Every day now I dip into Kafka, because he was so intelligently engaged with the Jewish question in Europe at a time when Zionism enthralled Jews, because it seemed to be the answer. Kafka was both a Zionist and not…
My new theme is that there is a tremendous amount of rage against Israel that is at last boiling to the surface post-Gaza, especially amid the air of righteous impunity the Israelis have adopted toward the atrocity claims. Latest piece…
Marty Peretz is embracing Netanyahu, saying he wants peace without “illusions.” Oh, and George Mitchell is “silly.” So spake the lobby. How interesting that TNR contributor Michael Walzer, who to his great credit has called for heavy pressure on Israel…
Neocons can’t be neocons anymore, or they can’t keep the same names. Here’s an important piece by Jim Lobe and Daniel Luban on a Kristol-Kagan group very much like the defunct Project for a New American Century, which ordered up…
For a brief moment last night, I had a sense of what it would be like to be on the other side of my issue. The evening was coming to an end, at the New York Theatre Workshop– a reading…
Excellent report in the Forward by Anthony Weiss showing that Yemen’s 300 Jews, whose transfer to Israel from the Arab nation has become a cause celebre among western Jewish/Zionist groups in the wake of the murder of one of the…
Tonight the 92d Street Y held a panel on “Why Zionism has become a dirty word,” with four Zionists on stage and some non-Zionists demonstrating out in Lexington Avenue. The hall was less than half full, and the panel itself…
Jeff Blankfort writes: I haven’t had time to read the J Street poll carefully, but I am stunned by this question if Goldfarb properly quoted it in the Weekly Standard: “More than that, a majority of respondents (53 percent) disagreed…
This is the most important political post I’ve done in a while, so listen up. Joe Bodell is a progressive reporter in Minnesota, and Jewish. On Wikileaks recently, he explored a list of former Senator Norm Coleman’s financial contributors, evidently…