Ynet, a wire service for Israel news, is covering four statements about atrocities against Palestinians by former Israeli soldiers who are now working with the dissident group Breaking the Silence. The Independent in England is also giving a lot of…
Five years ago, Rachel Corrie sent out a group email urging Americans to look on her presence in Gaza as a reflection of the U.S. role in creating Palestinian conditions. “I recognize that as a citizen of the United States…
My post about Masa raised the dual-loyalty issue, and this seemed a good time to repeat myself and offer a number of instances in which the issue has come to my attention in the last year or so. Here goes:…
Haaretz reports that Bibi Netanyahu told an audience at Bar Ilan University: “We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq,” Ma’ariv quoted the former prime…
Obama went to synagogue Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia today to reassure Jews that he’s always been on our side, Rev. Wright notwithstanding. According to the pool report, Robert Wexler, the Florida congressman, opened up for Obama and assured the audience…
When I was at Columbia U. Monday, I stopped at the Hillel for tea and grabbed a brochure for a group called Masa. It’s the professional equivalent of the birthright tour. It offers grants to American kids to do internships…
The Economist has a great package on Israel at 60. It talks plainly about the spiritual crisis the society is in. [T]alks on a Palestinian state look doomed to failure…a separation from the Palestinians may no longer be possible, forcing…
This Mother Jones piece on the new J Street lobby says that its $1.5 million budget is up against a Goliath in $100 million Aipac, whose new headquarters in Washington was funded by Sheldon Adelson, according to unnamed “sources.” Adelson…
Good for NPR; it aired a report on the new “J Street” lobby, an alternative to Aipac, this morning. NPR’s got a lot of liberal Jewish listeners. Will they support J Street? Reporter Michele Keleman interviewed Dennis Ross of WINEP…