The biggest amazement so far in the World Cup has not been Ghana’s getting through to the next round, but Ghana player John Paintsil’s spontaneous waving of an Israeli flag after the victory five days ago, out of loyalty to…
Scott McConnell, editor of The American Conservative (and the former editorial page editor of the New York Post who abandoned neoconservatism in part because of the neocon disdain for “people of color”), is recently returned from a trip to the…
PBS’s “Frontline” aired a documentary last night called The Dark Side about the manipulation of intelligence by the vice president’s office in the runup to the Iraq war. This is now an old story, but it was well-told. Frontline assembled…
An entry I did the other day on David Brooks’s column in the Times went over the line in referring to “Jewish writers.” I wish I hadn’t done itÂand thereby given fuel to vile antisemites. I apologize. I have to…
A couple weeks back I said that no American newspaper would print a piece by the great Henry Siegman, the former American Jewish Congress president who has become outspoken on the need for Israel to deal fairly with the Palestinians….
Back when I was a kid, we used to denounce people who used code words for Jews. Rootless cosmopolitans was the classic. The modern variants were “pushy,” “aggressive,” and “New Yorkish.” It was antisemitism cloaked in euphemism. Lately I’ve noticed…
The item I did on John Mearsheimer’s talk at the Naval War College in which he likened Iraq to The Plague has generated a great deal of comment, all favorable. Frankly, I’m honored to have gotten his words out to…
Commenter Miriam Reik points out a significant hole in my reporting from Newport yesterday: I wish Weiss had reported the answer given to the Lt. Commander’s question about “how the Palestinians can combat the Israelis’ foreign influence in the United…
Harvard’s Stephen Walt, being taped by a midshipman The reason I went to the Naval War College was to hear Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, authors of the controversial paper on the Israel lobby, address an audience of officers and…