Yesterday Richard Silverstein offered a criticism of Times reporter Ethan Bronner’s comments on the Nakba: [Ethan] Bronner has done a good job of channeling a certain Israeli nationalist perspective on the necessity of retaining Jewish dominance within the State of…
Something’s happened in the last year: the debate over the 1967 borders is giving way to a debate over the ’48 borders. Ilan Pappe said this was happening in his book on ’48, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, now it’s…
Much to its credit, Commentary magazine has posted an annotated version of Efraim Karsh’s piece on 1948. I urge all hackademics (to steal Avi Shlaim’s wonderful word) to have a look at the footnotes. I’m going to.
The other day I did a post saying that Arab students at Columbia were right to turn down the offer from the mini-Israel lobby at the school, called Lionpac, to have a private meeting about Nakba week and other public…
Ethan Bronner, the Times writer who reviewed Jimmy Carter’s book and dismissed it as “strange” and “little,” has a piece in tomorrow’s times about Israeli Arabs’ mixed feelings as the 60th birthday of the state approaches. Better off and better…
Sean Lee has an interesting chart of 34 NYT references to “Nakba” over the last ten years. He shows it’s growing, not by leaps and bounds, but growing. This shows that up until the 50th anniversary of the Nakba, the…
A friend has passed along an email evidently sent out by the “Israeli Student Life” group at Columbia University to organize opposition to the Arab Student Association’s week of Nakba recognition. “Dear Israelis,” the email says, “You are probably aware…
John Mearsheimer read the Times today and sent me the following note: Make sure you read David Margolick’s review of the new Benny Morris book in the NYT Book Review section today. It is another shocking piece, given how much…
Here’s an eye-opener. My latest Commentary, for May, has as its top story not a celebration of Israel’s birth, but a denial of the Nakba: “1948, Israel, and the Palestinians–The True Story,” by Efraim Karsh, who has something of a…