Advertisements I will continue to defend the rights of those urging sensible economic actions against the occupation, as I did when writing about the divestment proposition at UC Berkeley. Such efforts, even if I don’t agree with them are not, by definition, anti-Israel, much less anti-Semitic. As I’ve said, thereContinue Reading
Advertisements MJ Rosenberg reprints dozens of Democrats’ statements on the Gaza flotilla fiasco today in his Media Matters piece. He doesn’t bother with the Republicans, which are worse, but also to be expected. And the Democrats he quotes include some supported by J Street. This points to a pretty wideContinue Reading
Advertisements Some of my readers here, at least those of you gracious enough to have borne with me despite my lack of recent postings, will be aware that I have left B’Tselem and don’t really know where I’m going next. In the meantime, I hope to be posting more inContinue Reading
Advertisements Spencer Ackerman has an excellent and succinct post on the hypocrisy abounding now that the American Jewish leadership has decided Turkey is an enemy, so they have stopped lobbying against recognition of the Armenian genocide. He’s nicer about it than I am. This has long been something I’ve found truly disgusting,Continue Reading
Advertisements There’s a lot more information out now about the disastrous Israeli attack on the flotilla that was heading to Gaza last weekend. That doesn’t necessarily mean more clarity about what actually happened, but there’s enough to start assessing at least some of the impact. There aren’t a lot ofContinue Reading
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