Monday, January 01, 1990

ISRAEL, JEWS, ANTI-ZIONISM, & ANTI-SEMITISM

Thursday, April 30, 1998 1948/1998 - Reflections on a half-century of Israel (April-May 1998)

Wednesday, September 26, 2001 Some overdue advice from Edward Said

Friday, April 19, 2002 There was no massacre in Jenin (Ha'aretz)
Monday, May 13, 2002 "Jeningrad" - Tom Gross on the mythical "massacre" in Jenin
Thursday, September 12, 2002 Jenin - "Massacring the truth" (Amnon Rubenstein)

Monday, June 17, 2002 Anti-semitism is back (Todd Gitlin)
Friday, June 21, 2002 Ilan Stavans on Jacobo Timerman (Forward)

Wednesday, September 25, 2002 "Baseless Comparisons": UN Security Council Resolutions on Iraq and Israel

Thursday, May 15, 2003 Who Shot Mohammed Al-Dura? (James Fallows)

Monday, July 28, 2003 The Gospel according to Mel Gibson (Paula Fredriksen)

Saturday, September 20, 2003 Some thoughts on anti-Zionism & anti-semitism

Monday, October 13, 2003 Mahathir Mohamad - "Jews rule the world by proxy"
Sunday, October 26, 2003 Richard Just on Mahathir & "root causes"

Thursday, November 13, 2003 Juan Cole's Israel obsessions

Saturday, May 1, 2004 The Middle Eastern Jews & the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Saturday, June 19, 2004 The Danger of Americanism (Das Schwarze Korps, 1944)

Monday, October 4, 2004 Himmler's Poznan speech - October 4, 1943

Wednesday, December 29, 2004 Michael Young - Middle East Studies in the U.S. (Reason)

Friday, April 29, 2005 Another anti-Israel boycott (Normblog)

Friday, May 13, 2005 This is a blacklist, not just a "boycott"
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 A boycott will only strengthen the Israeli right (David Newman & Benjamin Pogrund)

Friday, July 15, 2005 Theodorakis's Jewish problem (2004)

Monday, July 18, 2005 "Moderate" Muslim leaders condemn terrorism against Londoners, but not against Israelis or Iraqis (BBC News)
Friday, August 19, 2005 Condemnations of terrorism -- real and bogus

Sunday, August 21, 2005 Albert Memmi - Who is an Arab Jew? (JIMENA)

Thursday, October 6, 2005 Chamoun in 1948 - "Zionist Danger to Lebanon"
Saturday, October 8, 2005 Nick Cohen on the increasing respectability of anti-semitism (New Statesman)

Saturday, November 5, 2005 Sharon Dismantles Zionist Entity - World's Problems End

Sunday, November 13, 2005 "Massacre in Amman" - Chickens coming home to roost (Khalaf)

Friday, January 6, 2006 Spielberg, Kushner, & "Munich"
Sunday, January 8, 2006 Some Arab reaction to Sharon
Tuesday, January 24, 2006 David Hirsh & Jon Pike - Resist the politics of demonization
Thursday, January 26, 2006 Sam Fleischacker - Jewish/Muslim Studies Initiative
Friday, January 27, 2006 Uri Avnery - "Pity the Orphan"
Friday, January 27, 2006 Jewish Organizations Plan a Big Push Against Genocide in Darfur (Forward)

Friday, February 3, 2006 Hamas - Drawing the Line
Monday, February 6, 2006 Hamas Victory - the Artificial Sweep (Stuart Elliott)
Tuesday, February 7, 2006 The cartoon wars
Tuesday, February 7, 2006 Further commentaries on the cartoon wars
Wednesday, February 8, 2006 Olivier Roy on the cartoon wars
Sunday, February 12, 2006 Let's be honest about cartoons (LA Times)
Tuesday, February 28, 2006 Iranian expert unmasks "Tom and Jerry" as a Jewish plot

Wednesday, March 8, 2006 The murder of Ilan Halimi: Why anti-semitism is a problem
Thursday, March 9, 2006 Where did we come from?
Sunday, March 12, 2006 Israel's Tragedy Foretold (Gershom Gorenberg)
Sunday, March 12, 2006 The World According to the "Palestine Solidarity Movement" (Global Intifada)
Sunday, March 26, 2006 Mearsheimer & Walt on the Zionist Conspiracy ... with a response by Herf & Markovits
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 Why Mearsheimer & Walt are wrong (continued)
Thursday, March 30, 2006 Chomsky and Massad on Mearsheimer & Walt

