This is the official photo from Obama’s White House seder. He’s reading from the Haggadah, the narrative for the dinner. I found it on Huffpo. I believe the painting over the fireplace is Queen Esther. But here is the question…
Here’s further evidence that Obama will be hawkish on Iran (and pushy about Israeli intransigence on the two-state solution). A piece in the Nation by Robert Dreyfuss on Dennis Ross’s power over Iran policy at the State Department. (This really…
Clark University just disinvited Norm Finkelstein from a speaking engagement later this month. Michigan State University was under pressure from the ADL to rescind its invitation to Israel-critic Desmond Tutu to give its commencement address. MSU is sticking to its…
The official newspaper of Yeshiva University in New York is reporting that after Erin Stalcup, a departing professor of English at the school, was discovered to have signed a letter to Obama denouncing Israel as an apartheid state, students called…
From Richard Witty to Clark University President John Bassett this morning : Dear Mr Bassett, I’m writing to you to request that you review the decision to cancel the Norman Finkelstein lecture at Clark scheduled for April 21. While I…
When I was in college, the social history of slavery began to appear. Scholars were writing about the world that the slaves made. Even in chains, they had music, story and custom that was different from the whites, and it…
Blunt censorship. Clark University has cancelled a talk later this month by Norman Finkelstein, saying it will shed more heat than light. This on the same week that Joseph Massad is said to have gotten tenure at Columbia. So reports…
Amir Oren in Haaretz says that Obama has accepted Israel’s view of the global danger of a nuclear Iran and may countenance an Israeli attack– and meanwhile won’t take any bull on settlements. Bruce Wolman writes: Wishful thinking by Oren,…
Here’s a wonderful event. Wayne Gilchrest, former congressman from Maryland, holds forth two days ago, at a forum on Capitol Hill, about the Israel lobby’s role in blocking a “more objective” policy in the Middle East. Watch this video and…