It’s widely agreed that the “House Divided” speech that Lincoln gave in June 1858, accepting the Republican nomination for the Senate and warning that the spread of slavery must be stopped or the whole nation would be taken over by…
In his interview with the Jerusalem Post, former Bush aide Elliott Abrams says that former Israeli P.M. Ariel Sharon decided to withdraw from Gaza in 2005 for political/tactical reasons: to take people’s attention away from the Geneva Accord, which would…
Mohammad of Vancouver: The real and material world changes in many ways on a regular basis. Things go up, then they go down, and then they go up again. Every phenomenon, even a solid piece of rock, shows the signs…
I guess I’d understand if this former top official in the State Department had something to show for all the access he afforded the Israelis. Like, a peace deal. But no, it’s been nonstop settlements, and Gaza slaughter. Ehud Barak…
Felson reports: I am right now watching Fareed Zakaria’s show on CNN. Did you catch it? It’s good that they put Mustafa Barghouti on, but they double-teamed him with two pro-Israel guys — Yossi Halevi and Yoram Peri. Barghouti did…
I can’t get enough of watching the Hampshire video shown below, in which one student after another comes up to explain why they support divestment.The emotional and political power in these statements is incredible. “I spent my last semester in…
Jack Ross writes: In this past decade, my politics evolved from committed Green, which had so much invested in the narrative of the founding of the Republican Party on the slavery question, to jaded classical liberal, with at least a…
If you go to the Hampshire College students for justice in Palestine website, you will find a frankly anti-Zionist statement by Omar Barghouti in which Barghouti denounces the Zionist lobby in the U.S., saying that it intimidates intellectuals, and the…
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…