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…
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…
A beautiful statement by Brit Tony Klug. And astonishing that it has a hopeful ending (read it) after this beginning: When I was young, I learned about the quintessential Jewish values of justice, peace and truth from the distinguished rabbis…
Yakov writes: NY Times editorial today. Notice: “Already more than 1,000 Palestinians have died in the densely populated Gaza Strip” rather than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed.
A lobbyist friend of mine commented on the comparison between Gaza and Fallujah. He pointed out that while there are many similarities, at least in Fallujah Iraqis could escape, in Gaza the Palestinians have no where to go.