“Anti-Semitism–the Ugliest Backlash in Our Lifetime.” Well not Abe Foxman’s lifetime.
From the JTA report on the Zionist Organization of America’s lunch on Capitol Hill last week. Best moments belong to Shelley Berkley. Emphasis mine: Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV) joked that she always brings [ZOA President] Mort Klein her ZOA membership…
The Guardian on all the heat that Roger Cohen is getting for being open-minded about Iran: Cohen said he was stunned by the vehemence of the response, an impression exacerbated when he visited exiled Iranian Jews in California and was…
On March 12, John Mearsheimer went on Philadelphia talk radio to discuss the Israel lobby, as reported here at the time. David Harris, executive director of the American Jewish Committee, was on next, and host Dom Giordano asked Mearsheimer to…
From my correspondent, Geof Gray: Maureen Dowd writes in the Times yesterday: “And it is true, of course, that the upper crust, underwhelming Anglo-Saxon leaders who allowed America’s financial markets to morph into louche casinos, George W Bush and Dick…
Jeff Blankfort writes: I just finished Seymour Hersh’s piece in the New Yorker, “Syria Calling,” and am no less sure than I was before that Israel does not want to negotiate a deal with Syria, only give the appearance of…
From Seymour Hersh’s report in this week’s New Yorker: that Obama put pressure on Israel to end Gaza assault. When former Vice President Dick Cheney learned that Obama had been putting pressure on the Israelis, he angrily disparaged him as…
Say it again: Gaza has struck a blow to the Israel lobby. Here (thanks to Eva Smagacz) is a long column by Jerusalem Post editor David Horovitz that teems with anxiety about the delegitimization of Israel in the eyes of…
Bruce Wolman writes: Did you notice how the Washington Institute for Near East Policy reduces the entire discussion of Gaza atrocities to the debate on the Israeli side? “So far, there have been only a few cases of alleged serious…