I’ve often written that the neoconservatives became far less transparent about their devotion to Israel once they attained power. It was one thing to write as Jewish intellectuals about Middle East policy in books and little magazines in the 1970s,…
Did I say nice stuff about Mike Huckabee? Please forget it. What follows is an exchange he had with Wolf Blitzer on CNN a few weeks back (I can’t make the link work, so I’m not including it) in which…
My friend Garrett Eisler informs me that film director Mike Leigh’s new play, Two Thousand Years, which has sold out in London, has come to off-Broadway, and is all about stuff I talk about on this blog: Jewish identity around…
There are two ways that supporters of Israel have so far successfully limited the discussion about their influence on American policy. One is by saying the critics are antisemites. Scary. I don’t want to be an antisemite! The other is…
Over the next couple days I’m going to write about an event that took place at Yivo, the Institute for Jewish research, 16 months ago, in Sept. 2006, when at Yivo board member Marty Peretz’s impetus, a group of journalists…
This is funny. Lev Leviev, the Russian-born Israeli diamond boss who has funded settlements in the West Bank and a fancy diamond store on Madison Avenue in New York, has boasted in a Russian Jewish publication that he gives money…
Only in Ha’aretz: [L]ast Friday, [Mustafa] Barghouti, with hundreds of Palestinian activists and a hundred Israelis, took part in a demonstration against Road 443, which is blocked to Palestinians. Did you know about Road 443? Should you? Why isn’t it…
In 1991 President George H.W. Bush tried to stop Israeli settlements by linking American loan guarantees to the Jewish state with a freeze on the settlements. Pro-Israel groups in this country went haywire, and Bush backed down, and famously complained…
Today Israeli P.M. Olmert said that the “outpost” settlements in the West Bank are a “disgrace.” This after our president, George Bush, said the other day that these settlements “ought to go.” It shows 1, how powerful America is. If…