Wait till progressive Democrats feast on him in the 2010 primary. Who wants this guy? The newly-minted Democratic Senator is speaking at a conference on “radical Islam” organized by the Middle East Forum, Daniel Pipes’s group, which has continually stereotyped…
Jack Ross responds to Robert Kaplan’s suggestion that Iraq was Nazi Germany, and so we could not appease it. When considering the idea that Israel will be “the new Czechoslovakia”, we must remember that Czechoslovakia, like Israel, was a state…
Last night we had a great anonymous report on Saad Eddin Ibrahim’s appearance at Harvard. Well, Rob Browne (rbguy at dailykos) reports that Ibrahim will be at the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Commitee’s national convention in June, participating in a panel with…
Egyptian sociologist and human-rights activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim, who is teaching in the U.S. rather than doing jail time in Egypt, spoke at Harvard, where he is a visiting fellow, the other day. I’m told: Saad said that the Israel…
Gershon Baskin of Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information, in the JPost: There is almost nothing in Israeli and Palestinian text books that teaches the students something objective or positive about the people they are in conflict with and with…
Bernard-Henri Levy on Huffington Post: For the honor and the salvation of those still in Rwanda and Darfur, in solidarity with the homosexuals hanged in Tehran or imprisoned in Cuba, for the love of newlyweds burned alive in Afghanistan or…
By James North Several hundred people packed into the Cowin Auditorium at Columbia’s Teachers College last night, and nearly all of them stayed more than 2 hours for an intriguing debate about what is actually happening in Darfur and what…
From the Angry Arab, As’ad AbuKhalil: A decent American reader wrote me expressing his “resentment and disapproval” toward the my decision to post a hate mail that I have received from an American reader. I should say clearly that most…
Oh me of little influence– I saw the significance of Trita Parsi’s book Treacherous Alliance 18 months ago. Well Laura Rozen at Foreign Policy says that the book’s sales have spiked lately because of Roger Cohen’s superb endorsement in the…