A few times in the last 3 years I have declared that young people are going to lead us; and each time I have been premature. I did it at Columbia University in an article for New York Magazine in…
Last night I went to a New York party and got drunk and said a few unmannerly things. My wife wasn’t there, who is often my governor in these situations, or who gives me the grim assessment afterward. This morning…
The New Republic sent Yossi Klein Halevi to explore “Ground Zero of Israel’s new Ultra-Nationalism”– the Lieberman movement that is for getting rid of Israeli Arabs. So it’s an article about ultra-nationalist Jews? Well, no. Halevi soon finds his way…
It is important to register the fact that when Dershowitz cried out against the Hampshire College divestment resolution, he did so by calling on donors to withdraw contributions from Hampshire. This is an old story. When Walt and Mearsheimer published…
Congressman Paul Hodes says he’ll run for the Senate seat now held by scapegrace Judd Gregg. JTA reports Hodes is Jewish, and kosher on the issue: He also spoke about his first trip to Israel, in 2007: Hodes says his…
Gary Ackerman, the Long Island congressman. Far too little–where was he when it mattered–but it’s an important signal of where the mainstream is moving. Even AIPAC is going to start on this soon, trying to save two states, which they…
Israel’s rightwing shift is giving J Street more room to run in the US. Here’s Isaac Luria of J Street interviewing the great Akiva Eldar: … Labor is not in the mood to become number 3 or 4 in the…
Ray Close, a former CIA analyst, wrote the following letter to a foreign-policy list maintained by a Princeton scholar yesterday. Close gave me permission to publish [emphases mine]: For a large number of sophisticated Israelis, particularly those who feel the…
MJ Rosenberg is saying in the LA Times and at Israel Policy Forum that the Israel lobby here doesn’t want a rightwing Israel. They want to be able to market Israel in the U.S. It’s hard to market a government…