The Jewish Community Relations Bureau/American Jewish Committee in Kansas City has organized an emergency meeting tomorrow night.The appeal begins on a defensive note: Due to the escalation of Israelâs efforts to reduce the Hamas rocket fire from Gaza, there will…
Now the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s Ami Eden is attacking J Street for having the temerity to suggest that the Israeli attack on Gaza lacked “sanity and moderation” and other supposed crimes. This is a historical battle. Once again, Jewish leadership…
Continuing our survey of the shameful response of Jewish communal leaders to the crisis in Gaza, reader Michael Levin alerts us to the appalling silence of Rabbis for Human Rights – North America. You would think that an organization with…
Americans for Peace Now is for a cease-fire, good for them, but it is making the wrong call in its Gaza statements. It turns over part of its site to Yossi Alpher, an Israeli security expert, who rationalizes everything Israel…
We have been documenting the moral bankruptcy of the Jewish communal leadership in the face of the Israeli onslaught in Gaza. Its good to see that others are stepping up. Check out this “Open Letter From Anti-Zionist Jewish Youth in…
Mishal Al-Johar writes: A lot of people (and I mean a LOT of people) have been using Facebook, Reddit, Digg, Twitter and their blogs to talk about what’s been going on in Gaza. I have been pleasantly surprised to see…
And this was on Huffpo– Absolutely stunning piece in the Independent, by Fares Akram, who, huddled with his pregnant wife and family in Gaza city, and decided not to be on his 48-year-old father’s farm, the closest farm to the…
Andrew Sullivan has a great post on Arabs as human beings, the implicit target of which is actually Jewish ethnocentrism/neoconservatism. He is now justly angry at the McCain campaign for this ideological/religious/ethnic cargo. Again I ask: Where was the discussion…