Jonathan Chait writes in the New Republic: Israel’s supporters do have a distressing tendency to define their position in maximalist terms. Witness the absurd controversy that surrounded Barack Obama’s banal observation last year that “nobody has suffered more than the…
AC writes: New [Al-Jazeera English] video just in from Gaz — Afghanistan. Afghan villagers are shown in anguish over the killings of relatives by U.S. forces. One government employee who lost five of his family members in the strike is…
I don’t always write in joy, but today I’m writing in joy. Below are two very important emails from Arab correspondents, half a world away from one another, but offering the same important message: Modern communications are building bridges between…
Mohammad of Vancouver is angered by Obama’s decision to continue missile strikes at remote villages in Waziristan section of Pakistan: Sorry to let everyone know, I am breaking my silence on Obama. I’m losing some of my hope on Obama….
Ezra Klein says it’s not dangerous to one’s career to criticize Israel, and cites the case of Stephen Walt, who got a big book contract and now a blog at Foreign Policy. Klein is simply wrong. First of all, Walt,…
in this gonzo piece about the rising antisemitism by Claudia Rosett. Also there’s this odd metaphor: There are many spokes in the anti-Semitic web now being re-woven around the globe, from Saudi Arabia to the Palestinian schools and media that…
My friend Mohammad in Vancouver, who is from Iran, told me he was wearing his Star of David when he went to Norman Finkelstein’s talk last night and asked Finkelstein some hard questions. I asked Mo why he wears the…
Here is a fabulous piece by the great Glenn Greenwald pointing out the insanity of the Israeli/neocon support for the Iraq war as a naked means of guaranteeing Israel’s security. In one horrific quote Greenwald has discovered, Shimon Peres likens…
“Did you hear of Hertz car rental company demanding to have its logo and name scrubbed out of [British] advertising linking it to Israel?” Eva Smagacz writes. “I think the battle to discuss Israel without fear of loss of job…