November 23, 2014 How Not to Protect the Constitution When a president usurps power and subverts the Constitution, the U.S. Constitution provides a remedy: impeachment and removal from office. Hyperbolic language calling a president a “tyrant” or “despot” by politicians who lack the courage to impeach because it’s politically inconvenient is demagogic and dangerous. Outside of our constitutional system, in the whirlpool of political […] Blog
November 18, 2014 Turning the Other Cheek to Appease Radical Islam . . . and getting your head cut off. Read an adulatory account of the self-martyrdom at the hands of the Islamic State of Peter “Abdul-Rahman” Kassig: http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2014/10/12/becoming-abdul-rahman-peter-kassigs-family-inspired-journey-syria/17054647/ Blog
November 18, 2014 Palestinian Terrorists Leave Their Mark on Intellectual History There are critics who claim that Arabs have never contributed anything much to intellectual progress, arguing that–despite a few astronomers and mathematicians–the achievements of the so-called “Islamic Renaissance” of the Middle Ages was generally the handiwork of a handful of Jews and Coptic and Nestorian Christians who often published using Arabic names. Yesterday with an […] Blog
November 16, 2014 The Return of the Malevolent Jew: The Academic Nazification of Israel “What if the Jews themselves were Nazis?,” mused French philosopher, Vladimir Jankélévitch in 1986. “That would be great. We would no longer have to feel sorry for them; they would have deserved what they got.” The recasting of Israelis, and, by extension, Jews as Nazis has, in fact, taken place, just as Jankélévitch envisioned. This […] Blog Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism
November 16, 2014 DC’s Pious Dean A Willing Dupe Breitbart News asked Dean of the National Cathedral, Gary Hall, whether it was appropriate to host Muslim prayers on the 100th anniversary of the last Caliph’s call for Jihad against nonbelievers, which resulted in the slaughter of innocent Christians. Hall responded, “I did not know that it was that anniversary. But knowing it now, it […] Blog
November 13, 2014 Hillary “Hadassah” Clinton That’s the contemptible Andrew Sullivan’s characterization of the implications of a Hillary presidency for U.S.-Israeli relations. See Aaron David Miller, “Would Hillary Be Good for the Holy Land,” “Foreign Policy,” at http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/11/10/would_hillary_be_good_for_the_holy_land_obama_israel_bibi Blog
November 13, 2014 Obama’s “Special Relationship” with Israel in Action From Breitbart.com: “Even as he defiantly moves to unilaterally grant legal status to millions of people inside the U.S. illegally, President Obama’s State Department is making sure that such special favors are not meant for everyone. “The State Department’s unexplained refusal to extend a valid P1 visa currently held by an Israeli basketball player has […] Blog
November 12, 2014 Max Blumenthal Brings the BDS War to Berlin In my recent post on The Nation’s censorship of Eric Alterman – who had dared to mention the LDB Research Paper that documents Max Blumenthal’s anti-Semitism – I noted that the decision to delete Alterman’s reference might be connected to the criticism Max Blumenthal and his fellow anti-Israel activist David Sheen were encountering from some […] Blog Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism
November 10, 2014 Max Blumenthal And The Nation’s Standards Over the weekend, I was alerted to a tweet posted by Max Blumenthal, who announced that “.@thenation decided @eric_alterman’s promotion of far-rightist painting me as anti-Semite ‘did not meet…standards’.” The tweet was accompanied by a screenshot showing an “Editor’s Note” that can be found under one of Eric Alterman’s recent posts at his regular Nation […] Blog Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism
November 7, 2014 The Hamas Book Club Writing shortly after the publication of Max Blumenthal’s anti-Israel screed “Goliath” a year ago, Eric Alterman noted that it would be “no exaggeration to say that this book could have been published by the Hamas Book-of-the-Month Club (if it existed).” As demonstrated at yesterday’s rather lavish “Palestine Book Awards ceremony 2014” in London – honoring, […] Blog Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism