shatz, then the Nation magazine’s literary editor, wrote an important piece about the left’s response to 9/11. One of Shatz’s targets was Dissent magazine liberals who were pushing for war in Iraq. For them,…
A friend has passed along Norman Pearlstine’s piece in WSJ urging Michael Mukasey to drop the AIPAC case. Pearlstine argues that the lobbyists were performing routine business: there have been few prosecutions of government leakers for espionage in recent decades…
The endorsement by Pat Robertson of pro-abortion candidate Rudy Giuliani this week is widely seen as a sign that the evangelical Christian vote, which has scared the bejesus out of a lot of people in blue states for the last…
When I visited Bethlehem a year back, I got the view north back to Jerusalem–beyond the all-but-encircling concrete barrier–of a sugarloaf of a hill with a gleaming settlement on it. Har Homa was built in the late ’90s, and its…