Dennis Ross is a diplomat pretty high in the State Department under Hillary Clinton. He was lately appointed a special adviser on the Persian Gulf/Iran. Till lately, Ross was chairman of the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, an Israeli thinktank….
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s new Washington blog is called “Capital J”. “Inside the Beltway with Ron Kampeas & Eric Fingerhut.” I wonder if they would have come up with that name if not for J Street. I bet not. That…
I veer here between celebrating the sea-change in the American political discourse and saying that the Israel lobby runs Washington. Today’s a good day. Here is my abundant evidence of the sea-change: –Obama’s Chas Freeman pick for National Intelligence Council;…
Steve Walt, who is giving lectures on the Israel lobby, here describes a McCarthyite smear campaign against longtime public servant Chas Freeman, the new head of the National Intelligence Council, and singles out: Jonathan Chait, Michael Goldfarb of Weekly Standard,…
We reported here on Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb’s trip to Iran. Roger Cohen reported on his trip to Iran. And now from AFP: Top US film actress Annette Bening, in Iran as part of a Hollywood delegation, said on Sunday she…
This piece, by Howard Friel, about the bullying by Alan Dershowitz of Hampshire College following its divestment agreement, shows that Dershowitz frequently uses the word “bigot” to describe critics of Israel. He uses the word or its derivatives 6 times…
Here’s a link to an American Jewish Committee site where Doug Lieb’s article attacking Jerry Slater’s piece in Tikkun has been posted. Lieb’s article is also published in the latest issue of Tikkun, which thereby takes on the old Commentary…
The battle is joined. The other side is gearing up. Here is a fabulous post by MJ Rosenberg saying that the Weekly Standard and other usual suspects want to hold McCarthy-like hearings about Chas Freeman. Meantime, something I somewhat-apprehended last…
Here’s why I believe in the Israel lobby theory of American Middle East policy. Here is Anne Bayefsky in Forbes the other day urging the Obama administration not to “sacrifice” Israel to the U.N.’s Durban conference. (Advice taken.) Bayefsky is…