I’m beginning to get it. Gaza is producing an explosion under the American skin. The MSM can’t handle it, can’t express it, except at the edges, but the American street is alarmed. And one of the crucial shifts that has…
Yakov sent me this old gem from Jewcy, way back in 2007: “What if the campus Free Tibet club campaigned for divestment from China? Would that be anti-Chinese bigotry?” asked Asaf Shtull-Trauring, a 20-year-old student and conscientious objector from the…
Gaza continues to have a political/cultural effect here. The imbalance between the blogosphere, where Gaza is Guernica, and the mainstream media (They asked for it) becomes more intolerable by the hour. This can’t last. There will come a time, and…
Just trying to get some credit for my coinage of yesteryear. Here’s Reuters trying to read the tea leaves on the mind of the Sphinx in chief. Give up now. You’ll never know what he thinks on something, till he…
This is becoming a colloquium. Jeffrey Blankfort writes: Israel with its attendant Zionist ideology must be viewed as a foreign transplant that has consistently been rejected by its Arab host. Had the colonial settlers been other non-Jewish Europeans with an…
Adam Horowitz has a true back-of-the-envelope description of Zionism. I first heard it when I met Adam last May, in New York. Here’s what he said then and reminded me of today: The Zionist movement, led by European Jews looking…
A lot of new people are coming to this blog– and to leftwing and Arabist sites–because of Gaza. These new readers are outraged by the slaughter and don’t trust the conventional guides. This influx represents a great opportunity for my…
On New Year’s I kept wondering if I’d made a mistake posting about Meet the Press, the fact that four of six participants are Jewish this Sunday, in a discussion of foreign policy. Was I imposing a quota on foreign-policy…
Once again the American press can’t deal with sharp criticism of Israel. Here’s a piece in the Washington Post by Julie Chaitin, an Israeli living in the Negev, who teaches social work. The headline is “Darkness in Qassam-Land.” This war…