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…
More lobby fingerprints: Facts & Logic about the Middle East, a tambourine group, here takes credit for forcing Chas Freeman’s withdrawal: Congratulations to all FLAME supporters who responded to our last FLAME Hotline, in which we encouraged you to write…
One of my themes is that the Israel lobby has too much power in American life because both parties are behind it. I compare it to the consensus for slavery that existed in the 1850s between Whigs and Dems before…
On Fareed Zakaria’s CNN show on March 15, Chas Freeman said that the Zionist Organization of America had coordinated a campaign against his selection to be Obama’s National Intelligence Council chair, an appointment he had given up under pressure five…
The new J Street poll has some fascinating findings re the complexity of Jewish attitudes re Israel. First the good news. 60 percent of American Jews are against expanding the settlements and the same number say the Gaza war didn’t…