I think we’re reaching our rendezvous with destiny. There was something of an uprising when the Israeli Foreign Minister showed up, fresh after inking a last MOU (memorandum of understanding) with the compliant Condi. Security guards stood tensely in front…
The Boycott, Divestment, & Sanctions movement against Israel is picking up steam due to the war in Gaza. First, the British telecommunications company FreedomCall “severed all ties” with the Israeli company MobileMax. YNet reported, “The email from FreedomCall said, ‘As…
In a bold move, the American Conservative has put itself forward as the leading critical American journal of the Gaza war. It has printed pieces by Avi Shlaim, Glenn Greenwald, Daniel Levy, and John Mearsheimer. It is hard to call…
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…
Remember when everyone ran around after 9/11 saying, Why do they hate us? Well, are we still innocent? Ibrahim Kalin, an assistant prof at Georgetown, has this answer in a Turkish publication: After the 2009 Gaza massacre, the hawks in…
Turkey’s P.M. is about to meet with Ban Ki-Moon, who was stared down by Olmert yesterday. And thus American intransigence re the slaughter is undermining the authority of the international body.
A banner drop this morning over New York City’s West Side Highway, carried out by members of Jews Against the Occupation/NYC, declared “Jews Say: End Israel’s War on Gaza NOW!” Says the press release: “This action by Jewish New Yorkers…
Here are videos of people at Harvard reading Mahmoud Darwish’s poems last summer after his death. I love America: one of the readers is Darryl Li, a handsome Harvard law student of Asian descent, reading first in Arabic then in…