Liberty University has established a "Center for Judaic Studies". Oh joy. They say that the purpose behind the establishment was so that their Christian students could understand how important the modern state of Israel is to Biblical prophesy. I see. Look, I'm willing to argue that as a Jew I want ...

This picture, from a Swedish protest against the Israeli Davis Cup team at Malmo, Sweden (which went on to defeat the Swedish team), gets at one of the more pernicious elements in the way anti-Israel criticism operates. Israel came under significant criticism for its use of White Phosphorus in the G...

Matt Yglesias on the right's new star 14-year old Jonathan Krohn: What does it accomplish to put a 14 year-old front and center at CPAC? What’s the message it’s supposed to send? That the conservative message is childish? That the right’s talking points can be easily mastered by a 14 year-old?...

Steve Cohen, self-described "anti-Zionist Zionist" ("that should confuse the bastards") and author of the mid-1980s leftist tract That's Funny, You Don't Look Anti-Semitic, has passed away. I imagine Mr. Cohen and I would differ on many, many things. But his efforts in challenging anti-Semitism from...

Discussing the flare up over possible National Intelligence Council chair Chas Freeman, M.J. Rosenberg writes something that deserves some parsing: Now Jonathan Chait of the New Republic is an interesting case. He's liberal on every single issue but Israel (on which he is pure neocon), not only libe...

Iran: Wants to wipe Israel off the map. Hamas: Genocide of the Jews is in its charter. Sudan: Actually committing genocide, right now! Solidarity mission of Iran and Hamas to Sudan: Utterly unsurprising....

Folks might be interested to know that the notorious Westboro Baptist Church will be picketing various locations (including the law school) at the University of Chicago. The WBC is famous for hating gay people, but, in their defense, they hate pretty much everybody (including, naturally, Jews). If a...

Ishmael Khaldi, Israel's deputy counsel general for the Pacific northwest, takes to the San Francisco Chronicle to eviscerate UC-Berkeley's "Israel Apartheid Week". You are part of the problem, not part of the solution: If you are really idealistic and committed to a better world, stop with the fals...

Is it just me, or is Hugo Chavez reveling in acting the thug? enezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Wednesday he had ordered the nationalization of at least some of the operations of the U.S.-based food giant Cargill and threatened to do the same with the Caracas-based food maker Polar.Venezuela Pres...

February’s up, and that seems as good a time as any to bring this guesting stint to a close. I want to thank everyone very much for reading, listening, reacting and commenting. I hope you found what I said interesting, and for my part I know I’ve been pushed to think in new ways by all t...