Sundown: The Men Who Shot Fayyadism
Plus, the unkindest cut makes its way to the ballot, and more
May 19, 2011
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad last month.(Abbas Momani/AFP/Getty Images)
• Leon Wieseltier sums up my own feelings on who is to blame for the continued failure to make peace and for the demise of Fayyadism. [TNR]
• The initiative to ban circumcision will definitely be on San Francisco’s ballot in November. [JTA]
• I’m shocked—shocked!—to learn that dead neo-Nazi Jeffrey Hall was an abusive, wife-beating scumbag. [Oakland Tribune/LAT]
• Ruth Franklin catches (once and presumably not future TNR critic) Dale Peck writing, “if I have to read another book about the Holocaust, I’ll kill a Jew myself” in The Daily Beast. [TNR]
• Friend-of-The-Scroll Eli Valley will be the Forward’s artist-in-residence for a year. Mazel tov! [Forward]
• Should Tottenham fans continue using the semi-affectionate term “yid” to describe their beloved Spurs? More importantly, should people still care about soccer? [The Telegraph]
Jewcy premieres the trailer for a new film (by another Friend-of-The-Scroll, Joseph Dorman) about Sholom Aleichem:
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.
