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…
Something is stirring at the New York Times. Make no mistake, friends: Four op-eds in four days (a couple of them on-line, appearing in the International Herald Tribune, but picked up by the Times) questioning the pro-Israel line. First George…
Joseph Massad is the Palestinian scholar of Middle East Studies who was the focus of the campaign against criticism of Israel at Columbia that was led by the David Project a few years back. Word has it that his prolonged…
Bruce Wolman writes: This Haaretz author (Tzvia Greenfield) is not very enthralled with the “universalist left”– On the other side stands the universalist left, which is uncomfortable with the Jewish identity of the Israeli state. Too many in that camp…
Ha’aretz is reporting that the Obama administration is taking an “unprecedented move” by preparing Democratic congressional leaders for the upcoming clash with the Netanyahu government over establishing a Palestinian state. As Obama’s recent trip to Turkey has shown he views…