American Uses and Misuses of the Holocaust
Wielding Holocaust memory to make America look good is an American tradition.
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The President Responds to Rashida Tlaib
Is it really Rep. Tlaib’s language that's a “disgrace”?
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The Dual Conspiracies of the J20 Prosecution
There’s the conspiracy with which protesters have been charged, and the conspiracy that brought the charges.
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The Jerusalem Embassy Ceremony Was Liberal Zionism’s Funeral
America and Israel's Monday celebration made it clear what supporting Israel looks like in practice.
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Dilemma in Delhi
Advice columnist Emma Scoldman answers letters from a traveler who doesn't want to harden his heart, and more.
Read More“The Russians Are Coming” and Other Poems
by Sparrow From our 2018 art calendar, dedicated to the theme of music THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING The Russians are coming; the Russians are coming. They stole our election, and they are drumming. The Russians are drumming; the Russians are drumming. The president hears them, and he is humming. The president’s humming; the president’s humming. […]
Read MoreThe Darker Truth of “Shithole-Gate”?
by Dick Flacks SOME PEOPLE are defining “Shithole-Gate” as a minor scandal involving a president’s use of an exceedingly vulgar epithet. That would, however, hardly count as a scandal; we assume that all his predecessors used profanity. Even the seemingly prudish Richard Nixon — we know from his tapes — was freely profane, particularly […]
Read MoreIn Israel/Palestine, Beware the Weaponization of History
by Ron Skolnik I WISH Israeli and Palestinian leaders, and the Israeli and Palestinian people they represent, would live more in the present, and less in the past. I wish they focused more on problem-solving for the human beings inhaling and exhaling today, and less on proving to the world the righteousness or aboriginality […]
Read MoreQuick Takes: On Jerusalem, Trump Plays to His Base . . .
WHILE THREATENING PEACE AND UNDERMINING ZIONISM by Ralph Seliger THE PRESIDENT’S DECISION to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem is a typical Trump move, pleasing his strongest supporters while doing nothing concretely positive. He’s winning kudos from Evangelical Christians and hard-right Zionists, including, most importantly, Sheldon Adelson, who backed his presidential campaign to the tune […]
Read MoreTrump’s Speech: Lights Out for the Two-State Solution?
by Ron Skolnik THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION, on life support for years now, might just have been put to death by one Donald J. Trump. The situation is critical and what a host of international actors do in the upcoming weeks could determine its continued viability. Trump’s weapon of attempted execution was the speech on […]
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