Jack Ross responds to expressions of Muslim chauvinism during the flap over the Chris Caldwell…
Somewhat against my expectations, I found Christopher Caldwell’s “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe” extremely…
Here’s David Makovsky at Huffpo on the greatest threat to the west. He and I actually concur on the physical threat. But then Makovsky, whom we exposed yesterday for his pretensions to interpreting the Palestinian mind, gets into his ugga-bugga…
Seham writes: I live in one of the more liberal regions in Northern CA so I’m more familiar with compassionate and well intentioned Orientalism, none of this stabbing business is going on over here. Men that wear Birkenstocks just don’t…
Shocking racism, not directly connnected to anything but exposing deep racism within European society: a 32-year-old Muslim woman is murdered inside a German courtroom by her neighbor. They are there because the neighbor has earlier harassed her as a “terrorist”…
AP says a Conservative Jewish organization will attend annual convention of American Islamic society for first time. Sayyid Syeed remembers an interfaith event several years ago when a Jewish leader went to embrace him, saw someone snapping a photo, then…
Our friend Seham sets us straight: Did you guys come up with some offline pact to not mention Michael Jackson’s passing on your site? Lame. Arabs loved Michael Jackson, they loved him, unapologetically. And my Arabs still haven’t tired of…
Emily Ratner is just back from Gaza, and struggling like me to come to terms emotionally/intellectually/spiritually/Jewishly/humanly with what she saw there. She has a superb piece here about going down into the tunnels (I was too chickenshit myself) and reflections…