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…
Yesterday this site slagged Mortimer Zuckerman (and got his name wrong, as Morton; sorry Mort!) for his deceptive suggestion on Huffington Post that the West Bank is part of Israel. Recently the Washington Post made the same error in an…
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…