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…
Despite his campaign promise to do so, Obama in Turkey refuses to recognize the 1915 genocide of the Armenians. And remember all the talk about the powerful Armenian lobby? (Thanks to Bruce Wolman for headline, and idea)
From the Jewish Week’s story: “Bibi’s Allies on the Hill are Gearing Up to Blunt Obama Moves”, which typically lays the power of the Israel lobby off on to Christians, but concludes: “Anybody who believes this administration will focus on…
Last night I went to hear Rashid Khalidi speak at the Brooklyn Reform synagogue, Beth Elohim. A gorgeous temple, and before giving Khalidi the microphone at the altar, Rabbi Andy Bachman went down the list of groups that had sponsored…
I’ve been meaning to get this post up for a couple weeks: on Israel lobbyist David Harris’s testimony about the Holocaust before the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on immigration. Harris is the executive director of the American Jewish Committee and…