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…
After last Monday’s 92d Street Y panel on a liberal Jewish lobby, Justin Elliott of TPM did this wonderful interview with one of the panelists, Michelle Goldberg. Goldberg is a lover of Israel who is agonized about what Avigdor Lieberman…
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…