The latest outrage: Muslim joins University of California board
The search for the latest outrage ended on Thursday when it emerged that a Muslim woman - Sadia Saifuddin - had been awarded a seat on the University of California's governing board. Sensible, humane...
View ArticleWill there be fallout from the NSA sharing intel with Israel?
It’s easy to make hyperbolic statements about the thorough infiltration of American policy-making by agents of Israel. It’s easy to claim things like: Capitol Hill is Israeli-occupied territory. Or,...
View ArticleUS, Iran and Spoilers
Thankfully, at last, the leaders of Iran and the United States have exchanged civil, apparently well-intentioned words with one another. Many of us are pleased to see the possibility of rapprochement...
View ArticleThe one-state debate: Consociationalism versus Centripetalism
The LA Times recently published an op-ed by Neve Gordon that calls on the J Street lobby organization to think differently about its stated goals. The two-state outcome isn’t viable so it’s time to...
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What comes next: The future bends toward equal rights
This post is part of “What Comes Next?: A forum on the end of the two-state paradigm.” This series was initiated by Jewish Voice for Peace as an investigation into the current state of thinking about...
View ArticleAmerica has changed in the face of Zionism’s frozen grimace
For a long time Zionists could count on the fact that the powerful men in London and Washington were just like them, at least when it came to popular views of non-whites. Winston Churchill, a man who’s...
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The Process
Kerry, Livni, Indyk et al, State Dep’t photo Now again, the Process. It’s hard not to be nauseated – in the most visceral sense – by its every representation and permutation. Its endless...
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Obama’s foreign policy has just one potential legacy– Iran
Obama with John Kerry and Susan Rice in the Oval Office, March 19, 2014 The three-year long civil war in Syria has highlighted the contraction of American influence in the Middle East and West Asia,...
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Apartheid label will stick
In a world characterized by the ubiquity of rapid mass communication the apparent degree of coordination among members of the American Zionist leadership shouldn’t be very impressive. Yet, it is...
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In life and death, some are more equal than others at the ‘NYT’
Jodi Rudoren Have you heard? Three Israeli teenagers have gone missing. Three settlers – one of whom may have been a soldier – have disappeared from an area patrolled by their army, the ultimate...
View ArticleA peek inside the Israeli subconscious as revealed at the King Hussein...
An American friend of mine recently traveled from Amman to Jenin. She was going to participate in the annual olive harvest that occurs across countries in the region at this time of year. In Palestine,...
View ArticlePalestine, an Islamic issue?
The recent news that a group of Muslim Americans – which is the way they’ve identified themselves – assaulted a Palestinian activist and writer in Jerusalem was particularly upsetting. Coming in the...
View ArticleLiberal Zionist arguments against one state are born of moral or political...
A recent post here in Mondoweiss printed Michael Manekin and Peter Beinart’s sunless one-state prognostications. They claim equal rights in Palestine can’t work. Their arguments are bad – and they make...
View ArticleIs there room for liberal Zionists in an anti-Zionist movement?
The Likud party’s unsurprising success in last month’s poll reinforced the essential argument (reality) that the two-state outcome is not viable. The question of whether that’s been the case for a week...
View ArticleOnce we were embattled, now we are insurgent
A year ago, many of us struggled to cope with the sure knowledge of an unfolding atrocity in Gaza. We watched as the men of the Israeli army – and the society that ejected them into that ghetto –...
View ArticleThe Jewish-Israeli navel-gazers
The latest outrage, a video recording of an Israeli army medic (!) casually executing a Palestinian man, has been seized upon by people who are sympathetic to Israel. They quickly began to write things...
View ArticleHow Palestinians can transform statelessness into strength
Trump’s Jerusalem decision hurts. But it takes time to know why. The Palestinians have spent an age coping with reality. The reality of wilting leaders, of capricious allies and an endlessly raw deal....
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