Advertisements The head of the Mossad spy agency was recently in Washington to coordinate with the White House on plans to expel Palestinians from Gaza. The plan, along with the forced starvation and mass killing of Gazans, echoes the worst of the Shoah. Read more at MondoweissContinue Reading
Advertisements Over at Medium, I’ve published a piece on the controversy around Whoopi Goldberg’s regrettable statements and the conversation it has generated. I hope you’ll read it and share. I’d love to hear what you think, so feel free to comment.Continue Reading
Advertisements This piece originally appeared at Souciant’s new blog. Check it out for a great deal of brilliant and different progressive thought. I wrote recently about the apoplectic reaction of some members of Russia’s Jewish community to Stephen Fry’s very accurate comparison of the atmosphere in Germany at the beginningContinue Reading
Advertisements There is a movement afoot, with some big stars lending their names, to move the 2014 Winter Olympics from Sochi in Russia, or to boycott those games over the increasing volume of hate against LGBT folk in Russia. Not a few are drawing the entirely accurate comparison to theContinue Reading
Advertisements In my latest piece for Souciant, I take on the growing use of Holocaust rhetoric to support an Israeli attack on Iran. In particular, the idea that Jews are more justified in drastic acts of self-defense because of the traumatic effect of the Holocaust that still lingers. Also, Souciant has weatheredContinue Reading
