Report on NY tv: Many pro-Israeli demonstrations have been held over the last few days, but on Wednesday night there was something different — a pro-Palestinian demonstration. Both sides see this as a simple struggle when it is anything but….
Report on a rally for Israel in Washington, filed by non-Zio Brad Brooks-Rubin: Today I saw hundreds of pre-teen and teenage kids cheering and stomping at the talk of raining down vengeance on other people. What I saw was person…
Nonzionism on the march. Here’s an international group of Jews calling on Israeli soldiers to stop “crimes against humanity” and atrocities. An important communal note is struck: that Jews everywhere are accountable: This criminal activity does nothing to advance the…
On Italian Yahoo. These young keffiyeh Jews are LA Jews for Peace, and staged a demo outside the Israeli consulate there today. Fabulous poster, huh? And check out the iconic masks of Palestinian suffering… I feel like young Jews are…
The smooth Englishman on Al-Jazeera to whom I referred this morning is Shihab Rattansi, formerly of CNN, and a credit to the human race. Here is wonderful footage of him this afternoon interviewing first Dennis Kucinich at Congress–and asking him…
The Oakland Education Association, a union representing 2800 teachers, has taken a truly bold stance re Gaza: The OEA unreservedly condemns the murderous Israeli assault on Gaza, their deliberate targeting of the civilian population, including schools and hospitals, and Israel’s…
If you’re an idiot but pro-Israel, you can get a paid platform. If you’re sharply critical of Israel, it is extremely difficult to get paid to express those views. (Name me all the anti-Zionists in media jobs.)
David Bromwich writes: Thomas Friedman’s column today, his first on the bombing and invasion of Gaza, enthusiastically supports Israel’s actions as part of a Middle East strategy that Barak Obama ought to endorse. Friedman writes, he says, on behalf of…
I was cutting firewood right now in the ice when I realized that I’d left the most important part of Dana Goldstein’s post out in my last post. Here it is: As a writer with the last name “Goldstein,” I’ve…