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…
I was clearing brush for my mother this morning when I realized I have had a more intensely Jewish life in the last couple of days than in years. Two nights ago I was up till 2 a.m. at an…
Peretz at the New Republic: Yes, I know that there is much that they [Palestinians] must accomplish among their [sic] to really become a nation and have a history as a people. But, whether we gloat or weep about these…
I’m proud we were able to publish Bruce Wolman’s fabulous account of the Jerusalem Post’s bogus story on anti-Semitism in Norway yesterday. It drew this comment from Richard Silverstein, who was unable to post it for some reason. We’re workin…
Bruce Wolman, who reads the Norwegian press, offers this important report: It may be difficult for Americans to believe, but a disputed Jerusalem Post article asserting that Norway is rife with anti-Semitism continues to reverberate in the Norwegian media one…
Good headline, huh? And I believe it. Give me a minute, I’ll start up about the Israel lobby too! But let’s be clear, this link, to Alex Stein, who I believe is a Zionist who emigrated to Israel from England,…