I delivered this paper last month at the UC Berkeley conference, Virtual Internment: Islamophobia, Surveillance and Unequal Citizenship. It was sponsored by the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project directed by Hatem Bazian. The video of my talk is posted here. Israel’s military-intelligence apparatus specializes in developing cyber-technology, … [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...]
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 Perspectives on … [Read more...]
On MBS: the Shamelessness of Pro-Israel Think Tank Mandarins
There is an influential group of pro-Israel think-tank mandarins who ply the Democratic foreign policy circuit. They're columnists for major newspapers, advisors to Democratic presidents, and ambassadors. There are many in the group who've earned their living offering sage advice to a series of U.S. leaders. But in this post I want to focus on Tom … [Read more...]
