Mohammad writes from Vancouver: I cried all the way in the bus to school. I cried all the way in a lecture on Matisse by Serge Guilbaut, scholar of modernism. I cried while I paid for my Norman Finklestein tickets…
This is really the only argument anyone needs. A realist one. The onslaught is raising Hamas’s Q-rating in Cairo: But in interviews in Cairo with wounded supporters of the Islamist militia, considered a terrorist organization by Israel and the United…
Here are the reasons to do it: –AIPAC’s annual policy conference is a feast of rightwing Zionist ideas, and many interesting Jewish ideas too. Inviting Walt and Mearsheimer, scholars of American Jewish history, would make it even more of a…
lives and reflect the thought that Mohammad sends me from Canada: Words cannot describe how I feel today for the civilians in Gaza. They should call today the Black Thursday. Peace From these moments when we honor Gazan humanity, we…
a startling piece of reporting by Charles Levinson in the Wall Street Journal–a hideous bookend to Max Blumenthal’s bravura reporting for alternet. How long a chapter is this in the history of my tribe? When do we get to turn…
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…
The AP reports that Obama ate dinner Tuesday night, and surely nodded his head alot, at George Will’s house. Who was there? David Brooks, William Kristol, Charles Krauthammer. Two fullblown neocons, one merely neoconnish, all tragically wrong on Iraq, all…
Osama bin Laden’s threatening statement yesterday only reinforces the awareness we all have that an aching grievance undealt-with invites extremist response. Tim McVeigh was executed, yes, but even the federal government understood that he acted in part because of a…
This made my day: the 10 Jews who chained themselves across the driveway of the Israeli consulate in L.A. as 50 others demonstrated. This is huge. We’re with you brothers and sisters, here on the east coast–like a tree that…