Before going to Cairo last month, I made it a point to seek out Ashraf Khalil, whose journalism on the conflict in the LA Times earned him a wide reputation for fairness. A man of large spirit, Khalil (left) introduced…
From the Jerusalem Post, American professors say U.S. support is eroding, and fast. Wish they were covering this over here: “The mood in the United States is changing,” said Richard Samuels, a political science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of…
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…
Earlier this month my coreligionist (and coBaltimoreOriolesist) Rob Browne of Dailykos challenged Rabbi Saperstein of the Union for Reform Judaism for being outspoken on Darfur when he was silent about oppression in Palestine. Browne has now exchanged emails with Saperstein’s…
Another note from Rob Browne of DailyKos: Here is an editorial from today’s Haaretz that simply states that Netanyahu knows what needs to be done to free Shalit. He should stop being a cowardly politician and make the deal. No…
Here’s a depraved story from Haaretz: an 18-year-old Israeli Jew indicted in Nazareth for killing a Palestinian Israeli by stabbing him in the head, just because he was an Arab, and that bugged him. The Arab man tried desperately to…
Last week in the Washington Blade, James Kirchick of the New Republic trashed ANSWER’s presence at a D.C. gay pride march, calling the antiwar group Stalinist. Kirchick wasn’t very straightforward. What is ANSWER’s big theme? Palestine. Here’s a foto from…
Last week we passed along a report from Joshua Ruebner about his efforts to attend the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs “mark-up” session on the FY2010 budget. He was interested because they were supposed to…
David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy is an important member of the Israel lobby. He wrote a book on the “peace process” lately with the Holy Avatar of the lobby, Dennis Ross. The avatar has lately…