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…
Bruce Wolman picks up a good piece by Gershon Baskin in the Jerusalem Post. Wolman: Gershon Baskin was always one of the most wired Israelis when it came to what it would take to make peace with the Palestinians. During…
Peretz at the New Republic: Yes, I know that there is much that they [Palestinians] must accomplish among their [sic] to really become a nation and have a history as a people. But, whether we gloat or weep about these…
From the Bangladesh paper, Blitz, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury: In 2007, before I met David Harris, it was beyond my imagination that being the one of the finest public servants of the Jewish world, a person, extremely influential with personal…
I’m proud we were able to publish Bruce Wolman’s fabulous account of the Jerusalem Post’s bogus story on anti-Semitism in Norway yesterday. It drew this comment from Richard Silverstein, who was unable to post it for some reason. We’re workin…
Bruce Wolman, who reads the Norwegian press, offers this important report: It may be difficult for Americans to believe, but a disputed Jerusalem Post article asserting that Norway is rife with anti-Semitism continues to reverberate in the Norwegian media one…
I believe the Israel lobby is dying a death by a thousand cuts. Will take a while. Two more congresspeople have gone to Gaza. One is Bob Inglis, a Republican from South Carolina! The other is Stephen Lynch, a Boston…