on Huffington Post. “I’ve been to Sderot too.” Wonder how long before Dershowitz stirs…
I was in Israel during the Lebanon war and met a guy a lot like me at a bus stop. A smart outsider type, too skinny, he had a beard, intelligent eyes, and wore purple crocs on his feet, under…
Adam Horowitz writes: A protest against the war in Gaza that was planned in Tel Aviv was being prevented by Israeli police not because they were afraid of violence, but because they were afraid that protesters would raise the Palestinian…
Nattering neocons. Commentary is saying that J Street is an anti-Israel organization! Well I love Jeremy Ben-Ami for his courage (even though J Street is backsliding somewhat, inevitably) and Jeremy, we’ve got your back! Who are we? Progressives, realists, the…
Glenn Greenwald has a brilliant piece of analysis of the Rasmussen poll of American attitudes re Gaza. Greenwald points out that while Americans are generally split on sympathy for Israel or Palestine, Democratic voters are lopsidedly critical of Israel over…
Gaza demonstration in Kansas City. 450 people came. They had a mock funeral. Don’t worry, little blond kid’s alright.
Saifedean Ammous writes: This is probably the best quote I have come across on Zionism: “Zionist colonialism inhabits the space between two extinct models — those provided by South Africa and French practice in Algeria. It is not a blend…
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…