It you’ve not found them already, there are a couple of great new Israel-Palestine blogs sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace.
Muzzlewatch is something we’ve needed for a long time - a blog devoted specifically to tracking and combating efforts by the right to stifle free debate on Zionism and the occupation among American Jews.
It’s managed by the inimitable Cecilie Surasky, who manages to track everything going on in the Jewish community by the hour, post several times a day, and keep up a running battle with wingnuts in the comments section.
Come join the fray - we need you!
I should also mention that Cecilie has been kind enough to invite me to contribute some material to Muzzlewatch. There’s a satiric piece of mine up there called “Moses: the First Jewish Anti-Semite (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the AJC)” that Semitism readers might enjoy.
Plus, you can take a quiz to find out if you, yourself, are a liberal anti-Semite.
The other new JVP blog is The Third Way, Mitchell Plitnick’s knowledgeable and interesting analysis of Mideast politics.
It’s great to have new voices in the Israel-Palestine blogging arena. I hope readers will visit these sites, subscribe to the rss feeds, and comment there - it’s what keeps bloggers going, you know.
I urge all semitism.net readers to click on Andrew’s blog in Muzzlewatch and read it! It’s very witty AND it makes its point extremely cogently.
I do not find the supposed “right-wing Jews” trying to silence you. They disagree with you…can you not handle it?
By the way, before you start calling me a right winger, please note that I am Arab and, in fact, my mother is Palestinian.
As I have said elsewhere, give me the right-wing Jews, give me AIPAC. I respect them more than leftie guilt-ridden Jews who beat their chest at the awful things other Jews do. You all, especially Ashkenazi, got some serious stuff around your identity. You all love everyone else but Jews.
I am an Arab. I love my people. Do some of us make mistakes? Yes but we do not spend as much energy 9and in such a public way!) excorciatig each other….