James Adler

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Mar 24, 2021, 10:43 AM

In a Kibbutz there should be much corroboration: Galia Oz produces none & nobody

Galia Oz’s central moral obligation was to be scrupulously cautious and absolutely certain, if she was going to publish a book of grave and sober accusations. Temperate, truthful, and unexaggeratedly held to the strictest highest standard of honesty and...

Sep 27, 2019, 2:05 AM

Netanyahu–in 10 years no achievements: only harm

Yossi Klein Halevi, whom I admire and often agree with, is wrong in his Times of Israel blog, “Netanyahu, the end.” It criticizes PM Netanyahu but gives him too much credit. In 10 years he has either done nothing...

May 17, 2018, 10:29 PM

Perspective on fury: The hell of Gaza’s Israeli-occupied and pre-Hamas history

So: The Israeli Right's innumerable denials and Hasbara fallacies and absence of any historical perspective on the recent history of Gaza. 1. It doesn’t matter whether there is a genuine international boundary between Gaza and Israel, or that countries including...

Aug 20, 2017, 10:32 PM

Yesterday at the Boston Anti-Fascist Rally

Just got back from the Boston anti-Nazi anti-KKK counterprotest rally. We so outnumbered them. Marched down Beacon Street, where my favorite sign was (borrowing from Trump's main slogan) "Make Racists Afraid Again." I was at (I think)...

Dec 18, 2016, 12:27 AM

Accused Serial Rapist as President? The Electoral College Should Vote Instead for VP-Elect Mike Pence

As more and more women came out with accusations against Trump of sexual assault, we were not given the information we needed about whether he was temperamentally fit to be President. This was the media’s main bias and timidity --...

Jul 16, 2016, 12:14 AM

Israel’s Right Bashes France

Today one of Israel’s very best English-language journalists said it didn’t matter whether France “stands with Israel.” That what matters is that Israel stands with other countries regardless of whether they stand with Israel. This is true. And it is characteristic...

May 16, 2016, 10:48 AM

Israeli Independence Plus Palestinian Catastrophe

Up late writing on Independence Day and Nakba Day. I had at first decided it would be on Israel’s Independence Day, on liberal Zionism and its imperative and our 68 years of an imperfect but newborn and admirable state and...

Jan 29, 2016, 9:05 AM

World-scale Al Qaeda and ISIS terrorism of a different nature from Israel/Palestine violence

David Horovitz, one of Israel’s and Jewish world’s and Israel-Palestine confict’s profoundest journalists, always makes me ponder deeply. I hope he views my frequent use of his work as a sounding-board as the gesture of respect and the compliment I...

Dec 15, 2015, 5:03 PM

The Justice of EU Settlement Labeling — And Rightist Double-Standards in Opposing It

The EU’s labeling isn’t even a boycott. Israel, not the EU, wants ignorance and coercion and compulsion in buying. First of all, it isn’t a boycott. If you support the settlements you would want to buy labeled products as...

Nov 18, 2015, 10:05 AM

Western Paris Attacked–So the Far Left Bashes the West

As a blogger on the liberal-left, if I were Israeli, I would vote Meretz or the Joint Arab List. I would support, alike, either a liberal "1-state-solution" of “one state for all its people" ; or a traditional "2-state...

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About Me

James Adler was born in Kentucky, now works in university libraries, and feels especially and intensely bound up with the fate of the Jewish people in the last hundred years, especially the Shoah, the rise of Israel "out of the ashes," and the accidental and mutually tragic collision with the Palestinians in the early and middle of the 20th century, continuing through today. He is happily married and the father of two teenagers.