Chas Freeman’s appointment is important in sociological terms. Freeman is the latest heir to a realist tradition in foreign policy that–while Jews have been adherents of it–has a gentile cast because it is associated with opposition to the recognition of…
A good rock has been turned over in the Chas Freeman controversy. On Foreign Policy’s website, one of Freeman’s defenders, Stephen Walt, cracked about one of Freeman’s pursuers, Jeffrey Goldberg, that his idea of public service was moving to Israel…
A shocking story. 1. Emily McNeill graduates from Ithaca College last year and visits the West Bank with a Christian Peacemaker team. She writes a fine, earnest piece for the college’s official magazine about Israeli settler violence against Palestinians. Unchecked…
A sharp friend makes an interesting observation about Roger Cohen’s important op-ed about Iran that appeared in the New York Times on March 1: It goes very far in challenging the MSM and high establishment gospel that Iran is an…
A stunner in the Jerusalem Post, of all places, by the great Larry Derfner, denouncing the Gaza assault and saying that Israel’s actions are “responsible” for the surge in the level of the global “reservoirs” of antisemitism. Has a lot…
In an interview on “Z-word,” a Zionist site run by the American Jewish Committee, the writer Paul Berman rejects the idea that the Gaza assault was disproportionate, and suggests that Israel thereby averted “genocide.” [W]hich of these is the correct…
The great perceiver Jim Lobe says that Elliott Abrams has now declared himself to be the official spokesman for Netanyahu in the U.S., at the Weekly Standard and the CFR. The piece on which Lobe makes this judgment, at the…
The Des Moines Register profiles a non-Zionist: [Jamie] Woodson’s story is the political awakening of a left-leaning liberal. She followed Northern Ireland politics growing up, then South African politics while at Drake University. It wasn’t until 2004 that she first…
Waching C-Span just now, I caught some of Richard Perle’s denial of neoconservatism’s influence in an event at the Nixon Center yesterday and had a few impressions. Perle said that the reason for the Iraq war was the Bush administration’s…