A friend offered this bagatelle: Thought experiment on Jane Harman: if her name were Chang Ha Lee, and the country for which she allegedly ran interference as a de facto agent were China, would the reaction be: (a) harsher, (b)…
Daniel Schorr is a commentator on NPR’s Saturday morning radio show. He has esteem in the liberal community. Per his autobiography, his mother was devoted to the Zionist cause, and that familial bias shows through in his work. This morning,…
This will be a short post because it is now such a familiar trope in our political life. I’d bore myself if I went through the details, which of course are always vague, to try and discover why Senator Kirsten…
Note the sudden withdrawal of the offer to General Anthony Zinni to be ambassador to Iraq. CNN’s political ticker says the withdrawal is a mystery. Well, Zinni has called for a more evenhanded American policy in Israel/Palestine, and suggested that…
Note the sudden withdrawal of the offer to General Anthony Zinni to be ambassador to Iraq. CNN’s political ticker says the withdrawal is a mystery. Well, Zinni has called for a more evenhanded American policy in Israel/Palestine, and suggested that…
Bruce Wolman writes: President Obama gave the keynote address Thursday at a Holocaust remembrance ceremony at the US Capitol. The theme for this year’s ceremony was “Never Again: What You Do Matters.” Peterr over at Firedoglake remarked “it was actually…
I saw a great movie last night, the documentary Defamation, by Yoav Shamir, an Israeli filmmaker. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and it is about the consecration of anti-Semitism as the central mode of Jewish identity and the…
Anees of Jerusalem writes to me: Another North American college professor, Margo Ramlal-Nankoe of Ithaca College, alleges pro-Zionist prejudice was the reason behind her career block. Norman Finkelstein is quoted saying that it’s a case of “tenure tragedy”: “It simply…
The Jane Harman case is confusing to newcomers. The most important question that arises is why now? Why four years after the phone call? It is the most important question because it speaks to the fact that the central fight…