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…
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…