At a time when the American Jewish community is staggered and lost, and starting to question the sagacious leadership of Jeffrey Goldberg, Marty Peretz, and Michael Oren, the Times runs a horrifyingly ethnocentric piece by Israeli military historian Benny Morris,…
I notice that Ethan Bronner’s coverage of Gaza in the Times continues to be cautious. He balances attacks on Islamic University with the threats to Israelis in the Negev. The most vivid moments in this story are anti-Hamas. The execution…
The Israeli navy this morning attacked and crippled The Dignity, a Free Gaza boat on a mission of mercy to besieged Gaza, in international waters. Former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is aboard (just a few years after the Israel lobby rammed…
It’s finally time to get that Twitter account. According to the JTA the Israeli Consulate will hold a public press conference via Twitter: In what may be a first for any government the world over, the Consulate General of Israel…
A Muslim friend writes from an Ivy League university: “I was chatting with a security guard at my dorm. The talk was about India/Pakistan/Afghanistan. Then he looked at me and said ‘What do we do about Israel?’ I think people…
I tell you: this is the anti-67 war. It will unrally American Jewry and make them wake up to what Zionism has built in the Middle East. Brit Tzedek has failed the test, not surprisingly: its statement on the slaughter…
Lynn Pollack is a board member of “Jewish Voice for Peace,” who lives in Obamaland, Chicago. She wrote this piece Latkes and Laments, and kindly shared it with Adam Horowitz: My husband and I offered to host the annual Jewish…
Dan Fleshler, who knows the progressive Zionist world as much as anyone, has an amazing post in which he imagines the conversation between an American Jewish leader who is trying to spin Gaza, and an Israeli consulate official. The importance…
Nir Rosen unloads in the Guardian, of course, on Israel’s state-sponsored terrorism. My question: Can anyone show me a piece in a mainstream American publication by an anti-Zionist Jew? A Zionist Israel is not a viable long-term project and Israeli…