In an MLK speech today in Minneapolis, Colin Powell emphasized Obama’s Muslim roots, when he imagined a living Martin Luther King Jr. being at the Capitol tomorrow “as Barack Hussein Obama took the oath of office.” It was reminiscent of…
Steve Walt walks the cat back from the Gaza disaster to show how many of Israel’s strategic decisions in the 50 years since Suez have been boneheaded. Excerpts: Israel’s strategic judgment seems to have declined steadily since the 1970s –…
The Opinionator blog at the NY Times has defended the newspaper’s hasbara tagteam of Goldberg and Friedman (when you want even more diversity, you get to read Bill Kristol) by singling out a post here that attacked the pair and…
Today when we are reading universalist Jewish voices like Avnery and Levy to lift ourselves from despair at the grim scenes in the Middle East, a friend sent along this passage from A Passage to India, the 1924 classic of…
It’s happening in England. British Jews have been attacked for expressing support for Palestinians suffering under Israeli military strikes in Gaza. Police confirmed yesterday that they have provided protection to a number of people believed to be victims of UK-based…
is to boycott Israeli goods and institutions, a group of 540 Israelis says in an appeal to the rest of the world. Birmingham (England), Athens (Greece), and Cambridge (MA) are in the van! BDS. Boycott, divestment, sanctions…
From the Irish Times: John Ging is an ex-Army officer who worked in Rwanda during the genocide and was in the Balkans when ethnic cleansing took place. As one of the UN’s main men on the ground in Gaza, he…
I insist that Gaza is the Elian Gonzalez moment: that moment in the life of a lobby when its selfish and repulsive motivations/actions are revealed to the broader public, and they shake their heads and distance themselves. Gaza is showing…
MJ Rosenberg writes of the Foxman-Moyers exchange of letters: Foxman says that by criticizing the war, Moyers demonstrates “moral equivalency, racism, historical revisionism, and indifference to terrorism….” …Moyers is just lucky he is not some lesser figure. Someone other than…