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…
The great Jeff Halper and Neve Gordon ask in the Chronicle of Higher Ed, Where’s the outrage over the bombing of Islamic University? What about the 450 university officials who denounced the academic boycott of Israel–why aren’t they speaking out…
Here’s Obama’s transition website, where Americans are urged to ask questions. Reports a friend: You will see in the Foreign Policy link, almost all the questions were related to the bombardment of Gaza and in general, asking him to do…
Here’s Adam Horowitz on Huffpo, leaping off from the fact that a Connecticut rabbi wants to excommunicate Bernie Madoff for his damage to the Jews. Ok. But where’s the soul searching over Gaza? The occupation? The neocons?
Adam Horowitz writes: Today the Christian Science Monitor has a piece by Alan Dershowitz defending Israel’s actions. I could respond to his article point by point, but it’s really just the same justifications for collective punishment that he and other…
Here’s the senior senator from Illinois, a good liberal. Email sent out by aide Max Gleischman. And if you think I’m not noticing the Jews, you’d be wrong. DURBIN STATEMENT ON THE SITUATION IN GAZA Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) released…
Today I got an email from a Jewish friend saying No, no, no, (Amy Winehouse style) Obama should not have let a Jew speak for him on Gaza– David Axelrod making the evasive Gaza statement of Sunday. Didn’t know what…
Jack Ross sent along this piece attacking Marty Peretz’s rebarbative response to young Jewish online journalists who are enraged by Gaza. Peretz called the kids selfhating Jews, or words to that effect: “hatred of their inheritance.” (Son, here is your…