When I visited Bethlehem a year back, I got the view north back to Jerusalem–beyond the all-but-encircling concrete barrier–of a sugarloaf of a hill with a gleaming settlement on it. Har Homa was built in the late ’90s, and its…
I grew up middle-class in Baltimore. My parents raised 6 kids on an academic salary and my mother bought all our clothes at thrift shops. From 10 to 12, the object of all my hankering was E.J. Korvette’s. It was…
One of my mentors in Israel/Palestine issues is Boston-area activist Hilda Silverman. She is at once very Jewish (which gives me great comfort) and very concerned with Palestinian human rights. The other day she sent out the following note to…
Abe Foxman may be sawing off the treelimb he’s standing on. People are passing around the JTA’s wonderful/bizarre interview with the ADL director of a week or so back, in which Foxman defends his campaign against recognizing the Armenian genocide,…
Tonight Walt and Mearsheimer appeared with honor at the London School of Economics. It is reported that in the next couple days they will be speaking at the House of Lords and at Chatham House–the Royal Institute of International Affairs….
I missed last night’s event at Yivo Institute cause I felt fluish (rhymes with…). My friend Rob Buchanan, a longtime journalist who teaches journalism at the New School University, went, and had this to report: I went with the news…
For the second time in a week, the Washington Post has teed up the Jews-and-power issue in a defensive manner. Yesterday it was a long piece by Ruth Wisse saying that Jews are a historically powerless people who had to…
Tonight the Yivo Institute in New York is holding a discussion on Walt & Mearsheimer’s book, called “‘The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy’, A Celebration.” Wait, got that wrong– “A Critical Response.” The critical responders are authors Jeffrey Goldberg…
This week two Nobel Peace Prizers knelt before my people–American Jews–to ask them to acknowledge the suffering of the Palestinians. At a church in Boston, Desmond Tutu gave a speech about apartheid and Israel/Palestine. He invoked a passage from Deuteronomy…