I’m still doing penance for making mean comments about Aaron David Miller’s book, The Much Too Promised Land, after reading just 30 pages or so. I’ll be doing penance for a long time. Now I’m 300 pages in, and it’s…
Haaretz does a story the mainstream U.S. press should be doing: what is the effect of Birthright, which has so far brought 160,000 American Jews to Israel, and is gonna bring another 60,000 there this summer (many of them at…
God bless the Jewish tradition in journalism and the arts. Author Jonathan Littell is more assimilated than I am. This is a wonderful conversation about the political uses of the Holocaust. In Haaretz. Only Haaretz. Would you define yourself as…
I always feel guilty when I make posts like this. I feel that I’m arming anti-semites. Then I say, I can’t care, and the only question is whether what I’m saying is true. And I think it is true. So…
I often criticize the New York Times on this site, in fact I am about to get out my rusty Judy Miller popgun later for the Scott McClellan story. But today we really must celebrate the Times. Yesterday it ran…
John Mearsheimer isn’t entitled. He went on Israel National Radio to answer questions from two raving Israeli Zionists, Jeremy Gimpel and Ari Abramowitz, who start out by accusing him of “not necessarily the oldfashioned antisemitism” but “the sophisticated antisemitism… anti…
In a Newsweek interview, Jeremy Ben-Ami of J Street, the new Israel lobby, takes a position that Jeffrey Goldberg says is antisemitic: that 9/11 flowed in part from our policies in supporting Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. Q. You’ll…
I took Michael Steinhardt and his daughter Sara Berman at their word when they said the charter school teaching Hebrew, in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, is just about spreading Hebrew culture, not about pushing Zionism. Joachim Martillo sees a pro-Israel agenda,…
Jonathan Gray has responded to my post that mentioned him and says I’ve misrepresented his views, and suggests that I made a racist comment, to boot. He writes: As for your desire to have me attack Sam [Freedman] about the…