A little while ago in New York’s East Village, I met the playwright David Zellnik to talk about the latest with his sweeping historical play: “Ariel Sharon Stands at the Temple Mount and Dreams of Theodor Herzl.” The play offers…
The Nation has scooped the N.Y. Times and Washington Post with a fine piece of reporting on the great Israeli daily, Ha’aretz. Here is the most important paragraph: Gideon Levy says he is less constrained in his punditry than most…
Here is an ugly story about a Florida family denied the right to travel from Israel’s Ben-Gurion airport after they visited the West Bank. Why? They’re Palestinian-American, visiting Palestinian relatives. The family have American passports; but for a couple of…
In the latest Commentary, Hillel Halkin, a New York-born columnist for the Forward who made aliyah after the 6-Day War and who I have pointed out before sees the Bible as a deed to the land of Israel for the…
Some time in the next few days the website israellobbybook.com will be activated–right now it’s a blank–and The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, will be published by FSG. This is a…
In a remarkably-fair piece about Walt and Mearsheimer in the latest New Yorker, the magazine’s editor, David Remnick, summarizes part of the scholars’ argument: Israel and its lobby bear outsized responsibility for persuading the Bush Administration to invade Iraq and,…
With Walt and Mearsheimer’s Israel Lobby book about to burst onto the scene, the poverty of the existing debate over the Israel interest in American politics is demonstrated by the coverage of Freedom’s Watch, the new rightwing group spending millions…
Today’s Chicago Tribune finally covers the censorship of Walt and Mearsheimer at the Global Affairs Council and highlights the shocking fact that Abe Foxman–the denier of Armenian genocide out of concern for the state of Israel– was consulted by the…
In an ad in the Boston Globe, the Anti-Defamation League says the controversy over its nonrecognition of the Armenian genocide in Turkey in ’15-’18 has “nothing to do” with its program of fighting hatred and bigotry. Huh. It goes on…