Joel Kovel is an old lefty–or anyway, he was wearing a green corduroy jacket at the Brecht Forum last night– and he insists on a central argument of this blog: that the neocons pushed the Iraq war out of a…
Last night at the Brecht Forum, I heard Joel Kovel, author of Overcoming Zionism, and this morning I need to shout that There is light coming into Americans’ lives on this issue. Everything I’ve said on this blog, about “The…
Jeffrey Goldberg has done the good service of noting several major pieces about Israel/Zionism in the Atlantic prior to his own this month. He warns us that one shouldn’t regard these pieces as prophetic. But at least one is–this one…
My post about Masa raised the dual-loyalty issue, and this seemed a good time to repeat myself and offer a number of instances in which the issue has come to my attention in the last year or so. Here goes:…
Haaretz reports that Bibi Netanyahu told an audience at Bar Ilan University: “We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq,” Ma’ariv quoted the former prime…
I’ve long contended that a war between the neocons and the progressives inside the Jewish community is necessary for American Jewry to recover from Iraq–to understand the ways that neoconservative support for Israel led to planning what (predictably) turned out…
We don’t know Barack Obama, so his comments in S.F. about bitter working people are highly revealing. He’s an intellectual, a progressive, and yes probably an arrogant elitist, too. Not a bad mix. For the last eight years we’ve had…
God bless Al-Jazeera for airing a debate between two Americans that would never take place on American television: John J. Mearsheimer and Norman G. Finkelstein dispute the question, Was Israel’s security a motivator of the Iraq war? Nay, said Finkelstein….
Most of you know about the Diveroli case, in which a 21-year-old Florida kid gota $300-million arms contract with the Defense Department and proceeded to supply defective arms to Afghanistan. After the wonderful Times investigation was published in March, Henry…