31
May
Two days ago the Circuit City store clerk who tipped off police to the activities of the Fort Dix terror plotters gave his first interview. Brian Morgenstern, a 26-year-old employee at the store, told CNN that two “normal people” came into the store and asked for a camcorder cassette tape to be transferred to [...]
30
May
The U.S. ambassador in Israel (I wish I could have said, in Jerusalem) fell into a trap last week—one that he could easily have avoided with a modicum of foresight. It was not the type of ambush laid with roadside devices and a hail of bullets, but it did carry explosive implications, and produced a [...]
25
May
Cross-border exchanges between Israel and Hamas this past week served as the latest occasion for the New York Times to cover, and cover some more, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
True to form, Friday May 25th’s front-page featured prominently, for the second time in a week, a color photo of an Israeli strike against a Hamas compound in [...]
18
May
When I was asking a group of underaffiliated Jewish academics what being Jewish meant to them, their responses were varied. What dominated, however, was that “terrible things happen to Jews.” Similarly, at an AJC conference in Los Angeles with network television executives, most commented that the Jewish experience signaled an endless tale of oppression.
The more [...]
14
May
AJC Executive Director David Harris blogs for the Jerusalem Post. From his latest entry:
On May 11, Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora had an op-ed in the New York Times.
It reminded me of a Cold War-era joke.
An American and a Soviet debated which country was more open. The American boasted that, without fear of arrest, he [...]
7
May
Listen: [audio:101meeting/allam050407.mp3]
Magdi Allam, editor at Corriere Della Sera and commentator on Arab and Islamic affairs, was presented with the Mass Media Award on May 4, 2007 at AJC’s 101st Annual Meeting. Here he gives his acceptance speech.
1
May
Back in 2003, when I was still living in London and working as a journalist, I came across a newspaper advertisement slamming Israel which had been signed by a number of British trade unionists. Among them was Jeremy Dear, the Secretary-General of the union I belonged to, the National Union of Journalists (NUJ).
Like many other [...]