Claire Paddock reports from the opening night of “The Death of Klinghoffer” at The Metropolitan Opera in New York City.

“Another Jew!” Speakers at a Klinghoffer rally single out Peter Gelb, James Levine, and Alice Goodman and other Jews as Jews who are supporting anti-Semitism.

The question of Palestine, or rather the question of Palestinian statehood is plaguing the Israeli government and now the pages of the New York Times. In a round table of op-eds Nadia Hijab, Avital Leibovich, Efraim Halevy, Nathan Thrall, Caroline B. Glick, Richard Ottaway, and Omar Barghouti, weigh in on the domino effect of declarations of sovereignty over the occupied territories from the past month.

Rabbi Jill Jacobs in the Washington Post joins former Ambassador Marc Ginsberg in calling on an end to federal tax break for nonprofits helping settlement construction in Palestine

A Times article praising life for Israelis in Berlin in today’s paper exposes a frontpage article in the paper three weeks ago on the demon of anti-Semitism rising in Germany as hasbara hysteria

Steven Salaita’s book “Israel’s Dead Soul” (2011) merits serious attention and ultimately effusive praise. It contains five critical essays that not only offer brilliant insight into the cultural and ideological practices of Zionism in both Israel and the United States, but implicitly explain why his conscientious efforts would be denigrated and rejected by the ostensibly liberal aspects of this culture at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Professor Max Weiss says a member of the Jewish Agency vetoed his invitation to speak on a panel about Gaza at Princeton University. He writes, “Apparently this preemptive act of exclusion was carried out on entirely political grounds. This strikes me as an attempt to stifle the exchange of views on an important, if contentious, issue of concern to many in the Princeton University community — an egregious violation of our community’s values.”

Ambassador Marc Ginsberg, a Clintonite and Israel supporters, turns on Netanyahu for placing the country on the “wrong side of history” and for endangering its most important relationship, to the U.S.

Oskar Schindler’s redemptive life is a legacy, an invitation to all of us to move past our self centered concerns and figure out how we can contribute to the saving of innocent lives. Today it tells us to throw our energy into supporting the people of Palestine

The NY Review of Books leaves till the last paragraph of an article on the failed peace process that a “domestic” power of Israel in the U.S. foiled the efforts. When is the journal going to address the Israel lobby directly?