Thursday, April 6, 2006 Some Rebuttals to Mearsheimer & Walt's "Israel Lobby"
Friday, April 7, 2006 Stephen Zunes on Mearsheimer & Walt
Thursday, April 13, 2006 Happy Passover - "They Tried to Kill Us, We Survived, Now Let's Eat"
Sunday, April 16, 2006 Anti-Zionism, discrimination, and moral cowardice in soccer
Tuesday, April 18, 2006 Football Killing Fields (Tom Gross)
Tuesday, April 18, 2006 Juan Cole on Mearsheimer & Walt
Tuesday, April 18, 2006 Michael Walzer - Rich Settlers, Poor Israelis (& Political Lunacy): Stopping the Cycle
Wednesday, April 19, 2006 Tony Judt on Mearsheimer & Walt
Friday, April 21, 2006 Jere Riemer on Judt's defense of M&W ... with some further thoughts of my own
Thursday, April 27, 2006 Finkelstein’s Follies: The Dangers of Vulgar Anti-Zionism (Tobias Abse)
Thursday, April 27, 2006 Juan Cole's misplaced defense of Mearsheimer & Walt
Friday, April 28, 2006 Mearsheimer & Walt - "And Now For Some Facts" (Benny Morris)
Friday, May 5, 2006 Mearsheimer & Walt respond to critics (LRB)
Saturday, May 20, 2006 Michael Massing's curious apologetics for Mearsheimer & Walt (NYR)

Monday, May 1, 2006 Lunacy about Darfur (in Monthly Review)
Wednesday, May 3, 2006 Juan Cole's Iran distortions (Christopher Hitchens)
Wednesday, May 3, 2006 Michael Young on Hitchens vs. Cole
Friday, May 5, 2006 P.S. re Cole, Hitchens, & Ahmadinejad
Tuesday, May 9, 2006 Academic blacklist season again?
Tuesday, May 9, 2006 Darfur: Why Are We Muslims So Silent? (Tarek Fatah)
Thursday, May 11, 2006 Academic Freedom Alert - Oppose the Blacklisting of Israeli Academics
Friday, May 12, 2006 Please write a letter to oppose possible NATFHE blacklist (StandWithUs)
Monday, May 15, 2006 David Hirsh on the NATFHE blacklist proposal
Tuesday, May 16, 2006 Juan Cole condemns the proposed blacklist of Israeli academics

Tuesday, June 6, 2006 NATFHE, anti-Zionism, creationism - How long should we keep arguing with bigots? (Shalom Lappin)
Saturday, June 10, 2006 Who mourns Zarqawi? (DPA & Juan Cole)
Tuesday, June 13, 2006 Boycotts, blacklists, and anti-Zionist obsessions - Two thought experiments
Thursday, June 15, 2006 Götz Aly on the Holocaust and the uses of comparative analysis (via Norman Geras)
Wednesday, June 21, 2006 Academic freedom alert - Petition supporting Thomas Klocek (SPME)
Friday, June 23, 2006 Presbyterians condemn terrorism & suicide bombing
Friday, June 23, 2006 The Red Cross recognizes Israel (Norman Geras & Ami Isseroff)
Saturday, June 24, 2006 Further thoughts on the Presbyterian anti-terrorism resolution (Ami Isseroff)
Sunday, June 25, 2006 Saving Darfur - Another Zionist plot, of course (ZNN)
Monday, June 26, 2006 More mysteries from the Pew Global Attitudes Survey
Tuesday, June 27, 2006 "Can the Anti-Boycotters Please Stand Up?" - A response
Wednesday, June 28, 2006 The real story in Gaza (Ami Isseroff)

