Jeff Blankfort calls this Jewish McCarthyism, and I’m hard pressed to deny it. After Gaza–yes, Gaza changed everything–a Bay Area pro-Israel guy called Jim Sinkinson made a collection of angry letters re Israel published in the Berkeley Daily Planet and…
Michael Scheuer at antiwar.com, reports on a debate at Georgetown University last week hosted by the Doha Foundation. Scheuer and Avraham Burg argued for the U.S. to finally get tough on Israel, and Alan Dershowitz and Dore Gold arguing agin…
Ira Katznelson’s lecture at Columbia the other night on the expulsion of Jews from England has prompted my friend Mark, who is half-Polish, to reflect on anti-Semitism in Poland. I’ve done a fair amount of reading, although haphazardly, in this…
Good news. The American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee has apparently filed federal complaints against the tax-free status of “charities” raising money for the colonists of the West Bank. An ADC spokesman tells me that they’re not discussing their investigation right now,…
One of my new themes is that many Americans hate Israel; it is a kind of groundswell. I don’t say this is good energy, it has a sometimes reactionary component. But it must be dealt with politically. Here are two…
in this snaky manner an hour ago or so: This article supersedes an article published earlier this week on Norway which contained inaccuracies, and has been withdrawn. David Horovitz, where is the apology? And just what was inaccurate?
Bruce Wolman of Bethesda, MD, lived in Norway for more than 20 years. He reads the Norwegian press in Norwegian and offers the following exclusive report: According to NTB, the Norwegian wire service, Norway’s Finance Minister and Socialist Left party…
Columbia had its semi-annual University Lecture last night: history professor Ira Katznelson’s thoughts on tolerance and liberalism, using the example of the history of Jews in England, from their expulsion in the 1200s to their readmission in the 1650s to…