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…
One of the electrifying journalistic events of the “war on terror” came in 2004 when Farnaz Fassihi, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal in Baghdad, wrote an email to a colleague, describing how awful life was there. The email…
The core condition of Zionism is the understanding that Jews are unsafe in western societies. Theodor Herzl invented Zionism two centuries ago for this good reason, and that belief underlies Prisoners, by Jeffrey Goldberg, about his decision to move from…
What Bernie Madoff has done for the financial reservoirs of the Modern Orthodox community of Manhattan, the Israel-defenders are doing to genuine concerns about antisemitism, watering them down hopelessly. A friend writes: I’m struck by how younger bloggers like Matt…
I’m in a nice house in the woods in America, land of the free, right now. But this is what I think I would have done, based on my 50 years of reading and awareness of my own temperament: –In…
Is there any diversity in our politics on this issue? I guess not. Al Franken and Norm Coleman, at a pro-Israel rally in Minnesota. Truly depraved. And David Paterson wearing his red hat of solidarity in New York yesterday, in…
Glenn Greenwald has another great piece in Salon attacking the lockstep support for Israel in Congress in the face of massacres. The problem is that the astute Greenwald still has no explanation of why we are experiencing this meltdown in…