Mystical Politics

I'm currently sitting in my family's vacation home in Westport, Mass., and my niece is trying to persuade my father ("Grandpa...

This afternoon there was another terrorist attack in Jerusalem, also committed by a driver who took his tractor and attacked a bus, cars, an...

Some unequivocally good news (via Drink Soaked Trots) - Serbia captures fugitive Karadzic . He has been indicted by the International Crimin...

Benny Morris has an utterly terrifying article in yesterday's New York Times arguing that Israel should bomb Iran's nuclear sites s...

It's just been announced - the bodies have been positively identified as those of Regev and Goldwasser, and the army has sent officers ...

Two years and four days after it broke out, as Yaron Dekel of Israel Radio just said, "The Second Lebanon War has just ended." Hiz...

Haaretz reports on how the exchange will be conducted tomorrow to return Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser to Israel, in exchange for five Le...

On a cheerier note, today I visited a new pedestrian mall in Jerusalem that has positively beautiful architecture. It's an outside mall ...

I thought it would be interesting to highlight two recent examples of anti-semitism, one from the left and one from the right. The first exa...

I've been following the discussions on the Engage list and on Normblog about the responses to the UCU motion 25, which in effect is ca...

I went to a panel discussion tonight on the question of whether there were women among the Qumran sect. It was very interesting, with quite ...

I woke up about an hour ago (5:30 a.m. my time) because the light woke me up. I got up and opened the door - and felt the nice cool, damp ai...

There was a terrorist attack earlier today in Jerusalem - a Palestinian from east Jerusalem drove a bulldozer (which he drove as a part of h...

Balloon arch. I went to the gay pride march in Jerusalem on Thursday night (see here for posts on past Jerusalem gay pride marches, includi...

I just arrived in Israel on Wednesday for a month's stay, most of which will be spent in the National Library working on two chapters of...

Obama Claims Nomination; First Black to Lead a Major Party Ticket . Yes we can!

I think it is a good thing that Obama quit his church . Much as I like him, I do find it difficult to understand why he remained a member of...

This is from the Stop the Boycott website: Motion 25: Palestine and the occupation: University of Brighton - Eastbourne, University of Brigh...

I think that the most disheartening detail in Eve Garrard's description of the University and College Union's Congress passing the ...

An article in the Huffington Post - McCain Backer Hagee Said Hitler Was Fulfilling God's Will - seems to have made enough waves about p...