Again I wonder why we’re not seeing this story in the U.S. press, but Haaretz reports that Condoleezza Rice regards the system of bizarre and freakishly discriminatory laws that govern Palestinian life in the West Bank as being like Jim…
Here’s a link to a powerful article (in the Harvard/MIT journal International Security) on the tremendous damage done to the U.S. by faulty press coverage of Israel/Palestine, by Jerome Slater, a scholar at SUNY Buffalo. Apropos of my posts on…
Law professor Peter Berkowitz is one of Giuliani’s neoconservative braintrust: “his Senior Statecraft, Human Rights and Freedom Advisor.” In a piece in the Weekly Standard a couple of years ago, the new human rights and freedom advisor expressed grave concern…
Three weeks ago I reported that Newsweek senior editor Michael Hirsh said at a SAIS panel that the “Israel lobby” was pushing for an attack on Iran. Hirsh was liberated to state what is obvious, I ventured, by the effect…
It takes me a while to understand stuff I see with my own eyes. In my post last night about CAMERA’s conference on Israel’s Jewish defamers (which I paid $40 to attend), I failed to linger on executive director Andrea…
Yesterday CAMERA (the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America) held a conference on fighting “Jewish defamers of Israel.” A couple hundred people in the basement of the Park Avenue Synagogue– that beacon to assimilationist German Jews. I…
Iranian-American realist scholar Trita Parsi, a protege of Fukuyama, has been making the rounds of the left to talk about his new book Treacherous Alliance: the Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the U.S. The book is extremely powerful. After…
An amazing new study by two Jewish scholars underwritten by the Bronfman foundation echoes just what I’ve been saying in this space about Jewish identity and Israel. Titled “Beyond Distancing: Young Adult American Jews and Their Alienation From Israel,” the…
This Sunday, CAMERA, the Committe for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, is holding a conference about Jewish defamers of Israel. Their word, defame. Cynthia Ozick will be there, so will Alvin Rosenfeld, who wrote the paper for the…