In an effort to distance himself from his new company, the realists who, like him, oppose the Israel lobby, Jeffrey Goldberg has repeated his ugly claim that Walt and Mearsheimer are antisemites. One reason they’re antisemites, he says, is in…
Richard Silverstein has attacked Jodi Kantor’s piece on Obama and the Jews in the Times yesterday. Silverstein is a hopeful liberal, and he says that the Jewish vote will go 80 percent for Obama, that the young are ready to…
Glenn Condell says he managed to publish a letter in the Sydney Morning Herald, protesting censorship by the Israel lobby, after much “argy bargy.” It reminded me of the Aussieism, “agro,” for aggressive. I asked him to define argy bargy….
Jerry Haber, the Magnes Zionist, has a lovely post about a conversation with his 94-year-old father about Obama. Dad was a Big Jew, active in the Israel lobby in the U.S. Jerry is an evolved Zionist who lives half the…
Now that Jeffrey Goldberg has moved to their position, he finds it necessary to smear Walt and Mearsheimer, lately calling them “vile” so as to preserve his own good standing in the neoconlib Jewish world. This is tactical and offensive….
Last night I wrote about raw divisions inside Jewish families, including mine, over Israel. Well there are divisions over Obama too. The Times has an OK piece about Jewish voters in FL that (once again supports the notion that McCain/Hillary/Obama’s…
I’m not the best source on Jewish liturgy but I remember that at Yom Kippur they open the doors of the ark, the cabinet of the law, and later warn you that the doors are closing. The days of atonement…
This piece in Vanity Fair online is historic: it is an open discussion, in a glossy social column, of the social resentment among WASPs toward the new wealth, the Jews and their allegedly-gauche manners, in this instance the (truly) horrifying…
Commentary and I agree for once. Jeffrey Goldberg has embraced Walt and Mearsheimer. After trashing the brave authors last year, says Commentary, Goldberg concedes most of their substantive case. Hooray. Earlier today I said Goldberg showed real courage, and spent…