I keep braying that Gaza is a watershed moment in American political life and American Jewish life. The billboard is one of ten being put up in New Mexico by an Albuquerque-based grassroots org (the Coalition to Stop $30 Billion…
Every column that Roger Cohen writes now on Iran in the Times must be celebrated. They’re so important, the tone is chastened and reasoned and olive-branch. They’re historic, in that they’re changing the American discussion. And Cohen has staked an…
In the last couple of days, many commenters have taken exception to Richard Witty’s views of the Clark University censorship of Norman Finkelstein. Some of them have been abusive and vicious. We’ve eliminated those comments. We’re pleased that Witty spends…
The New York Post is enraged by the the report that Palestinian prof Joseph Massad has gotten tenure at Columbia. So is the Daily News, in a very angry editorial today, which smears a lot of folks and calls the…
The other day I picked up Jerry Haber’s report that Michael Walzer had at last come out against Gaza as an unjust war. He did so in the Hebrew edition of Haaretz, with a co-author, Avishai Margalit. “Nogal” at TNR…
I keep thinking about Clark University’s decision to censor a lecture by Norman Finkelstein scheduled for later this month, an unfortunate decision on any number of levels. 1, Part of the Clark president”s reasoning is that the Finkelstein lecture would…
Syrian Ambassdor to Washington Imad Moustapha on Fareed Zakaria’s CNN show today, saying that the U.S. has sustained the criminal occupation. He’s cautiously optimistic with Obama, but: Moustapha warned that Mitchell will be more limited in peacemaking efforts between Arabs…
I missed a stretcher. Yesterday Clark University President John Bassett wrote a letter seeking to justify his censorship of Norman Finkelstein, who had been scheduled to give a speech on campus, and his letter included this statement: What especially exaggerates…
Bruce Wolman writes: Howard Schneider has at last settled in as the Washington Post’s new Jerusalem Bureau Chief. Hence it was finally time for a trip over to the Occupied Territories to cover the other half of his beat. Setting…