Last night at the Brecht Forum, I heard Joel Kovel, author of Overcoming Zionism, and this morning I need to shout that There is light coming into Americans’ lives on this issue. Everything I’ve said on this blog, about “The…
Something I liked about William Kristol’s column about Passover is that it had an openly Zionist message. One thing I’ve attacked the neocons for is their lack of transparency about their driving interest in Israel. The more power they’ve gotten,…
Last October, the Washington Post reported that Bill Kristol is an “informal policy adviser” to Sen. John McCain. Since then, Kristol has become a New York Times Op-Ed columnist. A friend of mine, who wishes to remain anonymous, has been…
My post about Masa raised the dual-loyalty issue, and this seemed a good time to repeat myself and offer a number of instances in which the issue has come to my attention in the last year or so. Here goes:…
Haaretz reports that Bibi Netanyahu told an audience at Bar Ilan University: “We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq,” Ma’ariv quoted the former prime…
I’ve long contended that a war between the neocons and the progressives inside the Jewish community is necessary for American Jewry to recover from Iraq–to understand the ways that neoconservative support for Israel led to planning what (predictably) turned out…
We don’t know Barack Obama, so his comments in S.F. about bitter working people are highly revealing. He’s an intellectual, a progressive, and yes probably an arrogant elitist, too. Not a bad mix. For the last eight years we’ve had…
The New York Jewish Week says that Democrats have failed so far in their efforts to pin Rev. Hagee on McCain, in the way that the rightwing has pinned Rev. Wright on Obama. Don’t give up! Americans need to understand…
God bless Al-Jazeera for airing a debate between two Americans that would never take place on American television: John J. Mearsheimer and Norman G. Finkelstein dispute the question, Was Israel’s security a motivator of the Iraq war? Nay, said Finkelstein….