The media has done a decent job eviscerating Trump's acceptance speech and its panoply of lies. So I don't need to go over well-ploughed ground. But I did want to note several Mideast-related foreign policy lies which have been neglected in media commentary. First, Trump said that Iran "Iran is on the path to nuclear weapons." There isn't even a … [Read more...]
Memories of a Palestinian Wound
I read a wonderful review of a new album, Baghani, by the Palestinian performer Amal Murkus that made me want to go right out and buy it--or at least listen to it. Unfortunately, you can't--at least not easily, since no Israeli record company is yet distributing it (it figures). One of my Facebook Friends pointed me to this amazing YouTube video of the … [Read more...]
Ameer Makhoul and Israel’s Sham Justice
When you are a political activist facing a sentence of life to be handed down by a security state in which all the levers of power are arrayed against you; when you are a father and husband facing the prospect of never seeing your daughters till they themselves are grown, married and with children of their own; when you are a man who has faced a lifetime of … [Read more...]
J.J. Goldberg, Mahmoud Darwish: Brothers from Another Planet?
Forward's former managing editor, J.J. Goldberg Now here's a slightly scary thought: the tired, liberal Zionist newspaper editorialist could be a brother of Palestinian national poet, Mahmoud Darwish. Food for thought? … [Read more...]
