Here’s the State Department’s report to Congress last year on global anti-semitism. Nice cover, sort of neo-expressionist. On page 33, the report says that it is anti-Semitic to ascribe policy-making to a “pro-Israel lobby” or a “Zionist lobby,” because that’s…
This New Orleans human rights site is raising money for a delegation going to Gaza in late May. Chip in, huh? On May 29th, a group of New Orleans social justice activists, filmmakers, photographers, and journalists will attempt to cross…
Most of my posts are hard work. I’m sorry. I’ve always tried to be light of heart. Never could get there. Recently my friend Max told me I’m tormented, and it was a gift. I’m tormented! Well here is a…
The tension surrounding next week’s Obama/Netanyahu meeting continues to rise. Today, Ha’aretz is reporting that Obama couldn’t even wait until next week to tell Israel not to attack Iran. The Israeli press seems to be on the edge of its…
The anonymous, telegraphic report is from Col Patrick Lang’s blog (Lang is a highly-decorated retired intelligence officer, who served in the Defense Intelligence Agency): “Sources familiar with the FBI investigation… say that the investigation is continuing even though the charges…
The anonymous, telegraphic report is from Col Patrick Lang’s blog (Lang is a highly-decorated retired intelligence officer, who served in the Defense Intelligence Agency): “Sources familiar with the FBI investigation… say that the investigation is continuing even though the charges…
My minder at the AIPAC policy conference was Jason Rosenberg. I don’t know much about him, except that he’s not a full time AIPAC staff person, he worked as a volunteer for the conference. A quick google search turned up…
Last night I posted an LA Times piece called “What Is Anti-Semitism?” that accepts a Daniel Jonah Goldhagen test of anti-Semitism: Does the speaker harp on Israel’s faults and not consider other countries’ faults? (I wonder if Goldhagen even thinks…
Nick Goldberg has a great piece in the LA Times on the William I. Robinson case at UC Santa Barbara that basically/secretly comes down on Robinson’s side, his right to pass around an email comparing Israeli human rights abuses with…