As indicated below, last Sunday I went to the Church of the Messiah, the Episcopalian Church in Woods Hole, MA, to hear Joshua Rubenstein of Amnesty International. Rubenstein had been invited by a local study group on Middle East issues…
As September looms, bringing publication of Walt and Mearsheimer’s book on the Israel lobby, people are lining up on the issue. 1. This past weekend, I heard Josh Rubenstein of Amnesty International, speaking at an Episcopal church in Woods Hole,…
I went fishing for the first time in a year or two yesterday, on Cape Cod. There’s a lot of pleasure in it: the getting up early, the hanging with a guy you like for a few hours, the risk…
Here is a shocking speech made by Sen. Joe Lieberman last week to the new Israel lobby group: Christians United For Israel. Shocking because it is so filled with religious talk about the Biblical covenant between God and the Jews….
Maybe Typepad’s comment mechanism is screwy–Glenn Greenwald was not able to post the following yesterday in response to my criticism of his book, A Tragic Legacy, and sent it along to me. I’m sure I’ll have some response of my…
In the last few hours I’ve watched two remarkable conversations about race on television. Last night on CBS Evening News, national correspondent Byron Pitts asked black leaders in Philadelphia whether the high murder rate there wasn’t a black problem. They…
In the latest New Republic the Israeli historian Benny Morris raises my favorite issue, dual loyalty, this time with respect to Israeli Arabs. In rejecting author Tom Segev’s likening of the Arab minority in Israel to blacks in the U.S….
I’m reading a surprisingly-good book, The Vanishing American Jew, by Alan M. Dershowitz. Dershowitz can be angry, or mean, but in 1997, when he wrote this book, he had a more open spirit. The book is surprising because Dershowitz and…
Interesting that an editor of the Jewish Week has gone after Eric Alterman for his comments re dual loyalty. So the issue is in the air. Add the Week’s interest to John Judis’s, Gabriel Schoenfeld’s, Alterman’s, and (by implication) Tony…