Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place

The saga of Carla Cohen, owner of Washington DC’s pre-eminent independent bookstore Politics and Prose, continues as we conduct an e-mail exchange that began after her original decision to cancel Saree Makdisi’s appearance at her bookstore because he advocates a one-state solution.
Once Carla changed her mind and re-invited Makdisi I was inclined to give her [...]

Philip Weiss has written a terrific article in The Nation (and republished at CBSNews.com ), Ferment Over the Israel Lobby, providing a history of previous academic critiques of the pro-Israel lobby (including several by prominent figures who’ve been bullied into silence or could not find any publishing outlet for their work). Weiss also portrays [...]