The Jewish Question tormented Europe for centuries. How do emerging nations deal with a state-within-a-state, a people who have been ghettoized and have a corporate sense of themselves as distinct? Jewish difference and exceptionalism (Jewish “genius,” as Commentary puts it)…
Robert Keohane, the international-relations scholar who debated Walt and Mearsheimer at Princeton Monday night, has supplied a copy of his opening comments to the assiduous James Morris, who passed them on to me. Two excerpts: “The charge of anti-Semitism is…
Adalah-New York was understandably upset that Susan Sarandon went shopping at the grand opening of Leviev, the jewelry store owned by a Russian/Israeli Jew who has backed the settlements in the West Bank. Adalah wrote her a letter, asking her…
The Princetonian has an OK piece on last night’s debate at the school featuring Walt and Mearsheimer. How great that Princeton hosted the scholars, how great that it engaged their ideas. (I say OK piece because the Princetonian chose to…
Haaretz reports that half of Europeans believe that Jews are more loyal to Israel than to their home country. Abe Foxman says this shows the rise of traditional anti-semitic stereotype, including the belief that Jews control U.S. foreign policy. Similar…
Here’s a shocker. On Saturday Adalah NY held another protest outside Leviev, the diamond store owned by a proponent of the settlements, and Alan Dershowitz stopped and challenged the protesters to come in, then emerged from the store brandishing his…
The other night I went to the Israel Policy Forum’s annual leadership event at the Grand Hyatt in New York, and I’m going to blog about a number of things that happened there, including my own conversion to a two-state…
The Washington Post is a hotbed of secularism. In yesterday’s paper, Richard Cohen attacked Mike Huckabee for “his obdurate and narrow-minded religious beliefs”–his positions on abortion, stem cells, gun control. Today the Post editorial page justifiably lands on Mitt Romney…
Today’s Haaretz features an interview with Ehud Olmert datelined the U.S. in which the P.M. says that Israel must allow a two-state solution now or face a “South-African style struggle for equal voting rights” that will alienate American Jewish groups….