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Juan Cole to Jewish neocons: ‘J’Accuse!’ (photo: Harvard University Gazette)
M.J. Rosenberg just gave me a head’s up about Yale’s withdrawal of a faculty appointment to Juan Cole after a concerted campaign against him from Yale Jewish donors and other Jewish neocons. Both Jewish Week and The Nation report that Cole had been approved by [...]

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 [...]

In A Peculiar Politician, published in The Nation, William Greider sings the praises of Russell Feingold:
Senator Russ Feingold is an embarrassment to the US Senate, which makes him an authentic hero of the Republic. The Wisconsin senator gets up and says out loud what half of the country is thinking and talks about every day. [...]