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VIDEO: Z Street, the Republican Jewish Coalition and friends
Dear Z Street and RJC: you and your friends are a disgrace to the Jewish experience of history: attacking our President as a foreign usurper and using his heritage as a dirty word (“Muslim”), calling Rahm Emmanuel and others “kapos” and “Nazis” because you disagree with them, and advocating the expulsion of the Palestinians from [...]
Apr 29th, 2010 Israel and Politics 0 Comments
Weisglass sees the changes in American Jewry, why won’t Bibi?
The Israeli media has decided that Netanyahu’s trip to America is a failure. According to press reports, he extended his stay and canceled other meetings to engage in two hearings with Obama directly and late night conferences with Administration staff until 2 am. All which produced no joint statement, no photo op. In the words [...]
Mar 25th, 2010 Israel and Politics 0 Comments
From the AIPAC conference: Alan Dershowitz vs. Hadar Susskind
Alan Dershowitz, once one of the salient minds of the Jewish community, is becoming the cranky old man of the pro-Israel right. His cache as defender of Israel has carried him far into prestige…but he’s not the sharp mind of his youth anymore. In this video, Dershowitz interrupts a Haaretz interview with Hadar Susskind, J [...]
Mar 22nd, 2010 Israel and Politics 3 Comments
Obama left peace out of the State of the Union, but he talked about it today
Obama addressed a question about Middle East peace at a town hall in Tampa, Florida, today (emphases mine). Transcript courtesy of the Jewish liaison from the office of the Vice President, whom I met in DC and who always sends me Presidential quotations she thinks I want to hear. In a marked difference from the [...]
Jan 28th, 2010 Israel and Politics 0 Comments
Erza Nawi sentenced tomorrow
Ezra Nawi, Israeli activist, is due to be sentenced tomorrow for his peacework in the West Bank. He published a letter on The Nation’s web site worth reading. Of lesser susbstance is the Justice Ministry’s official response to petitions to have him freed.
Jun 30th, 2009 Israel and Politics 0 Comments
Join a virtual protest — Crash the state news of Iran
I’m very lucky to have friendly connections to Iranian society — through a number of people, including some Iranian citizens studying in America. Hearing about their crushed hopes that Iranian presidential candidate Mousavi’s likely electoral victory was stolen by unconvincing voter fraud by incumbent President Ahmadinejad is heart breaking. And for the sake of peaceful [...]
Jun 14th, 2009 Politics 1 Comment
Why I’ve Got Obama’s Back
Brit Tzedek v’Shalom launched today a campaign to back Obama’s push for two states, negotiations and an agreed end to hostilities. Sign the pledge! I’ve been working on this campaign for the past two weeks, taking a lead on the social media and web components of it, thus I’m very very excited to see the [...]
May 11th, 2009 Israel and Politics 0 Comments
Is this how the Christian Right felt when Bush was elected?
The euphoria of Obama’s first day in office is incredible. I came to work as any other day and set about my job forgetting about it all. Then in the middle of a conference call I checked the news and saw a huge photo of Obama’s first executive order outlawing torture. My eyes misted, I [...]
Jan 23rd, 2009 Politics 0 Comments
Haaretz ad: There is no democracy without a minority
An ad in today’s Haaretz paper against the banning of two Israeli Arab parties signed by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and several other democratic and civil rights organizations: Translation: THERE IS NO DEMOCRACY WITHOUT A MINORITY The Elections Committee banned / barred the Balad and Ra-am-Ta’al parties from running in the upcoming [...]
Jan 15th, 2009 Israel and Politics 0 Comments