Andrew Sullivan scolds the organizers of a gay pride parade in Madrid for withdrawing their invitation to an Israeli float: Barring an Israeli float in Madrid's gay pride parade seems perverse, exclusive and pernicious. They think they could have a pride parade in...
Flotilla passengers aid an injured Israeli commando. Via Ali Abunimah, the Turkish paper Hurriyet has posted a gallery of photos recovered from the passengers of the Mavi Marmara, the now-famous ship involved in last week’s flotilla incident. Another photo from the...
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Gee, I can’t understand why the Washington Post missed all the key details that Max Blumenthal rounded up from Israeli published sources (in Hebrew and English). The Flotilla Raid Was Not “Bungled.†The IDF Detailed Its Violent Strategy In Advance. The Israeli...
The art world has been abuzz the last couple of months over the performance of "The Artist Is Present," by Serbian artist Marina Abramović at New York's MOMA. In the piece, she sits in a chair, nearly motionless, for eight hours a day -- no food, no water, not even a...
Our quote of the day comes from wounded idealist Benjamin Netanyahu: That was not a love boat. That was a boat of hatred. It was not a peaceful flotilla. The soldiers who boarded the ships were attacked by clubs, batons and knives. And if you can bear to look, here's...
In his zeal to defend Israel, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies’ (FDD) Cliff May cites a colleague’s contentions that the activists taking part in the “Freedom Flotilla†were obviously Islamic radicals bent on massacring Jews. From his weekly...
Michael Rubin has posted yet another rant on National Review’s "The Corner." This time he goes after the petty Europeans and “chattering class†for their quaint beliefs in proportionality. As Daniel Luban and Jim Lobe have pointed out, Michael Rubin has been...
On his Twitter feed, Glenn Greenwald commends Rep. Barney Frank for these recent comments: In an interview with the Boston Herald, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said that that "'as a Jew,' Israeli treatment of Arabs around some of the West Bank settlements 'makes me...
I've heard a certain criticism countless times over the years, but after seeing it three times in two days on the same site, I decided to do a little research. From that vast repository of respectable opinion, The Atlantic, here are Jeffrey Goldberg, Andrew Sullivan,...
