Even I find this reading a little hopeful. Where are all these anti-Gaza Jews? John Goekler, at Counterpunch: Whereas previous AIPAC moves had stirred discussion, its blind support of Israeli actions in Gaza spurred disgust… [Israel] surrendered forever what remained…
A few weeks ago the American Jewish Committee’s executive director, David Harris, accused John Mearsheimer of running away from a debate. Mearsheimer isn’t running away from debate. On this website last weekend he welcomed a debate with Harris over Whether…
This morning I got a between-the-eyes email from a Jewish friend: I in many respects finally “exited” from what was a lifelong communal Jewish space a number of years ago. It was liberating. It was Lebanon 2006 that finally did…
Yesterday I said Obama will treat Avigdor Lieberman like a non-person. In my dreams. Hillary Clinton had a phone call with Avigdor Lieberman yesterday, congratulating him on his new job, Foreign Minister. Can you imagine any American official phoning up…
Here’s Abraham Foxman’s worldview: Israeli efforts to offer concessions to achieve peace have produced more extremism and violence on the other side. Is that what you want, America? Permanent war?
For the racism/Orientalism file. Daniel Pipes says that Avigdor Lieberman’s speech left him “elated.” It said, “Israel is back.” And this guy has standing? Yes. I saw him at a jammed Philadelphia synagogue that would never invited the great Noam…
Jeff Blankfort calls this Jewish McCarthyism, and I’m hard pressed to deny it. After Gaza–yes, Gaza changed everything–a Bay Area pro-Israel guy called Jim Sinkinson made a collection of angry letters re Israel published in the Berkeley Daily Planet and…
This is how screwed up American Jewish leadership is. Democratic congresswoman Shelley Berkley says she calls Mort Klein of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) before she decides how to vote on bills about the Middle East. Well: Here is…
Michael Scheuer at antiwar.com, reports on a debate at Georgetown University last week hosted by the Doha Foundation. Scheuer and Avraham Burg argued for the U.S. to finally get tough on Israel, and Alan Dershowitz and Dore Gold arguing agin…