One of the most important reporters on neoconservatism, Jim Lobe of IPS, has an item on Freedom’s Watch in which he notes the mainstream press’s lazy and fearful shorthand re neoconservatism–“strong supporters of Israel.” Why don’t those reporters spell out…
This weekend I had my first houseguest, a critic of U.S. policy in the Middle East, and he passed on a rumor that he had picked up from an academic, that John Mearsheimer had said privately, or in so many…
Last month the executive director of the American Jewish Committee attacked Walt and Mearsheimer in a speech in Germany for the usual reasons. They’re not antisemitic or they’re antisemitic, they sure smell antisemitic, that whole thread. But here are some…
Amazing news from Israel. Richard Silverstein passes on the information that the novelist A.B. Yehoshua has called on the Bush Administration to remove our ambassador till the Israelis begin to dismantle the settlements. And, notes JTA, Yehoshua lashed out at…
I’ve often written that the neoconservatives became far less transparent about their devotion to Israel once they attained power. It was one thing to write as Jewish intellectuals about Middle East policy in books and little magazines in the 1970s,…
No doubt Bobby Fischer was an anti-semite, but the clip that “All Things Considered” used tonight to demonstrate it was from his rant to Philippines radio after the 9/11 attacks, in which he said that the U.S. was getting payback…
Did I say nice stuff about Mike Huckabee? Please forget it. What follows is an exchange he had with Wolf Blitzer on CNN a few weeks back (I can’t make the link work, so I’m not including it) in which…
There are two ways that supporters of Israel have so far successfully limited the discussion about their influence on American policy. One is by saying the critics are antisemites. Scary. I don’t want to be an antisemite! The other is…
Over the next couple days I’m going to write about an event that took place at Yivo, the Institute for Jewish research, 16 months ago, in Sept. 2006, when at Yivo board member Marty Peretz’s impetus, a group of journalists…