This mock-realist piece by David Samuels on Slate arguing for an Israeli strike on Iran is outlandish in a number of ways. Most outlandish: Samuels’s assessment that it is a “fiction” that there would be a “mass public outcry” in…
I keep braying that Gaza is a watershed moment in American political life and American Jewish life. The billboard is one of ten being put up in New Mexico by an Albuquerque-based grassroots org (the Coalition to Stop $30 Billion…
Every column that Roger Cohen writes now on Iran in the Times must be celebrated. They’re so important, the tone is chastened and reasoned and olive-branch. They’re historic, in that they’re changing the American discussion. And Cohen has staked an…
The New York Times Op-Ed page continues to expand its bandwidth so as to educate its readers about the new mood on campus earth. Wonderful. Let it be a model to the Washington Post. Here is the Sydney Morning Herald’s…
From the Jerusalem Post: While refusing to go into detail about the military option to foil Iran’s nuclear program, Peres did say that Israel couldn’t carry out any strike against the Islamic republic without America. “We certainly cannot go it…
In the last couple of days, many commenters have taken exception to Richard Witty’s views of the Clark University censorship of Norman Finkelstein. Some of them have been abusive and vicious. We’ve eliminated those comments. We’re pleased that Witty spends…
The New York Post is enraged by the the report that Palestinian prof Joseph Massad has gotten tenure at Columbia. So is the Daily News, in a very angry editorial today, which smears a lot of folks and calls the…
The other day I picked up Jerry Haber’s report that Michael Walzer had at last come out against Gaza as an unjust war. He did so in the Hebrew edition of Haaretz, with a co-author, Avishai Margalit. “Nogal” at TNR…
I keep thinking about Clark University’s decision to censor a lecture by Norman Finkelstein scheduled for later this month, an unfortunate decision on any number of levels. 1, Part of the Clark president”s reasoning is that the Finkelstein lecture would…