Antony Loewenstein, the Australian author, reports on the recent visit down under of Jeff Halper: Jeff Halper, Israeli/American peace activist, retired anthropologist and head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), writes in his recent book, An Israeli in…
It never stops. The BBC contends that the Israeli government is condoning the construction of a new road on Palestinian land from the established settlement of Eli on high land in the central West Bank eastward toward an outpost. What…
The new consensus, led by Michael Walzer: defeat the settler movement. I’m all for it, though it is a little like closing the barn door after the horse is gone. Here is Hitchens at Slate: The zealot settlers and their…
J Street has a new poll out on American Jewish attitudes that has some fascinating wrinkles re Middle East policy. Including the fact that 60 percent of American Jews oppose the settlements in the West Bank. And that 32 percent…
After last Monday’s 92d Street Y panel on a liberal Jewish lobby, Justin Elliott of TPM did this wonderful interview with one of the panelists, Michelle Goldberg. Goldberg is a lover of Israel who is agonized about what Avigdor Lieberman…
Yesterday I went on Press TV to discuss the Israel lobby with Elazar Barkan and Dan Fleshler, and after the taping, the three of us hung out in a hallway talking. We all disagreed about what the lobby is. I’d…
Following Phil’s report on Nadia Matar’s call to assassinate Mahmoud Abbas at Safra Synagogue in Manhattan, J Street has taken up the issue. Today they are reporting on their blog that Rabbi Elie Abadie of Safra Synagogue has renounced Matar’s…
A number of people have asked if I have a recording for the report that Israeli colonist Nadia Matar called for the killing of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas last night during a lecture at the Safra Synagogue on E. 63rd…
A few impressions of being in the company of the settler movement last night in New York: The meeting’s in the basement of a rich stone synagogue. The crowd aren’t rich people, they’re cause people, rough around the edges, a…