The greatest threat to the Israel lobby is on this excerpt of the Laura Flanders Showat 2:00 or so. You will see a Jewish academic couple participating in the Jews Say No demonstration that happened last Thursday outside the World…
You didn’t like Jimmy Carter’s book. You challenged him to a debate. But he was afraid of you, and ran, and at Brandeis referred to you as a “Harvard professor.” As if you were a pischer! But you got back…
Dan Drezner at Foreign Policy says I twisted his words when I said that he is “deceiving the public about the power of the Israel lobby.” He dares me to back up my accusation, also to follow thru on my…
Alan Dershowitz has responded angrily to the Hampshire College divestment initative for singling out Israel: The divestment campaign applies to Israel and Israel alone. Hampshire will continue to deal with companies that supply Iran, Saudi Arabia, China, Cuba, North Korea,…
In Haaretz. I guess this is real progress since 1948… He was talking to the rightwing Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. What will Obama do?
The Boston Globe has a little piece following up the bogus controversy started by Jonathan Chait when he wrote that Steve Walt did not hurt his career by writing, The Israel Lobby. Chait is wrong, and either foolishly misleading, or…
Here’s something grotesque. Last week the physician Mustafa Barghouti visited New York and talked about the inequity in water usage in Israel/Palestine on public radio: “We the Palestinians of the West Bank can only use up to 50 cubic meters…
One of the signal events of the Gaza slaughter in the U.S. was the brave statement by “J Street” against the disproportionate violence, and the subsequent attack on J Street by Rabbi Eric Yoffie, head of the Union for Reform…
Hampshire students take heart. You are part of a movement. 120 members of Columbia faculty have sent this strong letter to Columbia President Lee Bollinger blasting him for his utter silence on the Gaza slaughter and the countless other destructions…