Category Archives: Jews
Will I save liberal Zionism?
I’ve been working on this blog post ever since I first read Peter Beinart’s excellent piece at the beginning of the week in the New York Review of Books about the relationship between American Jews and Israel, the failure of … Continue reading
Filed under Israel-Palestine, Jews
This year in Egypt
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Exodus 22:21 Last night marked the beginning of Passover, the holiday where Jews around the world celebrate the Jewish liberation from slavery … Continue reading
Filed under Egypt, Holidays, Israel-Palestine, Jews, Life Abroad, Personal Stuff
Obama can’t stand up to pushy Jersey girl
It’s hard to make me not feel proud about being from New Jersey. But this does: That’s Robin Benosf of Teaneck, New Jersey (a mere twenty-five minutes from my hometown) laying the cornerstone for a new settlement in East Jerusalem. … Continue reading
Filed under American Politics, Diplomacy, Israel-Palestine, Jews
An unfortunate meme
Here’s a pretty ugly video that’s been circulating on many of the blogs that I read. It shows a bunch of drunk, stupid American Jews in Israel incoherently trashing President Obama and his Muslim sympathies. For someone like Phil Weiss … Continue reading
Filed under American Politics, Beer, College, Israel-Palestine, Jews, Mistakes
Marty Peretz makes me say “Oy gevalte!”
And I don’t mean that in a cute way. Why is he continuously allowed to voice his fatuous, pseudo-racist opinions in the pages of an otherwise respectable magazine like The New Republic? Case in point, Peretz talking about recent diplomacy … Continue reading
Filed under Israel-Palestine, Jews, Media
Postmodern Holocaust denial?
There’s an interesting dialogue at Standpoint Online (I’d never heard of it before) between Israeli author AB Yehoshua and British author Howard Jacobson. (Via Jeffrey Goldberg, of course.) I don’t agree with everything they say, but really appreciate their discussion … Continue reading
Filed under History, Israel-Palestine, Jews, Postmodernism
Saturday Afternoon TV
Check out these TPMtv interviews with Eric Alterman, Jeremy Ben-Ami, and Michelle Goldberg after a discussion at the 92nd St. Y about the need for a liberal Israel lobby. It’s about twenty minutes of video, but it’s interesting stuff.
Filed under Israel-Palestine, Jews
Was Obama right to drop Charles Freeman?
Fred Kaplan at Slate has another perspective on the Chas Freeman withdrawal: He thinks that Obama made the right decision in letting Freeman go, not because Freeman was unqualified to be the chairman of the National Intelligence Council, but because … Continue reading
Filed under American Politics, Democracy, Diplomacy, Intelligence, Israel-Palestine, Jews
Whoa! Freeman dropped out!
I’m not one of those people who thinks that the Israel lobby is some all powerful force that controls Washington. I know that Jews don’t control the media, I didn’t even fully agree with a lot of Walt and Mearsheimer’s book. … I think that this incident is going to vindicate the foes of the Israel lobby. This is going to give them a good example to point to and say, “Look at the power of these people!” Continue reading
Filed under American Politics, Diplomacy, Israel-Palestine, Jews
Bahrain’s new ambassador
Apparently, Bahrain’s new ambassador to the United States is a Jewish woman, according to Haaretz. She looks like this: Cool.
