[this piece was originally published on +972 magazine] I have attended all three J Street conferences since the organization formed in 2008 with the dual objectives of pushing the US government to take an active […]
Category: Reflections & Analyses
A Moment of Left-Wing Frustration
I am very tired of the discourse in the media which goes as follows: X article/book/statement/rodent received heavy criticism both from the Left and from the Right, thereby, readers should realize that X falls nicely in […]
Beinart’s Call for Settlement Boycott: Important but Imperfect (Creeping Apartheid + E. J’lem)
Today, Peter Beinart published a carefully worded- and thus more-hearable by mainstream Jews- Op-Ed in the New York Times. In it, he writes that American Jews should begin to “call the West Bank “nondemocratic Israel.”” In other, less-NYT-publishable/US-Jewry-acceptable words, the Apartheid Part […]
Detangling the Holocaust from Israeli-Palestinian Politics
[This piece was originally published on Common Ground News Service] Jerusalem – Late last month I went to the children’s memorial in Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem. I stood there and took in […]
Tu B’Shvat 2012: On Renewal, Trees, Palestine, the Army, Injustice and Hope
I haven’t felt an urge– a need, even– to write like the one I am feeling now for a long time. My fingers are a bit stiff from the February Jerusalem air and from the […]
The Leftern Wall 