I used the words intellectual leadership in a post today. That leadership has to be American, to defeat the lobby. Here’s Ilene Cohen’s latest inspiring email: The three articles following, by Gideon Levy, Uri Avnery, and Tony Karon, offer superb…
Yesterday I went on Press TV to discuss the Israel lobby with Elazar Barkan and Dan Fleshler, and after the taping, the three of us hung out in a hallway talking. We all disagreed about what the lobby is. I’d…
Cliff Kincaid, at Accuracy in Media, (I seem to remember I got in with them during the Clinton years; oh my) is trying to prevent Rupert Murdoch/HarperCollins from publishing and promoting former SDS radical Mark Rudd’s forthcoming book, Underground. Says…
John Mearsheimer has a strong piece in the latest Atlantic Monthly about Chas Freeman and the Israel lobby. Oh wait, sorry– the piece is in the London Review of Books. Gosh. How can I make such mistakes? Titled, “The Lobby…
What I have urged more than anything else in the Israel lobby discussion is: discussion! Because only with open discussion can the true extent of the Israel lobby be understood. Chas Freeman’s ouster has had a huge effect, of course….
Exclusive report from Mondoweiss: In a speech at a New York synagogue Wednesday night, Nadia Matar, a leader of the Israeli settlers’ group “Women in Green,” called for the assassination of Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, as…
Marc Sapir is a doctor in Berkeley. He lately sent out this email to friends (and Jeff Blankfort got Sapir’s permission to pass it along, edited). It bears on the fact that the traditional left is “confounded” by the Israel/Palestine…
Yesterday I read Michael Tomasky’s review in New York Review of Books (no link yet) of Robert Kaiser’s book on the corruption of lobbyists. Tomasky is justly disturbed about the health-care lobby’s ability to destroy Obama’s work on health care…
Why do I depend on Steve Rosen for all my information about the Israel lobby and its discontents? Cause he’s wired, I guess. At Middle East Forum, he says General Anthony Zinni is the frontrunner. Realist. And good on The…