This is yet another in my series of posts about terrorism in Israel, both the latest attacks, and the Israeli oppression and terror which incite Palestinian counter-violence. Yesterday’s post recounted the particularly heinous murder of a Palestinian widow and mother of six gunned down at a West Bank checkpoint. The hasbara brigade has gone into […]
Sally Rooney, BDS, and the Literary Boycott Commandeering Language on Behalf of Apartheid
Sally Rooney ignited the latest hasbara tempest-in-a-teapot with her announcement that she would not be translating her latest novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You? into Hebrew with her current Israeli publisher: The statement expressed her desire to support the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement (BDS), a campaign that works to “end international support for Israel’s oppression […]
American Jewry: Dead or Dying?
Over the past few years, I’ve been chronicling what I consider the slow demise of American Jewry. Or I should say the slow demise of the leading organizations and leadership of American Jews. I’ve written a chapter called, Israel and the Closing of the American Jewish Mind, for an essay collection, Israel and Palestine: Alternative […]
Mondoweiss, Speech Police, and the Smugness of the Anti-Zionist Left
I wanted to come back to a subject of my last post on Valdary, which discussed the political rhetoric I’d used to criticize her. I called her a “Negro Zionist” and Uncle Tom. I wasn’t surprised at the showering of lies and invective from the uber-Israelites. But I wasn’t prepared to have Phil Weiss, Scott […]
