I’m in Cairo, about to walk across town to see my president address the Muslim world. I know there’s a lot of cynicism and hopelessness about this speech. Not here. I think my president knows exactly what’s going on. Mr….
It’s Monday night in Egypt. We are in El-Arish, a resort town about 20 minutes from the Gaza border, where we will go first thing tomorrow morning. I’m with a group of 13 activists and humanitarians mostly from New York,…
I walked around Cairo yesterday jetlagged and overwhelmed by cultural difference. The plane takes nearly twice as long to get here as it does to England. We’re hundreds of miles east of Istanbul, and it sure feels like the orient….
James North writes: Mahmood Mamdani surprised me during our recent talk in his office up at Columbia University; he said no one at all from the Darfur solidarity movement has approached him to discuss his just-published Saviors and Survivors, (aside…
The arrests in the synagogue/jihad case in New York are terrifying, of course; and a reminder that anti-Semitism is a live force even in the U.S. Also a reminder that the Palestinian issue is likely to be deeply disruptive in…
A Muslim friend writes: Neoconservatives always spoke of Islam as a monolithic threat from the Middle East to Pakistan, confronting democracies such as Israel and India. The slippery slide they made was from radical Islam to Islam. The Likudniks always…
A Muslim friend writes: Neoconservatives always spoke of Islam as a monolithic threat from the Middle East to Pakistan, confronting democracies such as Israel and India. The slippery slide they made was from radical Islam to Islam. The Likudniks always…
This just in, and it’s good news: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced today that Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) has canceled a scheduled appearance at an “anti-Islam” conference in Washington, D.C., hosted by a right-wing think tank headed by…
Today we’re trying to counter the feverish Zionist obsession with Islamic fundamentalism. Occupation magazine (kibush) publishes a devastating review by Ran Greenstein, a South African, of Benny Morris’s new book, One State, Two States: The very opening words invoke the…