Today is Yom HaShoah, an international day of mourning for victims of the Holocaust. I have written often here on this subject. When I was a graduate student I compiled the oral history of an Auschwitz survivor, publishing it in the Los Angeles Times on Yom Hashoah 1977. In the 1990s, I visited Theresienstadt while leading a New York Jewish Federation … [Read more...]
Aipac Conference Ends Amid Dissension and Democratic Presidential No-Shows
NOTE: What follows is an expanded version of a piece Middle East Eye published earlier this week. It's also been updated to reflect news developments which happened after it was published by MEE, towards the end of the Conference. I also did an hour interview on Ray Hanania's Middle East podcast this week. We're old hands at this, and have known each … [Read more...]
Twitter Outlaws “Yid” as “Hate Speech”
Today is Censorship Day at my blog. Today, a group of pro-Israel Twitter trolls joined in reporting my account after I called one of them a treife Yid. Here is a different post in the thread containing the same phrase, which apparently Twitter had not (yet) censored. The culprits behind the lock-out of my account are the two mentioned in the tweet: Lern … [Read more...]
Israel Lobby and Pro-Israel House Democrats Tried to Excommunicate Ilhan Omar, They Failed
NOTE: This is a substantially expanded version of a piece published yesterday by Al Jazeera. It's the first op-ed I've published there in ten years, so it's an auspicious development. My KPFA Flashpoints interview discussing the subject can be heard here. For those who don't remember their medieval history, during the Spanish Inquisition the newly … [Read more...]
