Tonight on “Hardball,” former Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee, a Republican, said he was for Obama because he was concerned about our “foreign entanglements.” And in this sense he was a true “conservative,” he said. Chris Matthews said, Hear hear….
Shlomo Ben-Ami is a former Foreign Minister of Israel and a scholar. Today he spoke on the Upper East side to a crowded hall and said that if Israel does not come up with the general agreement envisioned at Annapolis…
On her recent visit to the Jewish state, the Jerusalem Post asked Myra Kraft, a leader in American Jewish philanthropy to Israel and the wife of Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, how she would feel about…
Mikhael Manekin of Breaking the Silence has written to say that the Harvard Hillel director’s statement that IDF soldiers were to accompany all visitors to the exhibit at Harvard of photos from the occupation is not true. We would never…
The story continues: supporters of Israel are rising against Obama, there is a major push this week to destroy his candidacy. Today’s Washington Post reports on a debate yesterday arranged by United Jewish Committees in D.C. among Jewish advocates for…
I am a big fan of Breaking the Silence, the Israeli veterans group which has documented the ways that soldiers serving the occupation are broken down morally and end up doing horrible things. (Demonstrating the principle that occupations will always…
I asked Jerome Slater, the author of a groundbreaking paper on the ways in which the Times has failed to inform Americans of the human right crisis in Palestine, to respond to my post this a.m. on Anthony Lewis, the…
In rereading Norman Finkelstein’s book, Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, I noticed that in the furor that occured in the mid-80s over the false issue of Whether there were even Palestinians in Palestine when Israel was born, an…
I don’t think I got it right about what is happening in Australia; I’m going to take another crack at it. And I thank the commenters who corrected me. Last Wednesday, a group called Al-Nakba ran a large newspaper ad…