Shaul Magid is an esteemed professor of Jewish studies at Indiana University. The latest Forward contains his review of David Myers’s book, Between Arab and Jew: The Lost Voice of Simon Rawidowicz, which ends with the paragraph below. Magid is…
Great analysis by Steve Walt of the Freeman affair, its chilling effect and the silver lining (Israel lobby was seen fleeing the scene of the crime in a Lexus). Great time-line and reporting of the foreign-policy establishment’s support for Freeman…
This is amazing. A nominee for a high intelligence position bows out of the job under fierce political attack and issues a blistering statement that the Israel lobby is endangering our national security by smearing anybody who disagrees with it…
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…