Posts tagged Israel
Buchenwald vs. Balfour
Two days after his historic Cairo speech, President Obama made an appearance at the ruins of the German concentration camp Buchenwald, calling the chilling site the “ultimate rebuke” to Holocaust denial, of which Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been the most insidious recent example. It seemed a brilliant rhetorical move: take the cultural capital and… More →
Posted on June 07, 2009 by Brook – 
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Politics | Tagged Holocaust, Israel, Obama, pragmatism
Real Blood; Fake Myth
Watch this video, and tell me if you think it’s anti-Semitic. Seven Jewish Children Go ahead, I’ll wait. When I started to hear whispers of outrage about brilliant British playwright Caryl Churchill’s new work Seven Jewish Children, I was impressed. It’s not every day that a playwright crosses the blood-brain barrier between the arts and… More →
Posted on May 21, 2009 by Brook – 2 Comments
Swine flu: Epidem-mythology
The only thing that spreads faster than new viruses are tall tales about those viruses: lack of knowledge and abundance of fear make for perfect myth-breeding conditions. (Exhibit A: AIDS.) This is especially true with animal-origin diseases, which echo ancient prohibitions against intimate animal-human contact. (The cause of 1976 cases of human swine flu at… More →
Posted on April 27, 2009 by Brook – Leave a comment
Paradise Lust | Tagged health, Israel, Judaism, swine flu
