Alabama Senator Richard Shelby’s suggestion the other night that Barack Obama is not eligible to be president because he was not born in the U.S.–a false assertion–didn’t come out of nowhere. Dr. Orly Taitz is a California attorney behind lawsuits…
Marty Peretz, running wild and free like a mighty horse in a Marlboro ad not stopping for commas: But [Chas] Freeman’s real offense (and the president’s if he were to appoint him) is that he has questioned the loyalty and…
The great perceiver Jim Lobe says that Elliott Abrams has now declared himself to be the official spokesman for Netanyahu in the U.S., at the Weekly Standard and the CFR. The piece on which Lobe makes this judgment, at the…
Ira Glunts sent along an open letter he wrote to Lara Friedman, Director of Policy and Government Relations of Americans for Peace Now. Glunts wrote the letter in response to that group’s “action alert” praising the pro-Israel Rep. Gary Ackerman….
I’ve been very interested lately in how Avigdor Lieberman’s success in the recent Israeli elections is changing how Americans view and understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Richard Cohen’s column in today’s Washington Post is another sign Lieberman is helping people cut…
Is there an Israel lobby or not? The New York Jewish Week ought to be ashamed of itself for this piece attempting to discipline new Senator Kirsten Gillibrand for her mild comments re Israel that it regards as verboten. Gillibrand…
2 statements by Norman Finkelstein. 1. Finkelstein, a victim of the Israel lobby who has always denied its power in American political life, here accepts the idea that the Israel lobby played military expert Anthony Cordesman to say that Gaza…
Roger Cohen does a great service in today’s New York Times in a surprising article “What Iran’s Jews Say.” Reporting from Esfahan, Cohen blows away the image of Iran that AIPAC and the Israel lobby have worked so hard to…
Bill Moyers has the temerity to attack Israel for killing 400 children in Gaza and suddenly he’s being attacked all over for hunting up gay people in the White House 40 years ago. The timing is just too– perfect. Wall…