Saint Noam’s MIT lecture was packed, with video feed to the overflow. Described the Gaza attack as the “U.S.-Israel attack on helpless Palestinians” and pointed out that the ramming of the Cynthia McKinney boat went largely unreported while the nation…
Yakov writes: Greenwald is very good on the war “propagandists” Friedman and Goldberg on the Times op-ed page. But one can’t help noticing that this “teach-them-a-lesson” justification for civilian deaths in Gaza appears with some frequency among these advocates, at…
As reported in Ha’aretz the world’s diplomatic corps is beginning to turn on Israel after over two weeks of attacking Gaza. Today, President Evo Morales announced that Bolivia is breaking relations with Israel and he wants the International Criminal Court…
On the day that Israeli human rights organizations are saying the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza has reached 1,000 and the number of wounded 5,000, the New York Times op-ed page unleashed the ‘good cop/bad cop’ routine to justify…
Washington Times, that is. On a day when the New York Times prints dismal orthodoxy from Tom Friedman and Jeffrey Goldberg (and much of Goldberg’s piece had appeared earlier on his blog; so much for the Times policy on no…
From a Financial Times piece on “Al-Jazeera Journalists Become Faces of the Front-Line”: The channel is broadcast in 105 countries, including Israel, where it offers a stark alternative to terrestrial channels. But in the US, partly as a result of…
[A pool in Haifa. Before the Nakba.] My wife has picked up the refrain that I’m a post-Zionist. “You’re a post-Zionist! Let me explain why,” she declares. “Post- means that you’re not engaged in that old energy. Anti- means that…
We got hoaxed last week, a fake announcement from the leading British Jewish org saying it was cancelling a rally for Israel because only a political solution could resolve the problems over there, not violence. Today we got an email…
Steve Walt has a good post on the Friedman piece showing that Tom Friedman is misrepresenting Israeli society as being torn between pragmatic options re the territories, when in fact Israeli government is prey to the radical settler bloc–70,000 settlers…