At the airport, before his takeoff for the Middle East, no one will ask Barack Obama if he packed his bags himself. It would be rude, and besides he has a full-time handler for that. He never has the lurching feeling as the cab leaves his house that he left...

The Onion has bought out ABC's news division. That was my first thought when I read this item:

Is Rachael Ray, the talk-show host... a terrorist sympathizer?

Dunkin' Donuts... abruptly yanked an ad in which Ray wears a scarf that resembles a keffiyeh... after conservative commentators...

Dan Kurtzer, the former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and an Orthodox Jew, is in Jerusalem for a conference timed for Israel's 60th birthday celebrations. Yesterday my wife heard him being interviewed on Israeli Radio, in Hebrew, about the U.S. election. Kurtzer explained that he's backing Barack Obama.

This was not...

In recent years, conservative researcher and commentator Daniel Pipes has become a spokesman for fear of Islam. One of his most damaging efforts is chronicled in Andrea Elliott's recent New York Times article, "Critics Cost Muslim Educator Her Dream School." The piece describes the campaign that prevented Arab-American...

Just in case I'm ever struck by the mad thought of running for political office in Israel, where I live, I'd like to set the record straight: I don't agree with the prophet Isaiah's political views. He doesn't speak for me. No way.

It's true that I've enjoyed some of...

The following statement was not shouted by a long-time Peace Now activist into a megaphone at a demonstration outside the Israeli prime minister's house:

You have to understand that a very large population of Palestinians lives here...

Take a 50-year-old man who lives here. A man who has spent...

Last week Khaled Meshaal, the Damascus-based head of Hamas's Political Bureau, gave an interview to the Palestinian newspaper Al-Ayyam. The choice of venue is significant, since Al-Ayyam is a pro-Fatah paper, linked to the Palestinian Authority government in Ramallah, and Meshaal is the presumed leader of Hamas, whose...

If you want to understand why Rev. Jeremiah Wright said the U.S. government invented AIDS, or what Barack Obama sought to accomplish in his Philadelphia speech on race, the best commentary is political scientist Marc Howard Ross's book Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict -- even if it never...

Kudos to Rabbi Eric Yoffie, head of the Union for Reform Judaism, who has publicly spoken out against Jewish political cooperation with those Evangelicals who label themselves "Christian Zionists," with their most prominent organization - Christians United for Israel - and with its leader, Rev. John Hagee. Yoffie's words: