A few years back I had an argument with one of my journalistic mentors, who is Jewish (almost all of ’em were). I was naming Jewish names in power and he bridled. “But are they Jews qua Jews?” Why call…
Everyone who reads this blog knows what a blurb is, right? It’s an endorsement on the back jacket of a book. J.J. Goldberg, editorial director of the Forward, and a kind and thoughtful guy, blurbs Avraham Burg’s important new book,…
This blog comes out of alienation from my own tribe. I was staggered in midlife to find that the people I’d grown up believing were the best/enlightened were as power-hungry and materialistic as anyone else in the U.S. and indifferent…
in that last post with the suggestion that that AIPAC friend of Larry Summers is under some journalistic obligation to declare her religion, Jewish. Yes, too far, bad boy. But I think part of the problem here is that Jewish…
Huffington Post gives a platform to Beth Dozoretz, a member of the AIPAC executive committee who has Israeli gov’t connections and helped deliver the Marc Rich pardon back when, to say the country needs Larry Summers as Obama’s next Treasury…
interview of McCain campaign mouthpiece Michael Goldfarb by Rick Sanchez of CNN in which Goldfarb states that Rashid Khalidi is “anti-semitic” and Sanchez mildly defends Kahlidi. At least Sanchez pounds Goldfarb when he says “we all know” of another person…
A smear on a good man–Khalidi–in the desperate last days of a presidential race is one of those thrilling political events that is supposed to produce spine-tingling rhetoric. Obama didn’t deliver, of course, because he’s tight with the Is lob….
Yesterday I teed off on a New Yorker profile of Hank Greenberg that I felt had provided cover to Greenberg’s Israel-centered views of the Middle East. I don’t keep up on the New Yorker, but a friend sent along the…
Last night I watched Andrew Bacevich on C-Span’s About Books program. (Some of it anyway; I surf.) The most interesting point he made is that the U.S. has to give up its sense of its own exceptionalism. We should be…