A shocking story. 1. Emily McNeill graduates from Ithaca College last year and visits the West Bank with a Christian Peacemaker team. She writes a fine, earnest piece for the college’s official magazine about Israeli settler violence against Palestinians. Unchecked…
Your Israel lobby tax dollars at work. Greg Sargent reports that Chuck Schumer is spending political capital to block Freeman… This comes as the White House is signaling that they may not be willing to go to bat for Freeman….
I just wrote about the irrepressible conflict involved in lifting the boot of the Israel lobby off our necks. Well…. Sallai Meridor has quit as the Israeli ambassador to the U.S., reports Foreign Policy. “The bigger story of Sallai resigning…
Is this fair? Some in Congress want to hold up Gaza aid till Israeli soldier-prisoner Gilad Shalit is released. Writes a friend: These members of Congress are openly backing collective punishment against a devastated community living under occupation and siege….
I only have one foot on the ground (that’s the definition of this blog, Rabbi Hillel meets the luftmensch and goes for a ride) but I can’t think of a more hopeful piece to read tonight than rbguy’s wonderful reporting…
Jim Lobe has a devastatingly-smart analysis of the new State Department, including the bad news that Dennis Ross seems to have legs, on the 7th floor, guiding Iran policy, and that Hillary is reading neocon thinktank papers. Ideas, ideas, ideas–the…
A few months back, my friend Mark and I exposed the pseudonymous conservative columnist Spengler as the nom-de-plume of a LaRouchie-cum-neocon musician/trader named David P. Goldman. We decided to unmask him because author investigations are fun, and also because Spengler…
Helena Cobban has published an amazing report on an interview she did with smiling senior Likud security-affairs specialist Efraim Inbar, who surely has Netanyahu’s ear. Somewhat shocking. A lot of racism dignified as the “Zionist ethos.” Incredible arrogance, which I…
Today Jeremy Ben-Ami, Executive Director of J Street, has an article in the Huffington Post that could have been ripped from the pages of Mondoweiss. In his post “Avigdor Lieberman’s Makeover Won’t Work” Ben-Ami addresses the wedge that Avigdor Lieberman…