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…
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…