The greatest newspaper in the world, Haaretz, reports that Malcolm Hoenlein, the head of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, said in Jerusalem that he is concerned by all the calls for “change” in the U.S. presidential campaign….
Breaking the Silence’s exhibit of soldiers’ photos from the occupation is at Penn this week, going to Harvard next week. I gather the great Yehuda Shaul was on C-Span last night. Haven’t watched this myself yet, but here’s the link….
Walt and Mearsheimer’s book is embroiled in a power struggle. They were trying to be scholars. But their work is being dismissed because it has political consequences; it empowers Israel’s critics here. In an interview published in Haaretz today, macher…
Andrew Zitcer is the cultural assets manager at the University of Pennsylvania. A big job. He is responsible for the Rotunda, a beautiful historic facility at the school. Having founded a progressive synagogue with his wife, Zitcer has now hosted…
This past weekend I spent some time with my brother-in-law, a music lover who lives in Philadelphia. He told me of the pleasure he gets from concerts at the new Kimmel Center and, for chamber music, the Perelman Theater. I…
It it indisputable that Walt and Mearsheimer and Jimmy Carter have had a great effect: it is impossible to have a discussion about Israel/Palestine in respectable intellectual circles without being conscious that at any moment someone is likely to start…
On Google earth, Palestinians labelled a town north of Haifa, Kiryat Yam, as being the site of an Arab village whose residents were forced to leave in ’48. The Israeli town is threatening all sorts of action, saying there were…
More on Freedom’s Watch, the pro-war group with an unspoken Israel agenda that mouthpiece Ari Fleischer warns may spend $250 million this election cycle so as to be the moveon.org of the right: –From mediatransparency: “The idea for Freedom’s Watch…
I just quoted Tony Judt’s piece on the uses of the Holocaust in the NYRB, let me do it again: Students today do not need to be reminded of the genocide of the Jews, the historical consequences of anti-Semitism, or…