This blog has been mentioned in the New York Times (OK, it was just the real estate blog–but still), the Financial Times, and other publications. But today’s coverage in The Forward really means a lot to me. Both because it is a publication I generally respect a great deal. And because its independent-minded [...]
Read full post...No, the sky is not falling despite what Alan Dershowitz, Marty Peretz, Abe Foxman and the other “professional Jews” are telling us about Jimmy Carter’s “dangerous” new book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. Unlike what the professional Jewish alarmists will tell you, Carter is no anti-Semite. He is not an Arab-lover. He doesn’t [...]
Read full post...Say what, you say. Why would Aipac have anything to say about Congressional ethics legislation?
First, let’s explain that the Democrats took control of Congress on the strength of (among other things) a promise to overhaul Congressional ethics and limit the power of lobbyists. Among the proposed reforms are ones that would disallow Congressional [...]
Republican Jewish Coalition attack ad featuring former Aipac director
Everybody knows that the Republican Jewish Coalition is the home of some of the most scurrilous uber-Israel propaganda to ever grace the air waves and printed page regarding Democrats supposed perfidy toward the Jewish State. But fewer know about the role that Aipac (or specifically Republican [...]
Excuse me while I barf at Jennifer Siegel’s awful, stupid piece of journalism at the Forward which posits this dubious proposition:
Bloggers — as the feisty class of Internet pundits are known — love to paint themselves as free-speech warriors who bravely tackle the hard truths that mainstream media outlets either ignore or distort. But as [...]
Something remarkable is happening within elements of the American Jewish media regarding the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Except for The Forward, and rarely Jewish Week, I don’t usually find much value in coverage of Israeli politics and the country’s relations with its Arab neighbors, including the Palestinians. I do review these publications in [...]
Read full post...Ori Nir reports in The Forward that pro-Israel neocon, Malcolm Hoenlein and his Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations “umbrella” group have entered the fray against the Palestinian Prisoner’s Document which seeks Hamas’ acceptance of a two-state solution and an end to terror attacks outside of the Green Line (among other things). Many Palestinians, Israelis [...]
Read full post...Tony Kushner: a Jewish David Duke?? (photo: Performlink.com)
Let it not be said that we Jews don’t have the same types of bilious and vengeful folk who are also known to frequent the evangelical movement. The James Dobsons and Pat Robertsons of the Jewish world are channeled by Mort Klein, eternal president of the [...]
Gershon Gorenberg notes in The Forward that Ehud Olmert has decided to speed up his timetable for the “major” West Bank settlement withdrawal he touted during the recent election campaign. He plans to complete it within 18 months. According to Gorenberg, Olmert had two considerations in mind. One is that he believes [...]
Read full post...Leonard Fein, founder of Moment Magazine, is bucking the AIPAC juggernaut in calling its signature legislative proposal, the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act (H.R. 4681), “a piece of meddlesome foolishness.” He published More Pro-Israel Than Israel in The Forward:
They may be all smiles here, but Condi can’t be happy with Ros-Lehtinen’s draconian Palestinian Anti-Terrorism bill [...]
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