Wow. Look at alleged center-left Brookings’ page on the Middle East, and its “featured” experts. Writes a friend: Martin Indyk, a former lobbyist, now an unpaid lobbyist; Ken Pollack who writes books advocating wars of imperial aggression; Tamara Cofman Wittes,…
in Max Blumenthal’s sharp piece in the Daily Beast on the Freeman opposition. Blumenthal says that the campaign against Chas Freeman is motivated by alleged spy Steve Rosen’s opposition to the two-state solution, that the campaign had the quiet AIPAC…
We’re in IQ freefall. None of us can doubt that Jewish genius transformed the 20th century. Finance, science, psychiatry, media–do I really need to go through all that part? Now we are in IQ freefall, for two reasons related to…
One thing that the Chas Freeman attacks have tried to erase is Freeman’s professionalism. He served his country for four decades in many countries, through Democratic and Republican administrations, and lost a child and a marriage along the way. The…
Moved by Roger Cohen’s great piece in the Times today to reflect on the horrors of Gaza, Andrew Sullivan has now been utterly converted to the theory of the corruption of our discourse by the Israel lobby. He says, and…
This is exciting. It’s a video from a jammed event on Gaza at the Capitol last Thursday sponsored by the New America Foundation and featuring Congressmen Brian Baird, Rush Holt (pictured above), and Keith Ellison, all of whom have visited…
The Vermont senator is on the floor of the Senate now, debating the Kyl amendments on the omnibus appropriations bill. One of them bars Palestinian refugees of Gaza from resettling here, because they come from a “terrorist” land, as Leahy…
I think it’s over. The Israel lobby as a monolithic conspiracy dominating the discourse–over. The issue is now captivating the imagination of the left, including Jews; and looking more and more like South Africa redux. Look at these protesters outside…
Chas Freeman’s appointment is important in sociological terms. Freeman is the latest heir to a realist tradition in foreign policy that–while Jews have been adherents of it–has a gentile cast because it is associated with opposition to the recognition of…