Mystical Politics

The Israeli artist Shoshke (Zeeve) Engelmayer posted this response to today’s attack from Iran. The Israeli attack upon Lebanon has been nam...

When I was in Israel in the spring of 2012, on sabbatical, there was lots of war talk between Israel and Iran, but nothing happened. I even...

The Reverend Stephen Sizer is in the news again, and not for a good reason. He's one of the people who attended the latest Iranian confe...

The invaluable website Sign and Sight, which is unfortunately closing down, has a very good survey of the various responses to Grass's ...

I'm now finally reading Günter Grass's wretched poem itself, in English translation , kindly provided by the Atlantic. This is what ...

I'm no fan of Günter Grass, after his recent poem about Iran and Israel and nuclear weapons, but I think this is ridiculous -   Israel I...

Hussein Ibish just tweeted: Hussein Ibish ‏ @ Ibishblog Well, we are well into Saturday afternoon and no o...

Around 1,000 march in TA anti-war with Iran rally Protesters express opposition to strike on Iran, voicing anti-Netanyahu slogans and rai...

Tonight in Tel Aviv there is the first demonstration in Israel against an attack on Iran. I had hoped to go but wasn't able to find a ri...

If you don't live in Israel (or Iran, I guess), then you don't know how bad it has gotten. Israeli politicians are broadcasting the ...

More Israel news. We're not just sitting around and waiting for Bibi to decide to bomb the Iranians. We're also waiting around t...

Another scary article , this time from NBC news, on the likelihood that Israel will attack Iran this year - it even goes into the details of...

I tried to blog on this yesterday, but Blogger ate my post. The Forward today has an editorial, The Days After, on the question of what wil...

Some random thoughts, in no particular order - The scandal at Penn State is really unbelievable. When I read the story yesterday about ho...

Rep. Peter King of New York, who is hosting the bogus series of hearings this week on radicalization of American Muslims, has an awkward pas...