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…
Throw a bone, a big one, to the Israel lobby. It looks like Dennis Ross is going to be handling the Iran portfolio under Hillary Clinton. This picture is his other portfolio: it shows Ross presenting the report of the…
Dana Milbank reports that Richard Perle is denying that he is a neocon and that neocons had any influence. Perle states, to guffaws and rage, that the power of neoconservatism is a conspiracy theory believed by 50 million people. (Q:…
A number of folks have sent me the Times piece about the Caryl Churchill play on Gaza that the New York Theatre Workshop is thinking of staging, 3 years after it cancelled the Rachel Corrie production and created an uproar….
Dan Drezner at Foreign Policy says I twisted his words when I said that he is “deceiving the public about the power of the Israel lobby.” He dares me to back up my accusation, also to follow thru on my…
Congressman Paul Hodes says he’ll run for the Senate seat now held by scapegrace Judd Gregg. JTA reports Hodes is Jewish, and kosher on the issue: He also spoke about his first trip to Israel, in 2007: Hodes says his…
[Photo by AnomalousNYC from a demonstration in Union Square in New York in July 2006 during the Lebanon war that the Israeli “left,” Meretz and Labor, supported] Today’s Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday. Lincoln’s achievement was chiefly political: he took a…
Chicago Friends of Israel, a Zionist group at the University of Chicago, has scheduled an open meeting with school administrators at the school chapel next Wednesday over Gaza. The title of the event is “An Open Meeting to Discuss Issues…