A friend justly took me to task for opening the door on the self-hatred issue, saying this is the blackmail that Israel’s defenders often use. I’m reminded of something Noam Chomsky said, in a piece by painter Menachem Wecker, a…
Rev. Wright is all over the airwaves today, you may have noticed. Thanks to the opaque National Republican Trust. And in the Harvard Crimson too. It is sad that the Crimson runs a piece by a freshman named Avishai Don…
One of the great things Joe Klein said in his seminal piece on Jewish neocons earlier this year was that people who opposed the war or who criticized Israel got bullied. A friend writes to ask: Is Jeffrey Goldberg bullying…
Forboding music and a lot of nuke talk: Just caught neocon Frank Gaffney inveighing that a President Obama would adopt military policies inviting “disastrous” attacks. We’re the sole superpower cause we decided to be, he says. “When we see candidates…
More slime from the Republican Jewish Coalition. Here’s an RJC flyer saying Obama’s friends and advisers are “pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel, even Hostile to America.” Here’s an image of the Western Wall the RJC is using to stir Jewish voters, saying Obama…
Some days I wake up and realize: We are about to win. Jewishness is about to stop being selfish. Suddenly all the parochial voices are going to feel very ancient and young people will reject their counsel. This attack by…
Any doubt why Obama chose Dennis Ross as a foreign policy adviser? He wants the lobby in his pocket. The Jerusalem Post interviewed Ross about the Middle East and he said Iraq was a great success story and that Jerusalem…
Having kicked from here to there, and been kicked, Doug Feith hath roosted, inevitably, at that neocon masada, the Hudson Institute.
interview of McCain campaign mouthpiece Michael Goldfarb by Rick Sanchez of CNN in which Goldfarb states that Rashid Khalidi is “anti-semitic” and Sanchez mildly defends Kahlidi. At least Sanchez pounds Goldfarb when he says “we all know” of another person…