Here’s the State Department’s report to Congress last year on global anti-semitism. Nice cover, sort of neo-expressionist. On page 33, the report says that it is anti-Semitic to ascribe policy-making to a “pro-Israel lobby” or a “Zionist lobby,” because that’s…
Last night I posted an LA Times piece called “What Is Anti-Semitism?” that accepts a Daniel Jonah Goldhagen test of anti-Semitism: Does the speaker harp on Israel’s faults and not consider other countries’ faults? (I wonder if Goldhagen even thinks…
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…
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…