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…
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…