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…
The other night I was talking with a Muslim friend at an elite university, and he said that there was an anti-semitic tinge to some of the statements he hears from friends about the Israel lobby. I asked him to…
Last year my friend Mark and I unmasked the Asia Times columnist “Spengler” as a NY currencies expert named David P. Goldman. A LaRouchie-cum-neocon, Goldman used various masks to write about religious issues. We unmasked him for a simple reason:…
A few weeks back, Dana Goldstein of The American Prospect overcame her reserve about writing about Israel/Palestine because Gaza was so appalling to her; and she called on Jews to raise their voices. Now she’s back. Today in The American…
Howard Jacobson in the New Republic on the new anti-Semitism in England, criticism of Israel post-Gaza: The premise of Seven Jewish Children is a fine piece of fashionable psychobabble that understands Zionism as the collective nervous breakdown of the Jewish…
I missed a stretcher. Yesterday Clark University President John Bassett wrote a letter seeking to justify his censorship of Norman Finkelstein, who had been scheduled to give a speech on campus, and his letter included this statement: What especially exaggerates…