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…
Another Jew has passed the Gaza test. And the more status you have, the more Karmic bonus points you get. Menschy internationalist Roger Cohen, in the New York Times even allows himself to hint that Zionism is over. He’ll come…
The Burris story stopped being a Blagojevich story when it became a race story. Suddenly a nation that had congratulated itself on ending a color bar in the White House watched an all-white Senate turn a black man out in…
Obama is said to have chosen Dennis Ross, Richard Holbrooke and Richard Haass as his envoys re Iran, Afghanistan/Pakistan, and Israel/Palestine respectively. And the Israel lobby is just another lobby. It is not that some Jews can’t be fairminded. And…
In Haaretz. Thanks to Richard Witty for tip. Yes antisemitism is real. So is anti-Zionism. Separate the strands, Jews, don’t recruit me in your holy war, let my people go.
I need to file this datum before it leaves my gray matter for the shores of Tripoli. The other day on Hardball, they were talking about the biggest general election moments, and Howard Fineman of Newsweek said the biggest moment…