Having moved to a house within earshot of the New York city NPR station WNYC, I just heard William Dobson, the managing editor of Foreign Policy, describing the magazine’s story on the top 10 stories you missed in 2007 (to…
In today’s Times, movie reviewer A.O. Scott says that the Muslim terrorist attacks on the west of the last few years are “blowback” to the U.S.’s involvement in the Afghan-Soviet war of the ’80s that is the setting for the…
Two days ago, Charles Ferguson, director of the Iraq-doc “No End In Sight,” was on public radio in New York discussing his work on a book that will extend his film’s findings. His conclusion, he told host Brian Lehrer, was…
My work has been embraced by Kevin MacDonald, a UC-Long Beach prof of psychology who has become controversial for his views of Jews. On his blog, MacDonald writes of my recent post on the Jewish presence in the establishment: Jews…
Ever since the rise of the neocons, my liberal Democratic mother and I have had the same argument. I say, “They’re Jews, and they’re representing Jewish political aims.” She says, “No they’re not. They’re a bunch of rightwing nuts. You…
In today’s Times, there was a profile of rightwing radio host Michael Savage that made something of his Jewishness. Turns out his real name is Weiner and he has a picture of his bar mitzvah in a glass case. “Tell…
I’ve failed to blog about something significant I saw nearly 2 weeks ago, at the Israel Policy Forum annual in New York City. Somewhat sore-thumbish in the large crowd was a tall dark-haired square-jawed guy accompanied by his tall blond…
Israeli colonization schemes, called “settlements,” continue to hum away in the occupied territories. These include expansion of Har Homa, the hilltop suburban landgrab outside Bethlehem, where a forest used to be: in Palestinian geography, Abu Ghneim. Israel considers this part…
Dual loyalty alert. StandWithUs, a pro-Israel group, is paying students $1000 a year to be “campus emissaries for the Jewish state.” As Justin Elliott points out, when was it necessary to pay for activists to be activists? Thus the Israel…