A couple weeks back, I criticized Americans for Peace Now for remaining on the executive board of AIPAC; and Dan Fleshler responded to me on his blog, in a post called “Are Pro-Israel doves part of the ‘lobby’?” Weiss does…
First, an apology to readers. I’m moving, so my posts will be intermittent. Also: I’m aware of what a lousy job I’ve done of monitoring comments, reading them. Very unprofessional. It has in part to do with time/pay. I might…
The NY Post covered the anti-settlement protests at the diamond store opening the other night as celeb gossip, noting that Susan Sarandon crossed the picket line (so much for the left’s braintrust…) to go inside. Observers have commented on the…
More than five years ago, Adam Shatz, then the Nation magazine’s literary editor, wrote an important piece about the left’s response to 9/11. One of Shatz’s targets was Dissent magazine liberals who were pushing for war in Iraq. For them,…
My side will win. Why? Because the movement is growing inside Jewish culture to call attention to the destruction of Palestinian lives. And Jewish culture is, like it or not, really important in the American discourse. Note that the Jewish…
A friend has passed along Norman Pearlstine’s piece in WSJ urging Michael Mukasey to drop the AIPAC case. Pearlstine argues that the lobbyists were performing routine business: there have been few prosecutions of government leakers for espionage in recent decades…
On TPM, the main approach that commenters have to Mukasey’s approval is to talk about AIPAC: Mukasey’s Jewishness, and the Jewishness of Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein, the NY and Cal senators who gave him the votes he needed. Meantime,…
I’m trying to mint the term “religious left.” This Thursday night the religious left is having a hoe-down at the Grand Hyatt in New York, a fundraiser for the Jewish settlers who who have colonized central Hebron, the second-largest Arab…
There’s an attack on Norman in Jewlicious, referring to comments he made about his Jewishness in Nextbook, but the best piece I’ve seen is The American Conservative’s interview of five years back. The folks from TAC asked about Israel and…