Memo to the Republican Jewish Coalition: In Karen DeYoung’s bio, Soldier, Colin Powell said that Truman’s Sec’y of State George Marshall–a former Army chief of staff–was his “revered” role model, especially in his principled opposition to Truman’s ’48 decision to…
Another example of the ways that Israel-first talk is politely bleeped out of the American conversation. Joe Klein has a tearjerking column about his late friend David Ifshin, “McCain’s Radical Pal,” who as an anti-Vietnam radical gave a speech in…
I went for a walk with my wife yesterday and bragged about my two last headlines re Ralph Seliger, one about him bitchslapping me, and another saying he was on me like a duck on a junebug. “Poor Ralph,” said…
Ralph Seliger has responded to my lengthy critique of the other day: I was waiting until after Yom Kippur to share something else with you, but now I see there’s this NY Sun business. I only wrote one piece for…
The reason this blog exists (I often say) is because of something one of my siblings said to me in 2003: “I demonstrated against the Vietnam war, but my Jewish newspaper says this war could be good for Israel.” This…
Here’s the latest response to me from Ralph Seliger of Meretz. Note that he refers to the “oppression” of Palestinians. Good on ya mate. I’ll have more to say later. Seliger: You keep on wanting to fight us as Zionists…
Looks like I’m getting to the end of the discussion with Ralph Seliger. Here’s the latest. Seliger answers my latest challenge re Meretz: The late Jeremiah Gutman, a civil liberties attorney and president of Meretz USA when he passed away…
The crisis of Zionism in the United States–and I think actually the end of Zionism as an invigorating ideology for the next generation of Jews–arises from two big factors: 1, Israel is practicing apartheid in the West Bank, as is…
Ralph Seliger is irritated at me for not looking at the Meretz USA site to see what progressive Zionists stand for. He’s right. Here’s a statement from the Meretz site, supporting the amazing Israeli soldiers group, Breaking the Silence, on…