Between Dome of the Rock and a Hard Place
Last week I highlighted a recent essay in the New Yorker on Gaza. I had a number of problems with the details of the article, but despite those concerns I considered it one of the deeper analyses I had seen in a mainstream American media outlet. What attracted me to the article? First, the lead [...]
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Today’s Jerusalem Post carries the type of article that would never be published in a major US media outlet. The article examines Israeli social psychology around Operation Cast Lead and its aftermath. The article is so self-aware and penetrating, its worth an extensive quotation: The kill ratio was 100-to-1 in our favor. The destruction ratio [...]
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Many Israelis are frustrated with the US for its unconditional support of anything Israel does, including the ongoing ethnic cleansing of the West Bank and Jerusalem. Although we don’t hear many of these voices in the US, they are much more widely disseminated in Israel. I hope to bring some of these perspectives to an [...]
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When the US describes Israel’s policy of evicting Palestinians and demolishing their homes as “unhelpful” to the peace process [sic], they are using shockingly euphemistic language to characterize what is, in effect, ethnic cleansing. What does that process look like? How do settlers go about stealing Palestinian land under Israeli law? Part of the answer [...]
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As I wrote the post yesterday on the significance of the Daily Show’s interview with Baltzer and Barghouti, a part of me suspected that I would come to see my reaction partially as hype or misplaced optimism. After further thought, however, I find that the opposite is true: I think the show is even more [...]
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In the annals of American media coverage of Israel/Palestine, yesterday’s Daily Show with Jon Stewart was a watershed. On national TV, Jon Stewart interviewed Anna Baltzer and Mustafa Barghouti, advocates for equal Palestinian rights. They got on TV, they argued for equal Palestinian rights, they advocated for security and democracy for both peoples, they responded [...]
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