Posts Tagged: Peter Beinart
Esquire Columnist: America’s ‘Obsession’ with Israel ‘Has Gone on Long Enough’
Is America obsessed with Israel? Stephen Marche, a columnist for Esquire, thinks so, and "The obsession has gone on long enough," he writes in the magazine's...
German Paper’s Cartoon Depicting Israel as Wild Monster Draws Ire
JNS.org -Israeli Ambassador to Germany Yakov Hadas-Handelsmanand Jewish activists have criticized a major Munich newspaper, Süddeutsche Zeitung, for publishing a cartoon demonizing Israel. The cartoon depicted...
Dumb and Dumber About Antisemitism in Germany
Really, what could be antisemitic about picturing Israel as an ugly greedy monster with horns? Why on earth would anybody take offense to see Israel...
Did I Make Cory Booker ‘Too Jewish’?
Recently, Jeffrey Goldberg, a journalist I know and respect, repeated, in the New York Post, Peter Beinart's attack against me from a few weeks ago, that in...
Peter Beinart’s Attack on Me and Cory Booker
Last week Peter Beinart wrote a column on The Daily Beast called "Cory Booker's Rabbis" which surmised that my 20 year friendship with the...
Support for Israel and American Identity
The news has no regard for ratings. No matter how grand, shocking or strange life may be, the rhythm of events is staccato and...
American Jews and Israel Have Never Been Closer
Despite occasional media warnings of a "distancing" between American Jews and Israel, there is nothing like actually visiting the Jewish state to feel...
Time to Challenge the ‘Palestine-Firsters’
Between June and October of this year, Palestinian terrorists in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip launched almost 260 attacks, the vast majority involving rockets and missiles,...
The Failure of the American Jewish Left
In early September 2012, many in the pro-Israel camp were disturbed by a series of events at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. First, the...
Undermining the Jews of the Arab World
If you're looking for an online aggregator of Israel-bashing articles, you could do a great deal worse than visit Open Zion, the website edited by...
Pondering the Limits of Conversation
The Jewish Agency's third Global Jewish Forum is just a stone's throw away on the calendar. I use that expression intentionally. Occurring three times each...
What’s Left of the Jewish Left?
Adam Kirsch reports in Tablet on the recent YIVO conference "Jews and the Left," held at the Center for Jewish History in New York. Among the presenters...
Zionists Do Not Boycott Israel
Despite being a weekly columnist, I feel compelled to respond to the Jerusalem Post editorial titled "Zionist Unity" (22/5/12). The editorial makes the outrageous claim ...
Breakfast with Beinart
During a recent visit to New York, I had an extended breakfast meeting with controversial author Peter Beinart, who in recent months has received enormous...
