I just looked at the comment section of the youtube speech by Congressman Howard Berman the other night in Sherman Oaks. It’s stunning how much rage there is toward Berman: Portrait of a hypnotized zionist tool. He can’t even see…
The Harvard Independent has a fine piece in on two Palestinian freshmen, titled “Citizens of Nowhere.” One of the students grew up in a refugee camp in Tyre, Lebanon. The other lives on the West Bank. His village is bisected…
This is an astonishing video. Two nights ago, on February 20, Congressman Howard Berman, the soon-to-be-chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, visited the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association in his Los Angeles district. During the Q-and-A, a couple of audience…
Here is a horrifying portrait of Gaza as an animal pen, in the Middle East Report. Cargo at [Gazan entry points] Kerem Shalom and Sufa is offloaded from trucks and then left on pallets in the open for Palestinians to…
The other day I noted the groundswell response at the Greenwich Library to the nearly-censored group, If Americans Knew, which argues that If “Americans” knew the full scale of what our government and the Israel lobby were licensing against the…
I’m like Michelle Obama today, proud to be a Jew for once! Why? Aussie journalist Antony Loewenstein has a beautiful piece in Haaretz commending newly-elected Australian P.M. Kevin Rudd for his apology to the Aboriginals for the terrors done to…
Campaigns are about establishing important distinctions between candidates and educating the public about issues. Now that she’s in a corner, Hillary Clinton ought to call Barack Obama about his ideas re Israel/Palestine. Many of her supporters clearly believe that Obama…
Here Gershom Gorenberg analyzes the ways that Israeli colonization schemes (settlements) continue in the West Bank in direct violation of the “road map” and other American declarations–for instance, in Har Homa, which Israel considers to be part of Jerusalem–and other…
At Columbia U. the other night the Israeli scholar Idith Zertal sought to explain Palestinian violence. Zertal was speaking on the heels of Rashid Khalidi, a professor at Columbia who in faulting all parties to the Gaza crisis faulted Palestinians…