From the Forward profile on Congressman Howard Berman: Berman’s Jewish background was central to his getting involved with foreign policy issues. Indeed, earlier this month he told the Forward that an interest in the Jewish state was one of the…
I’m still thinking about the Nakba panel at Columbia last night. Christopher Varley tells me of a tee shirt he once saw a young Arab wearing in Jerusalem: “So how far east do you want me to move?” The Palestinian…
The Forward’s analysis of the Pennsylvania results, in which Hillary Clinton captured 62 percent of the Jewish vote, in part by announcing on the morning of the primary that we would “obliterate” Iran if it attacked Israel, is that Israel…
Today cable news shows trotted out two black commentators, Jonathan Capeheart of the Washington Post and–I’m going to get this wrong–but someone I believe is named Maria Wall of the Washington Times, to say in so many words that Rev….
I criticize the Times too much. Today it has a fabulous piece of reporting, by Andrea Elliott, on how Debbie Almontaser was forced out as principal of the Khalil Gibran school for Arabic in Brooklyn by a gang of anti-Islamic…
Rev. Wright isn’t crawling under a rock, he’s standing up for himself, good for him, today reminding the media that he served six years in the Marine Corps, somewhat longer than Dick Cheney served. And two nights back, he gave…
I had a few responses to comments on my post about Jewish superiority. I agree Richard that the narrative has happened before, of Jews having court power and being expelled or worse. But I feel like this history is too…
I’m still caught up in Ambassador Gillerman’s statement that Israel is a “far better” country than most others because it produces scientific and artistic talent. My friend Richard Witty acknowledges that this attitude is unfortunate when he hears it from…
The world is changing. The Associated Press has a wonderful story on the Nakba. Israel’s joy over independence after two millennia of Jewish exile has been the Palestinians’ “naqba” — their catastrophe. The state they were to have in a…