There’s a taste in my mouth, as desperation takes hold –Joy Division Trump’s self-image as the consummate deal-maker has its advantages and its disadvantages. His willingness to bargain with Putin to end the war in Ukraine, for instance, promises to break the current administration’s determination to keep the slaughter going–if an act of war partyContinue reading “An Offer We Don’t Get to Refuse”
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First the Romance, Now the Reality
Now it is only a question of how deep will be our disappointment. Enjoy the losers’ tears before they dry up, but know as monumental as the election was, it’s but a blip against the longer term trend line tracing the successful progress of their long war. Their histrionics are all the more remarkable inContinue reading “First the Romance, Now the Reality”
Lawsuit Establishes “He Who Smelt it, Dealt it” Precedent
Columbia University is paying a student 395,000 dollars to settle a lawsuit claiming he was unfairly suspended for spraying a group of pro-Gaza protesters with a noxious chemical. Columbia University has reached a $395,000 settlement with a student who was suspended in January after spraying student protesters with a foul-smelling substance at one of several campusContinue reading “Lawsuit Establishes “He Who Smelt it, Dealt it” Precedent”
Slipping the Right a Rufo
There is a stark divide on the American right separating supporters and opponents of Israel. The anti-Israel sentiment of the “far” right originates in opposition to Jewish power and influence, what we’re conditioned to call “anti-Semitism”. Here at least the charge “anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism” is apt. On the near side of respectability is the pro-IsraelContinue reading “Slipping the Right a Rufo”
Israel Slaughtering Children, Jews Hardest Hit
A British writer of comic fiction named Howard Jacobson complains in The Guardian that media outlets reporting on the record-setting rates of child casualties among Israel’s civilian victims in Gaza invokes the antisemitic “blood libel” of the medieval era: It says something for the conscience of the Church of England that, in 1955, it putContinue reading “Israel Slaughtering Children, Jews Hardest Hit”
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