Mystical Politics

According to the website of PACBI , the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, the goals of the BDS movement ...

Legal Insurrection , the blog maintained by Professor William Jacobson of Cornell University, just posted a story about how the controversy...

Egyptian temple (transported from area swamped by the waters of the Aswan Dam) in Madrid park. In Madrid - pool in front of statues of...

More on what is happening to the Palestinian refugees in the Yarmouk refugee camp, by Hussein Ibish: Murdering Palestinians by starvation...

I just posted my review of two books at the November, 2013, Society of Biblical Literature meeting:  Review of April DeConick, Holy Misogyny...

Illuminating article by Timothy Snyder in the NYRB on Ukraine:  Ukraine: The Haze of Propaganda by Timothy Snyder. From Moscow to London ...

One of the earliest political events that I was really aware of and read a lot about at the time was the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia i...

Harry's Place just published an absolutely horrendous photograph from a Huffington Post article about the horrors being visited upon ...

So much for the claim that the academic boycott of Israel is not aimed at individual scholars, but only at Israeli institutions. A web site ...

Last night, Professor William Jacobson spoke at Ithaca College against the boycott of Israeli academic institutions. This was the second of...

This time, the issue has nothing to do with Israel. South Carolina lawmakers voted Wednesday to withdraw about $70,000 in funding from tw...

In a wrong-headed article in the Harvard Crimson ( The Doctrine of Academic Freedom ), published a couple of days ago, Harvard student Sandr...

In  When Jews Undermine Israel , Andrew Apostolou writes: A recent New York Times article “A Conflict of Faith: Devoted to Jewish Observan...

Excellent article by Jonathan Tobin of Commentary on  Why Anti-Zionist Jews Are a Minority . One need not support every action of the gove...

The debate over calls for the academic boycott of Israel has arrived at Ithaca College. Eric Cheyfitz , one of the supporters of the boycott...

Michael Dunn was convicted  today in Florida of attempted murder for shooting at a car with four African-American teenagers in it. The jury...

My college sent out a message today urging everyone to get the flu vaccine, because there's been a serious increase in the number of fl...

Daily Kos: Most of you have no idea what Martin Luther King actually did The first paragraph: What most people who reference Dr. King se...

Death is ever present. Death is next door. Death is in the next room. As I walk down the street, stepping over the puddles, on a raw win...