It’s official, the Obama administration has decided to boycott the Durban Review Conference being held this week in Geneva. This is a shameful decision from an administration whose election provided such an important milestone in the United States’ own journey…
The worst thing about David Brooks’s twelfth visit to Israel the other day (and let me say: Brooks is probably the best writer at the Times, which makes his religious investment in the country the more problematic) was the column’s…
Morris Dees is the head of the Southern Poverty Law Center. The Center made a name for itself in the 70s and 80s fighting for civil rights and human rights for blacks. They’re very concerned with racism. They moved on…
From the statement by Denis Rancourt, a physics professor, on his firing by the University of Ottawa at the end of March: I was fired by the University of Ottawa on March 31, 2009. I was fired under the false…
Yesterday we ran a report on Mads Gilbert’s lecture in Chicago on the Gaza onslaught. Gilbert was one of two Norwegian doctors to work at Shifa hospital in Gaza City for twelve days in January. I went to hear him…
The JTA is reporting that Avigdor Lieberman has chosen Naor Gilon to be his chief of staff in the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Gilon was the lead Israeli official involved in the Pentagon espionage scandal involving Lawrence Franklin and ex-AIPACers Steve…
As an American Jew, I was taught to go all gooey-eyed at the thought of Israel… –David Brooks in a column on his twelfth trip to the Holy Land where he says that the Palestinians are the obstacle to peace…
Israeli gov’t tells George Mitchell that the idea of the two-state solution is a “dead end.” Don Nissenbaum of McClatchy reports: Netanyahu has refused to embrace [two states side by side] formula and has instead floated the idea of offering…
Smart piece by Antony Loewenstein down under saying that the mainstream media are going away not just because of a technological change but because they’re invested more in the establishment hierarchy than in information. I.e., they’ve blown the story. Or…