Remember when people wanted to lynch the late Edward Said, English professor at Columbia, for throwing a symbolic stone toward Israeli forces from Lebanon in 2000? Well today my old friend and mentor Lucianne Goldberg: published this image of an…
Marc Lynch at Foreign Policy: “Rightly or wrongly, Obama has made the settlement issue a test of his credibility, and if he backs down then all the progress he has made will wash away instantly. That makes this a pivotal…
(Screen shot captured by Justin Elliott) Note that the heroic Iranian woman on the CNN page is about to throw a stone. Have you ever seen coverage of a Palestinian throwing a stone during a protest highlighted so prominently and…
This was inevitable. The Harvard Crimson reports on what the so-far suppressed Iranian revolt means to nuke negotiations. And of course the arrow points one way for an ideologue: History Professor Roy P. Mottahedeh, who specializes in Middle Eastern intellectual…
(Unidentified Israeli activist, arrested last weekend in Safa, the West Bank. Photo by Laura Weisman.) Joseph Dana writes: There is a minority in Israel that is willing to risk life and limb to stand up to the occupation at its…
Got to hand it to Politico’s Josh Gerstein. He has a short piece here on Nixon-era policy struggle, unearthed in National Archives data dump, on how much pressure to put on Israel to sign the Nuclear Non Proliferation pact back…
Muhammad Idrees Ahmad writes: The comments by Gabriel of JSF are based on a strawman argument… The debate is not divided as neatly between those supporting the struggle in the streets of Tehran and others supporting their repression. The struggle…
Gabriel at Jews sans frontieres: It is one thing to defend the Iranian state from outside assault and interference, all necessary and laudable, one thing to recognize the occasional political usefulness of the Iranian state on the world’s stage, which…
Two readers have already passed along Roger Cohen’s startling account of participation in the Tehran protests yesterday, during which Cohen retreats to an alley to escape gassing and barely suppresses his thrill at being part of this democratic history-making. Two…