I approached a realist oracle this morning to learn what to think about the Harman scandal. Quoth the oracle: There does not seem to me to be anything new in Israel and the lobby trying to quash the indictment of…
Tomorrow is Holocaust Remembrance Day. In his column today, Roger Cohen is saying, Jews need to get “closure” on the victimization narrative in order for Israel to avoid apartheid. In his response to that column, Leonard Fein basically agrees, but…
From The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt: The New York Times described [Saban] as “perhaps the most politically connected mogul in Hollywood, throwing his weight and money around Washington and, increasingly, the world,…
Roger Cohen is walking our road. He has another fine piece in the Times today, on Jewish identity, the Holocaust/victimization, and the hateful occupation. A core contradiction inhabits Israeli policy. While talking about a two-state solution — at least until…
Roger Cohen is walking our road. He has another fine piece in the Times today, on Jewish identity, the Holocaust/victimization, and the hateful occupation. A core contradiction inhabits Israeli policy. While talking about a two-state solution — at least until…
Morris Dees is the head of the Southern Poverty Law Center. The Center made a name for itself in the 70s and 80s fighting for civil rights and human rights for blacks. They’re very concerned with racism. They moved on…
The other day I went on the New Republic site and saw some commenters dismissing me as an assimilationist Jew in connection with criticisms I’d made about the Gaza War. I’m not sure why my Jewish identity should affect the…
I realize I didn’t give readers any idea of the personality of Mats Gilbert, the Norwegian doctor who worked in Gaza for 12 horrific days and now bears witness. Gilbert seems to be around 60 but he has that ageless…
Next week the Tribeca Film Festival will be premiering a film by Yoav Shamir called “Defamation” that is about anti-Semitism and the Anti-Defamation League. The latest Forward suggests that Shamir takes my line: that anti-Semitism is not an important factor…