Months ago I declared that Gaza had cracked the Israel lobby. It did so by causing non-affiliated Jews to at last speak out about Israel/Palestine policy. These Jews had traditionally ceded the foreign-policy turf to their pro-Israel cousins (as I…
Here’s an invitation (after the jump) from the vice chair of California’s state Board of Equalization (which collects $53 billion in sales tax and other fees), inviting people to an “Investing in Israel” discussion with Israeli consulate officials next week….
Imagine if Hamas tried to set foot in the U.S. Capitol? Here’s a disgraceful interview with NY Congressman Eliot Engel, who went out of his way to meet with Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman last month. Reporter Jason Horowitz notes…
Almost all of us at this site who want peace in Israel/Palestine are pulling for Obama. As an Egyptian student said to me last month in Cairo, “He’s our only hope.” She meant: for fairness and dignity. It goes without…
The other day Ashraf Khalil wrote about how hard it was for him to publish an account of the mistreatment of Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer in the LA Times last year. Khalil’s story reminded a reader of the story that…
Max Blumenthal has a great piece up on Huffington pointing out that even as the cable networks and MSM endlessly reprise the video killing of Neda Agha-Soltan in Tehran, they have ignored similar cold-blooded killings during protests in the West…
We’re in a conversation aimed at forming a new political combination. Inspired by Josh Ruebner’s tragicomic effort to pierce the veil on AIPAC’s influence in Congress, Grant Smith of IRMEP talks about the real nuclear “hegemon” in the Middle East…
A couple months back at the 92d Street Y, someone on a panel said that Bernie Madoff could have happened to any community. I mocked the comment at the time because it was willful indifference (on the part of a…
Dan Sisken reports on Congresswoman Donna Edwards’s town hall meeting earlier tonight in Silver Spring, MD: For the first hour or so, Edwards talked about how she had come to get involved in Israel-Palestinian issues and take a trip to…