A couple years ago I participated in a panel on Zionism at a synagogue on the Upper West Side. Dan Fleshler, who has a new book about the Israel lobby, helped arrange it. So did the progressive Zionist group, Meretz….
Two weeks back, publisher Mort Zuckerman wrote a piece on Huffpo called “The Story You Aren’t Hearing from Israel” that began with an event he described as one of the “everyday incidents of the ordeal confronted by people in Israel:”…
Things are changing. Three years ago the New York Theatre Workshop hit a roadblock when it wanted to produce the late Rachel Corrie’s own words, in My Name Is Rachel Corrie. Tomorrow night the Tribeca Film Festival shows a movie…
Things are changing. Three years ago the New York Theatre Workshop hit a roadblock when it wanted to produce the late Rachel Corrie’s own words, in My Name Is Rachel Corrie. Tomorrow night the Tribeca Film Festival shows a movie…
“If I Were a Palestinian”–Akiva Elder tells Palestinians to call for one democratic state between the river and the sea for all citizens, abolish the P.A., end the sham peace process (and give up the right of return): Prime Minister…
“If I Were a Palestinian”–Akiva Elder tells Palestinians to call for one democratic state between the river and the sea for all citizens, abolish the P.A., end the sham peace process (and give up the right of return): Prime Minister…
Jeff Blankfort makes the following excellent point re the Baird and Ellison op-ed in the Seattle Times: Accuse me of paranoia but two items are strangely missing from that otherwise excellent article by Baird and Ellison and they are not…
People seem to be leaving out the plainest part of the Jane Harman scandal, which is actually the worst part of it: the importance of big money to the Israel lobby. Leave aside the legal issues–whether or not Harman cut…
A great column by Farideh Farhi going after Michael Rubin, the unreconstructed neoconservative (are there any other kind?). Farhi says Rubin is pushing a confrontation with Iran by twisting Iranian statements about its nuclear goals, and in one case directly…