I’m on Jewish Voice for Peace‘s email list the way you slow down for a car accident. Not because I want to be there. Because I can’t quite believe what I’m looking at, and I...
Tag - AIPAC
F*ck Your Bagels, Zohran
Civics 101, real quick: Jewish Americans have the same constitutional right as every other group of Americans to organize, advocate, donate, lobby, and support whatever political causes they believe...
Is Israel Losing America? Thanks Bibi.
How Netanyahu’s survival instinct, his embrace of the hard right, and twenty years of partisan choices have destroyed the bipartisan consensus that kept Israel safe, empowered Antisemites on...
TJS S3E11 1945-55 part III The Reorganization of American Zionism
We spoke about the suburbs and the shadows, now it is time to talk about Zionism. The ‘Golden decade’ was a time of reorganization in general, and particularly in relation to the newborn...
Newsbits: Trump’s Israel Policy Maven, Oberlin’s Misbevin’, Black Lives Matter’s Craven Cave-In...
OBERLIN COLLEGE in Ohio has placed a professor who made some anti-Israel tweets on leave. Oberlin placed Professor Joy Karega on paid leave and announced she will not be permitted to teach on campus...
AIPAC at Colonus, or The Blind Boys of Alabama Can’t Fix This
In Sophocles’ play, Oedipus at Colonus, and the later Brooklyn rendition of it as Gospel at Colonus starring the Blind Boys of Alabama, Oedipus is blind and near the end of his life. He comes...
Newsbits: White House Liaising, Aipac Plotting, Bethlehem Teaching, Rogen Sausaging, Hoffman Rootsing
Mazal Tov to Washington, DC’s most celebrated Norwegian-speaking, Latina, Jewish woman – Raffi Freedman-Gurspan – who was appointed as POTUS Barack Obama’s primary LGBT White...
Ben Gurion Lounge Remix Ft. Edward R. Murrow and AIPAC
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) began its annual policy conference yesterday morning. Israel’s ambassador Michael Oren began the day with an address to the assembled...