A fabulous piece of reporting in the San Francisco Chronicle by Carla Marinucci that underlines everything I’ve said on this blog: Gaza is a crisis of the American Jewish spirit. Just beautiful reporting. Many instances, from Jon Stewart saying that…
More seals bursting. George Bisharat in the Wall Street Journal. As Leon Hadar observes, Next Commentary will be publishing Chomsky. Israel then broke the truce on Nov. 4, raiding the Gaza Strip and killing a Palestinian. Hamas retaliated with rocket…
Seals are being broken all around us. A couple people have told me about startlingly honest statements by Pat Buchanan on MSNBC yesterday re Gaza. Nim Chimpsky offers this report: Pat Buchanan debated neocon Cliff May on Gaza yesterday on…
Jerry Slater has a unique way of looking at the terrible situation in Israel/Palestine, inspired by Jonathan Swift: What if the Situation Were Reversed? He writes: There has been growing outrage at Israel’s attack on Gaza. It is hard to…
Jack Ross writes: Here’s the money quote from the New Republic/Dissent piece on Gaza by just-war theorist Michael Walzer: The commentators and critics using [the word disproportionate] today, however, are not being cautious at all; they are not making any…
My pithy correspondent AC says: Shihab Rattansi of Al-Jazeera English interviews former Israeli UN ambassador Dan Gillerman (who, it must be remembered, deemed Carter a “bigot” with “bloody hands”) with devastating insistence and sarcasm. Gillerman has no crutches left by…
Adam Horowitz (filing from the mid-Atlantic): Both the House (H. Res 34) and Senate (S. Res. 10) bills that just passed supporting the Israeli invasion in lockstep included the phrase, “expresses vigorous support and unwavering commitment to the welfare, security,…
What follows is an exchange of emails at Princeton today over a rally tomorrow at the campus. The exchange is being widely- and anonymously-circulated, so I’m going with it. The first letter is from Princeton Hillel director, Rabbi Julie Roth…