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…
Eric Breindel, a charismatic neoconservative of considerable influence as the editorial page editor of the New York Post, died in 1998 at age 42. His funeral at the Park Avenue Synagogue was mobbed by socialites and pols alike. Rudy Giuliani,…
Writer Jean-Moise Braitberg has written a letter to Israeli president Shimon Peres demanding that his grandfather’s name be removed from Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. The letter is reported to have been printed first in Le Monde, 10…
Doesn’t it seem that the American press is asleep at the switch on Tuesday’s election in Israel? I’m not seeing much alarm over Netanyahu/Lieberman. The Independent’s Johann Hari says Netanyahu’s elevation would be as great a mistake as Gaza: The…
One of the pleasures of going camping is hanging out with my friend Bill (pseudonym), a writer who’s as critical of Israel as I am. Years ago he told me about his visits to Israel/Palestine and his disgust over the…