Despite the P5+1 nuclear deal between Iran and western powers including the U.S., there are many members of the Chattering Classes--Jewish neo-cons, Israeli Prime Ministers, and the like--who cannot make peace with the fact that Iran is not the demon state they make it out to be. Among this lot are Jeffrey Goldberg and Aaron David Miller. Both are members of … [Read more...]
The Jingoism of Anti-Jihadism
Since 9/11, there has been a rampant and fashionable strain of Islamophobia among western politicians, journalists and analysts. It's a response in part to the militant jihadism of the sort that perpetrated the 9/11 attacks. Bibi Netanyahu is perhaps the master of anti-jihadist rhetoric. Shortly after the Al Qaeda attack, the NY Times quoted him: Asked … [Read more...]
FoxNews Says Brandeis Withdrawal of Honorary Degree for Hirsi Ali is “Honor-Killing”
My only regret in reading Zev Chafets' slash and burn article on FoxNews about the Brandeis-Hirsi Ali controversy is that he didn't name me as a "suspect" in the "honor-killing" of Hirsi Ali's degree. Instead, the Likudist sychophantic biographer of Roger Ailes and Rush Limbaugh, reserved his ire for CAIR: Brandeis University committed an honor killing … [Read more...]
Jeffrey Goldberg, Kahane Disciple
Last week, Yasha Levine sent me an amazing post he wrote about the intellectual influences of Kahanism on Jeffrey Goldberg. Yasha did something few of us had--he actually read Goldberg's book, Survivors. In it, he discovered that Goldberg had been a disciple of Meir Kahane. And though he writes in the past tense about his flirtation with Kahanism, it's … [Read more...]