After a great deal of back and forth (and efforts by others on my behalf), the Daily Californian has finally published a response by me to a non-factual, defamatory letter to the editor attacking me in late May. While I am pleased that the newspaper finally printed something, I feel…
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Some people have sent me letters they had sent to the Daily Cal in response to published letters to the editor that contained false information on Israel-Palestine and that attacked If Americans Knew and me personally. (See more details here.) A few were written before the Daily Cal refused to…
In late May the Daily Californian, the UC Berkeley campus newspaper, published letters to the editor defaming If Americans Knew and me personally. As soon as I became aware of these letters, online, I phoned the person responsible for the letters section, Jonathan Kuperberg, to ask if they had also…
I just sent the following message to the president of the White House Correspondents Association about their decision to refuse to allow Helen Thomas to purchase a table at their upcoming dinner. I hope others will contact them about this, also. (202-266-7453 phone; 202-266-7454 fax) Dear Caren Bohan, I hope…
Ali Abunimah & Gilad Atzmon at the OK Corral (reposted from DeLiberation) by Roger Tucker Saturday, March 24th, 2012 The recent open letter Granting No Quarter: A Call for the Disavowal of the Racism and Antisemitism of Gilad Atzmon, apparently written by Ali Abunimah, has come as a…
While people are suffering in Israeli prisons and being killed in Gaza, it is sad to see time and energy expended in a campaign against Israeli author and saxophonist Gilad Atzmon. I respect and like people on both sides of this controversy and am troubled over this distracting and destructive…
H.R.347, the `Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011′ has just been passed. This makes it a federal offense, with imprisonment of at least up to one year, for any “unauthorized” person to enter or remain in a building — or the grounds — where the Secret Service…
I’m at a stopover on my way to Houston, where I’m speaking at the Baker Institute tomorrow night at 7pm (see below for details). I’ve just noticed that there is a long article about this event at the Jewish Herald-Voice, “Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast’s Jewish Community Newspaper Since…
I just saw this action alert. I hope a huge number of people will phone and take action. It would be nice if we could save at least one life. Khader has a wife and two small daughters. Another baby is on the way. I hope they can grow up…
Israel National News reports that a young Jewish teenager fell in love with an Arab, converted to Islam, and decided to marry him, running away from home to do so. The parents, horrified, called the police, and after weeks of searching, located her. While many parents would quite likely be…