A comparison from hell
“The problem from hell.” – Samantha Powers’ characterization of genocide in the 20th century. Israel-Nazi Comparison: Robin Shepherd, in 2009, wrote: “Attempts in Europe…
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Israel: Out of Many, One (Or, what is the purpose of Luxembourg?)
The ethnic, national, and racial diversity in the Ulpan (intensive Hebrew) class I attended shortly after becoming a citizen of Israel, is a legacy…
Why wasn’t this deleted?
The recent CiF piece by Robert Spencer (which never once mentions Jews or Judaism), elicits this completely off-topic, silly, and juvenile thinly-veiled attack on the…
Welcoming two new blogs to the neighborhood
For anyone not already familiar with the stellar work of the site, Just Journalism (JJ), you’ve been missing out on an important media watchdog…
Why was this deleted?
On the Howard Jacobson thread, there was this comment, which mocked Nick Cohen’s take-down of Jews who score cultural points by expressing their “shame”…
The hubris (and amnesia) of Charles Johnson
Almost two months ago I wrote a piece here about my personal reflections on how we started CiF Watch and how I got started…
Professor Geoffrey Alderman disinvited from panel convened to discuss “Conflict in the Middle East”
Earlier in the year, Matt Seaton, who, at the time, was the editor of “Comment Is Free” (now editor of CiF America), threatened to…
Why were these deleted?
Nick Cohen’s piece at CiF, “Howard Jacobson offers a contrary voice in the arts” – which argued that Jacobson’s satire “The Finkler Question”, which…
Explaining anti-Semitism (and Israel) to progressive Europeans
I was sitting in Cafe Aroma with my new French friends, a young couple I met while on a tour in Jerusalem, having a…
2010 or 1938?
Here’s the Guardian’s celebratory depiction of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s welcome in Lebanon recently. This is from another publication: Such photos, of tyrants who incite genocide against…