Jewish history in the making, which way will it go? To the arms of the lobby, or the humanists? From JWeekly in the Bay Area: Of the 37 films with ties to Israel in this year’s San Francisco Jewish Film…
Israel’s Foreign Ministry wants to spend $150,000 to plant shills on websites around the world to fight Israel’s bad image. Happily, Rona Kuperboim at Ynet is agin it, for the right reasons, calls it thought-police: Foreign Ministry officials are fighting…
Helena Cobban asked in an email yesterday– apropos of the report that Netanyahu has called powerful Jewish aides to Obama “self-hating Jews”–which is worse: to be called an anti-Semite or a self-hating Jew? Which calumny is more effective in preventing…
Last night we did a post on the Israel Project’s adoption of the term “ethnic cleansing” as a talking point for American Jews in opposing the removal of settlements from the West Bank. Repulsive. Well Newsweek yesterday published the Israel…
J Street’s Isaac Luria called out the Israel Project today: Does likening the dismantling of illegal settlements in occupied territories – a policy supported by the U.S. for several administrations and enacted by the Ariel Sharon and Menachem Begin governments…
J Street is driving the wedge in the Jewish community, decrying a statement by the Israel Project that describes the removal of settlements from the West Bank as “ethnic cleansing.” Shocking that Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, the head of the Israel…
There’s an old Jewish joke: Get two Jews together, you have three opinions. Well Dershowitz says that if you get 6 million Jews in America, they must have one opinion. On Israel, that is. In the JPost, Dershowitz offers a…
A few weeks ago we posted an interesting report from a Congressional intern who attended an “official briefing on the U.S.-Israel alliance” organized by AIPAC. The presenters concluded the training by telling the interns “you have leadership potential, and AIPAC…
I did a post yesterday, in the moment, foolishly giving Obama a break, prospectively, if Israel is to bomb Iran. Two of my intellectual betters demurred. Jack Ross: I’m closer to Antony Loewenstein than to you on this one. If…