There has been an ongoing discussion on this site about the “Dershofoxmanitz” question – “Why do you single out Israel?” In addition to the other answers already given here’s another – because the US government has already singled Israel out….
I think we are in the beginning of an American Jewish backlash against Israel. The causes of this anger are obvious: Gaza and Avigdor Lieberman are resonating through a Jewish community that voted for Barack Hussein Obama, 4 to 1….
As the Obama administration begins its engagement with the Netanyahu/Lieberman government, The Economist states the obvious – the new Israeli government is not an ally in Obama’s vision for the Middle East. The magazine points out that Israel’s ongoing colonization…
A few weeks back, Dana Goldstein of The American Prospect overcame her reserve about writing about Israel/Palestine because Gaza was so appalling to her; and she called on Jews to raise their voices. Now she’s back. Today in The American…
Parallel universe. The Zionist Organization of America is threatening to boycott Coca-Cola because it bought land in Egypt for a bottling plant that was once owned by a Jewish family, the Bigios, and that was stolen from them in 1964…
The other day someone asked me what I love about Israel, and I realized later I should always begin with Uri Avnery. Now in his 80s, he is a great wise man, who gave up ambition for truth a long…
Howard Jacobson in the New Republic on the new anti-Semitism in England, criticism of Israel post-Gaza: The premise of Seven Jewish Children is a fine piece of fashionable psychobabble that understands Zionism as the collective nervous breakdown of the Jewish…
Last week Laila El-Haddad’s story of trying to get into Gaza to visit her family made its way across the Internet. El-Haddad was detained at the Egyptian border and eventually forced to return to the US without entering Gaza. Part…
Middle East envoy George Mitchell is returning to Israel this week for the first time since the election of the Netanyahu/Lieberman government. Ynet is reporting the the goal of the trip is for Mitchell to figure out if the Obama…