Larry Cohler-Esses


Did a Private Meeting Prompt Goldstone To Change His Mind?

By Larry Cohler-Esses, Gal Beckerman and Claudia Braude

Did a Private Meeting Prompt Goldstone To Change His Mind?
When Richard Goldstone returned home to South Africa last May for his grandson’s bar mitzvah — an event that he was almost unable to paticipate in because of protests planned against him — he also attended a separate meeting whose details were kept secret until now. In the wake of Goldstone’s bombshell retraction of a key finding in the famous report that bears his name, those present at that meeting, individuals who have known him through the years, felt moved to disclose what happened. They joined many others in puzzling over what had prompted the famous jurist to change his mind — and, they hoped, Israel’s fate.Read More

Terror Expert Emerson Feels His Own Heat Over Finances

By Nathan Guttman and Larry Cohler-Esses

Terror Expert Emerson Feels His Own Heat Over Finances
Steven Emerson has made his reputation by scrutinizing American Muslim organizations and individuals, trying to uncover their possible ties to terror groups. But lately he is being scrutinized himself, by a Nashville, Tenn., daily newspaper digging into the finances of his operation.Read More

Caterpillar Caught in Web Of Middle East Politics

By Larry Cohler-Esses and Josh Nathan-Kazis

At first glance, the contention that a construction equipment company in Peoria, Ill., is implicated in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems strange. But earlier in July, the largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States adopted a resolution that strongly criticized Caterpillar Inc., the manufacturer whose tractors, bulldozers and mining equipment help build and farm America, for its role in Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands.Read More

In Brooklyn, Passengers Aboard the Flotilla Ship Give Eyewitness Accounts

By Larry Cohler-Esses

The deaths of nine Turkish nationals aboard the Mavi Marmara as it tried to breach the blockade of Gaza has brought a flood of attention to the coalition that co-sponsored the flotilla. But the deaths have also brought to light apparent contradictions between the public aims of the coalition and the views of some of its members, who reject Israel’s legitimacy and the principle of nonviolence.Read More

The ‘Jewish Establishment’ Won’t Respond to Beinart, But Others Do

By Larry Cohler-Esses and Alex Weisler

It is an essay that has lit up the blogosphere. And the reason is at least as much because of who wrote it as because of what he wrote. Yet the specific targets of his criticism remain silent.Read More



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