Yesterday David Bromwich published a piece on Huffpo memorializing Rachel Corrie in the best way, by using her story to critique the media and the American government and ultimately to the fields of political philosophy and Jewish and American identity….
The other day on “All Things Considered,” NPR anchor Robert Siegel quoted Marty Peretz to Chas Freeman. Siegel said that Peretz said it would be crazy for Marty Peretz himself to be put in an intelligence position–he’s too in the…
Charles Lane in the Washington Post and David Rothkopf on Foreign Policy make the same angry point: the Freeman affair has devolved into a regrettable argument about whether Israel’s supporters in this country have dual loyalties. Lane wants President Obama…
Those Israeli journalists are tops. That’s Uri Avnery’s headline for his piece on the Freeman affair. “The portrayal of the power of the lobby by Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, has been fully vindicated.”
Obama, talk to Hamas, says this group of 10 muckety-mucks including Brent Scowcroft, Zbig Brzezinski, Paul A. Volcker, Ted Sorensen, and the great Henry Siegman. Two former senators, both Republicans: Chuck Hagel, Nancy Kassebaum Baker. Nebraska and Kansas–so much for…
One of the best things to come out of the Chas Freeman affair is the combination of non-Zionist leftwing Jews and realist gentiles. The two groups have gotten over political/cultural differences and are beginning to feel real loyalty to one…
The other day the Washington Post editorial page–which I am harping on because it has been on the pro-neocon track at least since declaring that the Iraq war was “essential to American security”– ran an editorial urging the Justice Department…
Here’s a fabulous column on the Freeman affair by Ron Smith in my hometown newspaper, the Baltimore Sun, demonstrating 1, Chas Freeman did us all a huge favor, 2, that you can no longer call critics of Israel antisemites because…
Here is a perfect example of the trend I was talking about earlier, which makes it impossible for Israel lobbyists to use the term “antisemite” to stop their critics: good Mark Shields criticizing Israel on the News Hour last night….