Is debate about its history now taboo in Israel?
The photo at right is of Lisa Strombom, a PhD student at Lund University in Sweden. She has just completed and defended (yesterday) a thesis about th…
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Courageous young Jews disrupt Netanyahu speech at Jewish Federations General Assembly
Young Jews Disrupt Netanyahu at Jewish General Assembly from stefanie fox on Vimeo . I'm sure that some critics will try to brand the heroic ac…
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Getz and Coltrane together
This blog is supposed to be about many things, including jazz, but I've been so busy lately I didn't even blog about going to see the sensa…
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Anti-racist actions in Manhattan
Yesterday, September 11, saw three demonstrations in lower Manhattan: One of bigots opposed to the building of an Islamic cultural center at 51 Park …
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Cooking the intelligence on Iraq's alleged WMDs
The August 19 New York Review of Books features an important letter from former intelligence officer Fulton Armstrong about how the Bush administra…
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More on that "Ground Zero Mosque"
I’ve been debating this issue with a Jewish friend of mine who is against the mosque but should know better (he is a liberal and voted for Obama, but…
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You can build a mosque at ground zero when we can build a synogogue in Mecca
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…
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Madness over Manhattan mosque
I 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…
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Generous gesture or guilty conscience?
A 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…
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"Defining Israel as a Jewish state condemns us to living in a racist state."
So says Gideon Levy in a superb column in Haaretz . Please read it. Thanks again to the superb Mondoweiss blog for the heads up.
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My book about Neolithic Catalhoyuk in Turkey and the origins of civilization, the paperback edition. For more information about it, please visit MY WEB SITE
- Michael Balter
- I have been a working journalist for more than 40 years, beginning in Los Angeles as an investigative reporter and then in Paris as a travel, food, and science writer. For more than 20 years I have covered anthropology and archaeology writer for Science, Audubon, Scientific American, SAPIENS, and other publications. I have also covered sexual misconduct for The Verge, Scientific American, and others; I write about mental health, especially schizophrenia; and I engage in occasional media criticism. I returned to the USA in October 2017 after 30 years in Paris, and now live in the New York City area, where I currently teach journalism at City College of New York (I previously taught journalism at Boston University and New York University.) For more about me and what I do, copies of my articles, information about my book, and other goodies, please visit MY WEB SITE
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