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Stephen Hawking’s Boycott: But: Does the Occupation have any Red Lines at all?–after which: Sanctions?

James Adler — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:52:26 +0000

Mira Sucharov, in Haaretz, has written what seems a reasonable epitome of common sense on “the Hawking affair”: 1. Hawking’s protest – and sometimes, depending on what it is, all of us side with protests – is nonviolent and peaceful, which is the kind, as long as there is going to be a protest, which [...]

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After the Bombing: The Left’s Blasts of Rhetorical Nail Bombs at Boston

James Adler — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:04:37 +0000

There has been a dismaying trend on many far-left social media pages and blogs and websites to accuse my suffering city of Boston of putting us under so-called “martial law” on Friday last week. Last Thursday night there was a shoot-out, an MIT policeman shot to death at close range in the head, and a police chase of [...]

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The Boston Massacre — and my Son’s 4th-grade Classmate, Jahar

James Adler — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:08:34 +0000

The younger mass killer is nicknamed Jahar. My son and he were in the 4th grade together and both our kids — one of whom is still at the high school — knew him there. Though they had never been friends. Jahar wasn’t a loser but performed well in both academics and athletics. My wife [...]

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Amira Hass, stone-throwing, and when protracted occupation “strikes the match” of human nature

James Adler — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 03:39:11 +0000

About the controversial piece by Amira Hass that said that stone-throwing was an understandable reaction to occupation. Ten-year-olds throwing small stones in anger at occupation and oppression is “understandable” and needs not be legally punished. But it is still dangerous and can be lethal and should be opposed and prevented and civil authorities should stop it. And some [...]

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The New Annexationism and One-State Solution

James Adler — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:14:03 +0000

At a meeting tellingly named the Application of Israeli Sovereignty of Judea and Samaria, the TOI reports that senior Likudniks called “for the government to annex all or part of the West Bank.” But what would this do to Israel? So often the Right arouses the world’s and Jewish world’s moral opposition to what seems [...]

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Connecticut, Southern Israel, Gaza: “Violence Without Borders”

James Adler — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 17:39:56 +0000

Yesterday’s gut-wrenching calamity – 20 Kindergartners shot dead – makes me think of nonviolence and major liberal Jewish take on the Middle Eastern conflict. It was also Gandhi’s view—and Martin Luther King’s — that violence against the innocent is as awful as all injustices it is seeking to ameliorate. Some people seem to think that [...]

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A Worrisome Denial of Reality

James Adler — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:12:48 +0000

As an appreciative subscriber to Daniel Gordis’s emails, and someone respectful of his thinking even when we disagree (which is often), I am nevertheless surprised that in his latest he accuses American Jewish leaders of “myopia” so soon after Prime Minister Netanyahu’s announcement of yet another settlement push. Again I so often find helpful what [...]

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