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…
Regarding David Makovsky’s congressional testimony in which he presumed to speak for Palestinian interests, I missed the crucial link! Here it is. And here is the story: In 2004 Makovsky, the goodnatured scholar who works for the Israel lobby WINEP–and…
Howard Berman, chairman of House Foreign Affairs, has issued the following defiant statement about the fresh news of negotiations between Hamas and Fatah to form a unity government: “The U.S. Congress will find it impossible to work constructively with any…