This is the caption on one of the signs (see photo at right) held at a protest against the "Ground Zero Mosque" yesterday, August 22. So t…
Read moreI haven't weighed in on this issue, even though I am about to become a part-time New Yorker, because much ink has been spilled and everyone who r…
Read moreA big debate has broken out in the UK over Tony Blair's announcement that he will donate the entire proceeds from publication of his memoir (whi…
Read moreThere is a lot of excitement building over this fall's planned wave of boats to Gaza, including one from New York organized by USTOGAZA . The spo…
Read moreA few days ago, the music section of the New York Times carried a piece by Jon Caramanica entitled "Girl Pop's Lady Gaga Makeover." T…
Read moreOne of the most outrageous aspects of the so-called "Jewish state" is the monopoly given to Orthodox Judaism in deciding not only matters o…
Read moreThe Israeli human rights organization Gisha , which fights for the rights of movement of Gazans, has launched a new computer game designed to illustr…
Read more... to an Israeli tear gas canister while protesting the Israeli blockade of Gaza. An American Jewish artist, she saw injustice clearly and tried to …
Read moreI want to call the attention of readers to what I think is one of the best, if not the best, blogs on the Middle East and Israel-Palestine in partic…
Read moreToday's Washington Post has a post-mortem on the primary elections which makes clear that the Tea Party is not quite the powerful movement it w…
Read more... by Gershom Gorenberg, pictured at right, appears in The American Prospect. Gorenberg has a long history of trying to talk sense to Israelis, not…
Read moreColumnist Gideon Levy of Ha'aretz called it right yesterday when he predicted that Israel would do something stupid today. In a piece entitled &…
Read moreThat's according to a Human Rights Watch report on the Israeli operation "Cast Lead," available at this link . Read it and weep.
Read moreNoam Chomsky and a number of other noted scientists have issued an open letter to Boston's Museum of Science, condemning it for hosting "Is…
Read moreIt didn't take more than a few days for the airline industry to start slamming European officials responsible for air traffic safety, and the med…
Read moreIt would appear that the smoking finger is now being pointed directly at Pope Benedict XVI, as the New York Times today ties him directly to the se…
Read moreI have searched in vain trying to find the original source of this expression, which I recall from the 1960s. If anyone here can provide a source for…
Read moreSometimes visual aids are necessary to see just what the Israelis are up to in Jerusalem and the West Bank. This map and the legend below are from t…
Read moreIsrael's annexation of East Jerusalem is understood by pretty much every nation, including the United States, as a violation of international law…
Read moreHere's the lede of a story in the New York Times today: The Obama administration on Friday gave up on its plan to try the Sept. 11 plotters in …
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