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Rep. Michael Grimm Threatens to Throw Reporter Off Capitol Balcony michael grimm muscle man

Rep. Michael Grimm Threatens to Throw Reporter Off Capitol Balcony

Richard Silverstein January 28, 2014

The sub-headline of this story: Godfather Goes to Washington. Michael Grimm seems to be letting the FBI...

Pete Seeger Dies: Where Have All the Folk Legends Gone?

Richard Silverstein January 28, 2014

To lose both Pete Seeger and Shulamit Aloni in the same week: the world seems an especially...

Bibi, Israel Lobby Give Obama Congressional Ally Semi-Public Flogging for Opposing Iran Sanctions Bill Economist iran cartoon

Bibi, Israel Lobby Give Obama Congressional Ally Semi-Public Flogging for Opposing Iran Sanctions Bill

Richard Silverstein January 25, 2014

While it’s still too early to tell, the prospects in Congress for a new set of draconian...

Germans Still Tone-Deaf Over Holocaust, Continue Offending Jews Through Ignorance or Worse

Richard Silverstein January 23, 2014

We’re now 70 years since the greatest act of genocide in the history of the human race...

Rabbi Pinto’s ‘Generosity’ Extends Up GOP Food Chain grimm netanyahu

Rabbi Pinto’s ‘Generosity’ Extends Up GOP Food Chain

Richard Silverstein January 18, 2014

In a recent post, I relayed a very smart theory posed to me by a journalist friend...

Israeli Miracle Rabbi Turns State’s Witness Against Both Rep. Grimm and Senior Israeli Police Commander rabbi pinto lev leviev arbiv

Israeli Miracle Rabbi Turns State’s Witness Against Both Rep. Grimm and Senior Israeli Police Commander

Richard Silverstein January 16, 2014

Yesterday, an Israeli judge acknowledged the charade that the gag order in the Miracle rabbi case had...

New Charges in Rep. Grimm Case, Israeli Police Chief and Former Minister Under Suspicion

Richard Silverstein January 15, 2014

I hope you’ll bear with me in this post. I’m going to tie together some disparate characters...

Israeli MK and Right-Wing PR Flack Conspired to Keep U.S. Representative Out of Jail ronn torossian rabbi pinto

Israeli MK and Right-Wing PR Flack Conspired to Keep U.S. Representative Out of Jail

Richard Silverstein January 10, 2014

Today is the second installment in the Israeli-American soap opera I’m calling the Pinto-Grimm scandal. Yesterday, I...

African Refugees ‘Occupy’ Tel Aviv african refugees threat to israel

African Refugees ‘Occupy’ Tel Aviv

Richard Silverstein January 6, 2014

Tonight I am proud and ashamed at the same time. Earlier today, 30,000 African refugees and their...

Israeli Weapons Maker Violates Sanctions, Exports Missile Technology that Ends Up in China, Possibly Iran

Richard Silverstein December 24, 2013

I bet you thought sanctions against Iran were almost ironclad. I bet you thought it could never...

Center for American Progress Beds Down With Corporate Donors, Muzzles Israel-Palestine Debate

Richard Silverstein December 14, 2013

The founder of the Center for American Progress (CAP), John Podesta, is joining the Obama inner circle...

Brandeis President’s Hypocrisy

Richard Silverstein November 23, 2013

In the past week, Brandeis University severed its academic affiliation with Palestine’s Al Quds University due to...

Rep. Michael Grimm Threatens to Throw Reporter Off Capitol Balcony

Pete Seeger Dies: Where Have All the Folk Legends Gone?

Bibi, Israel Lobby Give Obama Congressional Ally Semi-Public Flogging for Opposing Iran Sanctions Bill

Germans Still Tone-Deaf Over Holocaust, Continue Offending Jews Through Ignorance or Worse

Rabbi Pinto’s ‘Generosity’ Extends Up GOP Food Chain

Israeli Miracle Rabbi Turns State’s Witness Against Both Rep. Grimm and Senior Israeli Police Commander

New Charges in Rep. Grimm Case, Israeli Police Chief and Former Minister Under Suspicion

Israeli MK and Right-Wing PR Flack Conspired to Keep U.S. Representative Out of Jail

African Refugees ‘Occupy’ Tel Aviv

Israeli Weapons Maker Violates Sanctions, Exports Missile Technology that Ends Up in China, Possibly Iran

Center for American Progress Beds Down With Corporate Donors, Muzzles Israel-Palestine Debate

Brandeis President’s Hypocrisy

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