Tuesday, July 4, 2006 Rape as a "weapon of mass destruction" - Real atrocities & anti-Zionist propaganda (Engage)
Thursday, July 6, 2006 Ku Klux Klan & neo-Nazis rally against Iraq war
Sunday, July 9, 2006 The Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a nutshell (Doni Remba)
Tuesday, July 11, 2006 "Dear Palestinian Arab brethren": Face reality (Youssef Ibrahim)
Friday, July 14, 2006 Lebanon - "Israel's Invasion, Syria's War" (Michael Young)
Friday, July 14, 2006 How Israelis see the crisis (Shmuel Rosner)
Saturday, July 15, 2006 Chibli Mallat on the Lebanese/Israeli crisis (Lebanon Daily Star)
Sunday, July 16, 2006 Chibli Mallat vs. Rami Khouri on the Lebanese/Israeli crisis (Daily Star)
Sunday, July 16, 2006 Hezbollah Katyushas are aimed at Beirut and USA - via Israel (Ami Isseroff)
Sunday, July 16, 2006 Some perspectives on the Middle East crisis (Norman Geras)
Sunday, July 16, 2006 The Lebanese-Israeli crisis in Al-Jazeera
Monday, July 17, 2006 The G-8 statement on the Middle East crisis
Tuesday, July 18, 2006 Durkheim in Israel - war & moral integration
Tuesday, July 18, 2006 Perspectives on the Middle East crisis #3 (Norman Geras)
Wednesday, July 19, 2006 Lebanon/Israel - "Disproportionality" in Perspective (Stuart Elliott)
Thursday, July 20, 2006 Chibli Mallat - "A Lebanese initiative" (Bitterlemons-International)
Thursday, July 20, 2006 A historic optical illusion - Israel & the invisible Middle Eastern Jews
Friday, July 21, 2006 Perspectives on the Middle East crisis #4 (Norman Geras)
Friday, July 21, 2006 "Paradise Lost" - Robert Fisk's elegy for Beirut (Independent)
Friday, July 21, 2006 Lebanon/Israel - "Proportionality," war crimes, and international law (Doni Remba)
Saturday, July 22, 2006 Guardian or Der Sturmer? (Harry's Place)
Saturday, July 22, 2006 Israeli peace activist says the Lebanon campaign is justified (Boston Globe)
Saturday, July 22, 2006 What Hezbollah is fighting for - A reality check
Sunday, July 23, 2006 Perspectives on the Middle East crisis #5 (Norman Geras)
Tuesday, July 25, 2006 Jan Egeland condemns Hezbollah's war crimes
Wednesday, July 26, 2006 ... No, It's Survival (Richard Cohen)
Thursday, July 27, 2006 Nasrallah clarifies Hezbollah's perspective on the Jews
Friday, July 28, 2006 Hezbollah missiles and the IDF
Friday, July 28, 2006 Where is the Lebanese/Israeli crisis heading? - Some tentative analyses & speculations
Saturday, July 29, 2006 The dilemmas of war between Israel and Hezbollah (Shimon Zachary Klein)
Sunday, July 30, 2006 What Ahmadinejad meant
Sunday, July 30, 2006 How much damage in Beirut? (Stuart Elliott)
Sunday, July 30, 2006 American Jew-hater shoots Jews in Seattle (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Monday, July 31, 2006 Has Hezbollah overreached? (Michael Young)
Monday, July 31, 2006 Fighting Hezbollah in the worst way possible (Ami Isseroff)
Monday, July 31, 2006 Diplomacy in action (Not a parody)
Monday, July 31, 2006 Former peacekeeper Lewis McKenzie on the Israeli/Lebanese crisis (CBC)
Monday, July 31, 2006 Why bomb UN observers? (Stuart Elliott)

