Lanny Davis on Huffpo this morning, saying Netanyahu is a man of peace. I’ll update when I get around to reading it. Have to steel myself.
A few weeks ago, Michelle Goldberg, who has made her career in good measure by criticizing the Christian right, said that if you criticize Israel, you sacrifice your journalistic career. An important point, and one I agree with based on…
The other night I was talking with a Muslim friend at an elite university, and he said that there was an anti-semitic tinge to some of the statements he hears from friends about the Israel lobby. I asked him to…
The chief purpose of this website rightnow is to defenestrate the piece of propaganda that Mort Zuckerman published on the supine Huffington Post yesterday with the headline, “The Story You Aren’t Hearing About Israel.” Below are 5 critiques of the…
The alternative Israel lobby, J Street, is one year old today. It is celebrating its birthday with a fundraising drive to hire two more staffers and it says it has 100,000 members. It is pretty impressive. J Street’s rise is…
I think we are in the beginning of an American Jewish backlash against Israel. The causes of this anger are obvious: Gaza and Avigdor Lieberman are resonating through a Jewish community that voted for Barack Hussein Obama, 4 to 1….
Writes a friend: Mort Zuckerman, publisher of the Daily News and editor of U.S. News, goes on to Huffington Post to complain about media bias against Israel: “The Story You Aren’t Hearing About Israel.” But the incident he leads with…
Oh me of little influence– I saw the significance of Trita Parsi’s book Treacherous Alliance 18 months ago. Well Laura Rozen at Foreign Policy says that the book’s sales have spiked lately because of Roger Cohen’s superb endorsement in the…
Parallel universe. The Zionist Organization of America is threatening to boycott Coca-Cola because it bought land in Egypt for a bottling plant that was once owned by a Jewish family, the Bigios, and that was stolen from them in 1964…