Advertisements The video of Itamar Ben Gvir abusing and humiliating activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla generated outrage. But where are all these governments when it is Palestinians who endure so much more for so much longer? And why do I argue that we need to avoid making Ben GvirContinue Reading
Advertisements The Israeli government is no longer content to bar access to activists who want to feed and provide medicine to Gazans. It is now going abroad to destroy what little help ordinary citizens can bring to Palestinians. Read more at The BattlegroundContinue Reading
Advertisements A reader at LobeLog asked how I thought Netanyahu’s surprising and long-belated apology to Turkey over the Mavi Marmara killings fit in with my analysis of Obama’s speeches in Jerusalem and Ramallah. I thought my readers here would be interested in my response, so I reprint it below. William, IContinue Reading
Advertisements In this week’s article at Souciant, I examine “two faces” of anti-Semitism, along with the question of whether being anti-Zionist or anti-Israel is the same as being anti-Semitic. As someone who is comfortable neither with the label “Zionist” nor “anti-Zionist” I’d like to think I bring some much neededContinue Reading
Advertisements My latest piece for Babylon Times, hosted by Souciant, reflects on the NY Times’ Thomas Friedman surprisingly confirming the words of Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer in their book The Israel Lobby.Continue Reading
