Nick Goldberg has a great piece in the LA Times on the William I. Robinson case at UC Santa Barbara that basically/secretly comes down on Robinson’s side, his right to pass around an email comparing Israeli human rights abuses with…
More criticism of the New York Times article on Israel’s ongoing strategy to control Jerusalem from an insightful reader in New York who reminds us of the local angle: The New York Times failed to tell its New York readers…
My wife and I went to a party last night. Cocktails–a foreign concept to me, growing up. It was called for 6 and as we drove we listened to All Things Considered. Robert Siegel was discussing political developments with David…
Question: What happens if you cross a chimpanzee and a hippopotamus? Another splendid comic in the Forward by Eli Valley, this one taking off after Abe Foxman and the Anti-Defamation League. There’s a Marc Rich joke in there, and a…
Question: What happens if you cross a chimpanzee and a hippopotamus? Another splendid comic in the Forward by Eli Valley, this one taking off after Abe Foxman and the Anti-Defamation League. There’s a Marc Rich joke in there, and a…
Laura Rozen’s report at Foreign Policy on the Obama-Peres meeting suggests that there are stormclouds on the horizon–“severe nervousness” in Israel over Obama’s signals on Iran and settlements–and, more interesting, a shrewd deployment by Obama of Jewish White House aides…
At the end of the AIPAC policy conference, maybe during Joe Biden’s pandering speech, I sat biting into a napkin trying to keep from crying with a joyful sense of purpose that the conference had given me. This post is…
During his speech to the the AIPAC Policy Conference, Joe Biden told a story about meeting Golda Meir as a young senator in 1973. He said that he was worried about Israel’s future at that time, but Meir comforted him…
I’m running to Washington today, to cover the AIPAC policy conference, but wanted to publish some info I picked up about the case of William I. Robinson, the sociology prof at UC/Santa Barbara who is being investigated for alleged anti-Semitism…