Tuesday, August 1, 2006 The small difference
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 Peacekeepers are not peacemakers (Nancy Soderberg) And temporary cease-fires that resolve none of the underlying problems are not the same as peace.
Thursday, August 3, 2006 Ahmadinejad - Israel's destruction is the solution (AP)
Thursday, August 3, 2006 Israel/Hezbollah - The Syrian connection (Robert Pape & G.W. Bush)
Thursday, August 3, 2006 Two shameless academic whitewashes of Hezbollah
Friday, August 4, 2006 Lebanon/Israel - Did the war make sense? (Yossi Melman & Ze'ev Sternhell)
Friday, August 4, 2006 "Systemic Failure"? - Ari Shavit on the Lebanese war (Ha'aretz)
Saturday, August 5, 2006 Numbers in Lebanon
Saturday, August 5, 2006 Joschka Fischer on the meaning & possibilities of the Israeli/Lebanese crisis
Sunday, August 6, 2006 US/Israel strategy in the Israeli/Lebanese crisis
Monday, August 7, 2006 Middle East math (via Stuart Elliott)
Monday, August 7, 2006 Hezbollah, Israel, & war crimes - Some lies & smears by Adam Shatz
Tuesday, August 8, 2006 Trad Hamadah: 'Hezbollah's weapons not sacrosanct' (Figaro)
Wednesday, August 9, 2006 Cease-fire in Lebanon - "For It Before They Were Against It" (Jonathan Zasloff)
Wednesday, August 9, 2006 Reasoned discourse in Britain - "We Are All Hizbullah"
Wednesday, August 9, 2006 UN "Human Rights" Council - Business as usual
Friday, August 11, 2006 "Why a Hizballah defeat is [even] more important for the US than Israel" (Henri Barkey)
Friday, August 18, 2006 "The outrage of so many outraged people outrages me" - André Glucksmann
Friday, August 18, 2006 "Why is Lebanon more important than Darfur?" (Hasdai Westbrook)
Thursday, August 24, 2006 Lebanese Prime Minister - Hezbollah can't do it again & We should make peace with Israel
Saturday, August 26, 2006 Truth in labeling from the "peace" movement?
Saturday, August 26, 2006 Offending the right people (for the right reasons) - I agree with Noam Chomsky
Wednesday, August 30, 2006 My BBC Persian Service interview on Mearsheimer & Walt's "Israel Lobby" manifesto
Thursday, August 31, 2006 Lebanese ambivalence - A week with Fuad Siniora

Tuesday, September 5, 2006 What Ahmadinejad means (once again)
Tuesday, September 5, 2006 Britain - "Attacks on Jews soar since Lebanon" (London Times)
Saturday, September 9, 2006 More signs of the times in Europe (via Normblog)
Sunday, September 10, 2006 Fred Halliday - "The Left and Jihad" (openDemocracy)
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 Update on the "freedom of expression and tolerance" front
Wednesday, September 13, 2006 Antisemitism is Back - Denis MacShane, MP

Friday, November 10, 2006 Ellen Willis, democratic socialist and anti-anti-Zionist, 1941-2006

Saturday, December 9, 2006 Irwin Cotler defends Salah Choudhury (Statement to the Canadian Parliament)
Saturday, December 9, 2006 Irwin Cotler Joins Shoaib Choudhury's Defence (Terry Glavin)
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 Al Jazeera's Editor-in-Chief on the root causes of the Middle East's problems
Thursday, December 14, 2006 Holocaust Denial Is No Joke (Anne Applebaum)
Saturday, December 16, 2006 "Why are so many people unhinged these days?"
Wednesday, December 27, 2006 Irwin Cotler: "Courageous Bangladeshi journalist" Salah Choudhury deserves our support (Montreal Gazette)

Wednesday, January 3, 2007 Breaking news from Iran - "Hitler was Jewish"
Wednesday, January 3, 2007 George Washington's Letter to the Jews of Newport, Rhode Island (1790)
Wednesday, January 3, 2007 "True heroics" in the cause of freedom (Montreal Suburban)
Saturday, January 6, 2007 PBS documentary, Monday 1/8 - Resurgence of Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century
Monday, January 8, 2007 Building bridges in the Middle East (contd.)
Monday, January 15, 2007 Kirchner boycotts Ahmadinejad (Harry's Place)
Monday, January 22, 2007 Iranians against the lie (via Normblog)
Monday, January 22, 2007 "The second holocaust will not be like the first" (Benny Morris)
Thursday, January 25, 2007 David Hirsh on the increasing respectability of anti-semitism & anti-Zionism

Friday, February 9, 2007 Continuing normalization of anti-semitic imagery - A cartoon roundup from Iran
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Andy Markovits - "Western Europe's America Problem"
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 "Blame America . . . and oh yeah, the Jews" - Review of Markovits on European anti-Americanism (Jeffrey Kopstein)
Wednesday, February 21, 2007 "Bashing Goliath" - Another good review of Markovits on European anti-Americanism (American Prospect)

Sunday, March 4, 2007 Please sign this petition in support of Salah Choudhury

Monday, June 25, 2007 UN "Human Rights" update - The more things change ...
Monday, June 25, 2007 UN "Human Rights Travesty" (Irwin Cotler)

Monday, July 9, 2007 A call to oppose academic blacklists & express solidarity with Israeli academics

Friday, August 10, 2007 The ASA Council Should Condemn Academic Blacklists and Boycotts - An open letter from Chad Goldberg

Monday, October 29, 2007 Walter Russell Mead on Mearsheimer & Walt, academic freedom, and the Zionist specter