Unbelievable that Walt and Mearsheimer have been banned from speaking in Chicago. Again proving the profs’ argument about the strength of the Israel lobby. Where is Alan Dershowitz? Even he ought to decry this censorship, which is only forcing the…
I’ve signed a petition, organized by Richard Silverstein of Tikkun Olam and Dan Fleshler of Realisticdove , to protest the bill in the Israeli Knesset that would deny Arabs a right to lease land owned by the Jewish National Fund,…
On Tony Karon’s blog, Saif Ammous offers the following rundown on human rights in the Occupied Territories (Take note, Amnesty International…): …an observer will find an illegal Israeli occupation that has been festering for 40 years, combined with illegal ethnically-exclusive…
As indicated below, last Sunday I went to the Church of the Messiah, the Episcopalian Church in Woods Hole, MA, to hear Joshua Rubenstein of Amnesty International. Rubenstein had been invited by a local study group on Middle East issues…
Here is a shocking speech made by Sen. Joe Lieberman last week to the new Israel lobby group: Christians United For Israel. Shocking because it is so filled with religious talk about the Biblical covenant between God and the Jews….
Praise is due The New Yorker this week for publishing a thorough, thoughtful piece of reporting called “The Apostate,” about Avram Burg, the former speaker of the Knesset who has shocked Israel by coming out as an anti-Zionist. The piece,…
Justin Elliott graduated from Brown this year. His last paper in college was about the debate over Zionism that “flared up” in the pages of the New York Times before the birth of Israel. I append the full paper, which…
In the latest New Republic the Israeli historian Benny Morris raises my favorite issue, dual loyalty, this time with respect to Israeli Arabs. In rejecting author Tom Segev’s likening of the Arab minority in Israel to blacks in the U.S….
I’m reading a surprisingly-good book, The Vanishing American Jew, by Alan M. Dershowitz. Dershowitz can be angry, or mean, but in 1997, when he wrote this book, he had a more open spirit. The book is surprising because Dershowitz and…