It’s no secret that in the past four years under Pres. Trump white supremacy has been in the ascendancy. While in the past, Americans could argue that this racist ideology existed only on the bare margins of society, Trump has proven, in the words of the old radio serial, “what evil lurks in the hearts […]
Beinart’s ‘Road to a New Jerusalem’
NOTE: Middle East Eye just published my latest piece on Israel’s attack on Iran’s Natanz centrifuge production facility. Please give it a read. As Christians will know, the founder of the Church, Paul, had a “conversion” on the road to Damascus, (the ‘Damascene Conversion’), which led him to break with his Jewish past and found […]
J Street, Bernie Sanders, and the Two-State Dead End
This is an expanded version of an article recently published in Middle East Eye: In 2008, in the midst of a historic presidential campaign that would bring Barack Obama to the White House, a group of liberal Zionists disenchanted with the stranglehold Aipac had on Israel-related discourse in the U.S., founded an alternative Lobby. The […]
Israel is a Kahanist State
Bibi Netanyahu’s recent comments about the nature of the Israeli state have exposed both him and the nation as a joint Kahanist enterprise. Until now, Netanyahu played it coy. He was like the old Enlightenment saying: be a Jew at home and a human being in public. With the Israeli public, he spoke candidly and […]
