A very strong statement posted on the Progressive Magazine site, by international writers and scholars calling for divestment and boycott ala South Africa, and urging American writers to join up. I see only a few Americans, Amiri Baraka, Ali Abunimah,…
Hamas leader Ismail Haniya, in a letter congratulating Obama on his Inauguration and urging him to rectify the mistakes of the last administration. Also: “we join you in the march toward change, the change that will bring justice for all.”
In their refusal to see what the slaughter of hundreds of Arab civilians has revealed about the foreign country they love, Commentary’s Noah Pollak and Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg have begun calling John Mearsheimer “Sheikh Hassan Mearsheimer.” This kind of namecalling…
Just got a note from a Saudi friend that Norman Finkelstein will be speaking in Bahrain on Monday and Tuesday nights, the 26th and 27th. Monday night at 8 p.m. at the Diplomat Hotel, on “Defeating the Palestinian Peace Offensive:…
Mohammad of Vancouver is angered by Obama’s decision to continue missile strikes at remote villages in Waziristan section of Pakistan: Sorry to let everyone know, I am breaking my silence on Obama. I’m losing some of my hope on Obama….
Amazing that FT gave its imprimatur to this warning: an important piece that Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal published in the Financial Tims today. The one audience of this piece: Obama. [Emphasis Weiss’s] Last week, President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad of Iran wrote…
Today there was a great talk at Harvard’s Belfer Center on the Afghan resistance to the Soviet Union invasion in the 80s. The speaker was the rising Norwegian scholar Thomas Hegghammer. Promo: In the 1980s, thousands of Arabs volunteered to…
I wonder how the pointlessness of the war (Times of London link to the finger-pointing beginning in Israel) fits into Michael Walzer’s just war theory? And what does its pointlessness do for advocates Tom Friedman and Jeffrey Goldberg, who trumpeted…
Here Daniel Pipes senses his own growing irrelevance in the new emphasis (good spot, Pipes) on Obama’s Muslim heritage. Here Pipes digs in his heels as he’s banished: “Like many conservatives, I am dazed that an unknown person with a…