A number of people have asked if I have a recording for the report that Israeli colonist Nadia Matar called for the killing of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas last night during a lecture at the Safra Synagogue on E. 63rd…
A few impressions of being in the company of the settler movement last night in New York: The meeting’s in the basement of a rich stone synagogue. The crowd aren’t rich people, they’re cause people, rough around the edges, a…
Exclusive report from Mondoweiss: In a speech at a New York synagogue Wednesday night, Nadia Matar, a leader of the Israeli settlers’ group “Women in Green,” called for the assassination of Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, as…
Marc Sapir is a doctor in Berkeley. He lately sent out this email to friends (and Jeff Blankfort got Sapir’s permission to pass it along, edited). It bears on the fact that the traditional left is “confounded” by the Israel/Palestine…
The JTA is reporting that Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat is coming to the US to drum up support among American Jews for his plans for the city. He hopes to find Jewish “shareholders” for several special economic zones that will…
The Freeman story is huge. Andrew Sullivan is obviously enraged; here he links Fareed Zakaria’s pretty good interview of Freeman under the headline, “Crackpot… See for yourself: the man too dangerous to be allowed into the US government.” And here…
Scott McConnell explains why he believes Jeffrey Goldberg has a trigger-finger for accusing others of antisemitism: It was probably this , Goldberg’s long review of Steve Walt and John Mearsheimer’s “The Israel Lobby”. Instead of engaging the arguments made by…
Charles Lane in the Washington Post and David Rothkopf on Foreign Policy make the same angry point: the Freeman affair has devolved into a regrettable argument about whether Israel’s supporters in this country have dual loyalties. Lane wants President Obama…
In 2006 Dershowitz accused Walt and Mearsheimer of being antisemites. He wrote that their landmark paper on the Israel lobby, which could only be printed in England, recycled the “blood libel” and other canards and was giving an imprimatur to…