This morning Ron Kampeas of JTA tried to pooh-pooh the latest Israel lobby scandal by saying that the leaks of a taped conversation of Congresswoman Jane Harman from four years ago “smell to high heaven.” Here is undercover Mondo correspondent…
Don’t get me wrong, I can’t wait to head to DC to cover the upcoming AIPAC policy conference. It’s being promoted as “three of the most important days affecting Israel’s future” and I’m looking forward to it. But only two…
The blogosphere has taken up the Harman scandal and is following many angles of it including the surveillance of a congress member, the relationship to the Bush Administration’s illegal wiretapping program and the timing of when the story broke. Another…
JTA says that the CQ story on the taping of Congresswoman Jane Harman’s phone call with an “Israeli agent” back in ’06, in which she allegedly offered to do her part to end the Justice Department’s espionage case against former…
That’s the takeaway from the CQ story. Charges of anti-Semitism from influential Jewish speakers dissuaded journalists for a few years. No longer. Andrew Sullivan writes that it’s just “another day at the office” for AIPAC and says, “Take it away,…
Roger Cohen is walking our road. He has another fine piece in the Times today, on Jewish identity, the Holocaust/victimization, and the hateful occupation. A core contradiction inhabits Israeli policy. While talking about a two-state solution — at least until…
Roger Cohen is walking our road. He has another fine piece in the Times today, on Jewish identity, the Holocaust/victimization, and the hateful occupation. A core contradiction inhabits Israeli policy. While talking about a two-state solution — at least until…
Disturbed by reports that Obama wants to impose a two-state solution in Israel/Palestine, rightwing Israeli politician Ya’acov Katz sent Obama c-o-s Rahm Emanuel a letter last week to remind him of his Jewish and Israeli origins. (Emanuel was born here…
Amazing report by Jeff Stein at CQ, suggesting once again that Walt and Mearsheimer barely scraped the surface, if only journalists would pick up the ball: Rep. Jane Harman , the California Democrat with a longtime involvement in intelligence issues,…