I keep talking about Sheldon Adelson, America’s third-richest man, whose pro-Israel activities the Times all but ignored last week. Turns out his foundation shells out for a birthright-style happy tour of Israel, this one for Harvard law students that some…
says Diane Ralph, who has started an organization called the Alliance of Concerned Jewish Canadians to take on the lobby in Canada. Ralph reports the same glasnost we are seeing here: “The floodgates have opened,” Ralph says in a telephone…
Here is another photo from Hebron, showing a lane in the old city. Take note of the netting over the lane. Reports M.J. Rosenberg of the Israel Policy Forum: But the most striking thing is the steel mesh screens that…
On his recent trip to Israel and Palestine, Christopher Varley visited the religious settlement that’s taken over Hebron, the second largest city in the West Bank, cordoning off its old downtown and forcing out the Arabs. Varley went, as I…
I got about 60 pages into Aaron David Miller’s book, The Much Too Promised Land, a couple weeks back and registered displeasure. The next 40 pages aren’t an improvement. His book makes the claim that the close relationship between Israel…
The other day, Elisabeth Bumiller, a fine reporter, used the n-word on the front page of the Times, writing of neoconservative influence on McCain. Yesterday I saw her on MSNBC, speaking about neoconservatism like it was a dirty word. And…
According to the BBC, Richard Falk, who is to be the U.N.’s next special investigator for human rights in the Palestinian territories, has compared Israeli actions in Palestinian territories to Nazi actions–and then refused to retract the comparison. Professor Falk…
The other day I praised Jerrold Nadler–cause he’s a smart guy who voted against the Iraq War. But along with Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Nadler has lately sponsored useless AIPAC-type legislation to recognize the Jewish refugees from Arab countries after ’48: When…
Hurray for the Times. On Tuesday it carried a profile of John McCain’s friend, the Rev. John Hagee, that pointed up his maximalist position re the West Bank as Israeli territory forever and quoted Rabbi Eric Yoffie, the head of…