A friend writes: The incident you reported, of the Israelis attacking and boarding the Spirit of Humanity en route to Gaza, carries a strangely powerful resonance against the incident of the ship Exodus 1947–the British refusal of refugees on that…
A couple months back at the 92d Street Y, someone on a panel said that Bernie Madoff could have happened to any community. I mocked the comment at the time because it was willful indifference (on the part of a…
I frequently criticize the Washington Post editorial page here for providing a night refuge (as Herzl said of Uganda) for the neoconservatives as they flee the progressive pogroms. Well yesterday the Post distinguished itself head-and-shoulders with a superb op-ed by…
Fat’s in the fire. Michael Goldfarb: just in case you think [Andrew] Sullivan might not necessarily be using the term neocon as a substitute for Zionist, he helpfully clears up any confusion by referring to the paper’s op-ed page as…
Kabobfest (from whom I’m stealing most of my material tonight) says that David Gregory revealed himself as a “shameless Zionist” on “Meet the Press Sunday,” cutting off Vice President Joe Biden in order to challenge the administration for putting all…
From Scott McConnell: A Dallas judge has meted out heavy sentences to five Arab American men, associated with the Holy Land Foundation, for funneling $12 million to Hamas, designated by the US government as a terror organization. The defendants maintained…
Part Two from Max Blumenthal focuses on the Israeli settlement enterprise in the West Bank (Part One is here). He visits the Balata refugee camp in Nablus and the Israeli settlement Ariel – the juxtaposition speaks for itself – and…
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…
I worked outside today and had the computer off for six hours, and the whole time I worried that people were going to say I was anti-Semitic for this post on Jews and money. I’d talked about the issue on…