Gaza Strip

Pamela Geller's War

Eleven years ago, Pamela Geller declared war on savages who were trying to take over the world. This November, she admits she lost.

Does 'Gay Inc.' Believe in Free Speech?

In the battle over gay rights, dissent during wartime isn't always tolerated

5 Broken Cameras, a Brutal Film about Nonviolent Protest

Still hoping for a Palestinian Spring

Gay Center's Feud Over Middle Eastern Politics Flares Up Again

​The simmering feud at the LGBT Center over Middle Eastern politics — and who gets to use the landmark gay center to argue about it — flared up again last night with yet another cancellation of an event. This time, it was the Orthodox Jewish gay group GLYDSA (Gay and Lesbian Yeshiva D ... More >>

'Party to End Israeli Apartheid!' Still On at Gay Center, Activists Vow, But With Picketing, Not Dancing

​The fuss over Israeli Apartheid Week won't end. Still steaming about the LGBT Center's cancellation late last month of tomorrow night's "Party to End Apartheid!," organizers still plan to descend on the center en masse tomorrow night in protest. Meanwhile, another Israeli Apartheid Week event at ... More >>

Gay Center Axes Israeli Apartheid Week Event After Boycott Threat by Porn Activist

Last year's Israeli Apartheid Week event at Columbia's Low Plaza.​Well, that was quick. We were looking forward to covering "Party to End Apartheid!," an Israeli Apartheid Week event on March 5 at the LGBT Center, where those two worlds would collide. Our excitement was short-lived. Pornograp ... More >>

Noam Chomsky Denied Entry To Israel

​Lefty legend and distinguished linguist Professor Noam Chomsky was denied entry from Jordan into Israel, where he was scheduled to give a speech at Bir Zeit University outside of Jerusalem, Haaretz is reporting. Chomsky was told by an inspector that the reasoning for the denial would be sen ... More >>

Jonathan Tasini Carries a Democratic Torch Against Gillibrand

Rebel in a pinstriped suit

For A Serious Man, Coen Brothers Aim Trademark Contempt at Themselves

Self-hating or just everyone-hating?

And Now Introducing State Senate Leader John Sampson ...

Here are a few highlights on the career of John Sampson, the south Brooklyn state senator who is taking the reins from now-deposed state senate Democratic leader Malcolm Smith.- Like Smith, Sampson is a soft-spoken pol who hasn't made a huge impression since he was elected to the senate in 1996. A ... More >>

Muslin Obama Makes America Muslin, Rightbloggers Cry

President Obama is going to the Middle East and has been smoothing his own way with uplift chat. For example, he recently said that "if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans [in America], we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world." Then he sang, "It's a Small World." But w ... More >>

New York Mag Wag Does Anthony Weiner

By the time Anthony Weiner bailed on the idea of challenging Mike Bloomberg for his City Hall job, New York Magazine's own ever-resilient Mark Jacobson already had enough fun bits in his notebook to make a good read on the life and loves of this self-described "scrawny dork who graduated from Platt ... More >>

It's Oscar Night: The Liveblog!

Welcome to the Village Voice's not-really-annual Oscar liveblog! Feel the electricity. Not sure if you've heard, but: This year's Academy Awards will be UNLIKE ANY YOU'VE EVER SEEN BEFORE! First of all: They've hired an architect to design the set. Money well spent. Next: Taking a page from The M ... More >>

The economy needs steroids, but Alex Rodriguez confesses he took 'em

The Congo War: a report by Al Jazeera from this past November. The deadliest war since World War II — the slaughter in the Congo — drags on and on amid relatively little notice. Arabs and Jews are still killing each other, and Israel's about to elect an even harder-line government. ... More >>

Obama's scolded for picking Larry Summers; Abe Foxman's scolded for picking at Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers talks with two Times reporters last September about Wall Street's meltdown. Almost lost amid the usual knee-jerk preaching to the choir that is the 21st century Nation are a couple of excellent stories — one of them scolds Barack Obama for relying on such dubious characters as e ... More >>

Tom cries 'Uncle'! Daschle's exit an embarrassing end to Obama's embarrassing decision to pick him

Obama tells a surprisingly blunt Katie Couric, "I messed up." Tom Daschle's quick exit from the health-care Cabinet job is just proof that he was a poor choice for the job. If the guy can't get it together enough to wipe his nose clean after rubbing it against the rear of society schmuckettes li ... More >>

Rev. Wright Comes to Town, Shows Obama the Love

They may be estranged from one another, but during Sunday morning services at the Brown Memorial Baptist Church in Brooklyn, Pastor Jeremiah Wright showed nothing but love for his onetime congregant, President Barack Obama. Wright was introduced by Reverend Clinton M. Miller to an overflowing crowd. ... More >>

War of words: Turkish PM Erdogan storms out at Davos after Gaza row with Israel's Peres

Hot off the video wire: CNBC's report on Erdogan walking out on Davos debate Veering off-topic from the global meltdown, Turkey's prime minister had his own meltdown today at Davos. See the CNBC video above and then read this BBC report, which captures only a bare hint of the full explosion: Turk ... More >>

Where's the news? Obama's whitehouse.gov is transparent -- but not in a good way.

Check out this smarmy explanation by the Obama White House's tech crew of its new website. Barack Obama's version of the official presidential website, whitehouse.gov, is deeply troubling and downright scary. So far, it's nothing more than puffery. Even under the Bush-Cheney regime, the site in ... More >>

Bloomberg Maneuvers to Crown a Kennedy

Who's Caroline's daddy?

Morning Report 1/7/06
Deathbed Confessions

Prosecution complex

The Brooklyn D.A.'s office is ailing, but the cure may be worse than the ailment

Hell on Wheels

Morning Report 8/14/05
How to Make a Kurdistan

Razed and Crazed in Fallujah

Two or Three Things He Knows

Godard's long goodbye continues with a meditation on war and a history of the cinema

First the Guns, Now the Butter

America shows two faces in Yemen—both meant to fight terror

A Lack of National Debate

Nader Uses the I-Word

Alliance with Israel's right wing unsafe at any speed, he says

Going to Held

Detention Nightmare: Immigrant Agrees to Deportation, but Government Snafus Intervene

Too Fast, Too Furious

A Pair of Documentaries Grapple With Fanaticism and Forgiveness

The Sum of All Fears

Nuclear Brinkmanship, Suicide Attacks, and Driver's-Ed Scares

Together in Grief

Bereaved Relatives of Murdered Israelis and Palestinians Visit New York to Plead for Peace

Letters

Letters

The Filthy War

Terrorizing the Terrorists Into Terrorism

Letters

Letters

Letters

Vested Interests

Why Liberal Pols Run to the Right on Israel

Refuseniks

Draft Resistance Grows in Israel

Pogrom in Tel Aviv

Can Arafat Stop the Terrorists?

Idealizing Israel

American Jews Rally Behind Sharon—For Now

Suha’s Charges

Politicians and Pundits Miss the Point

Hillary 'Banned' In Crown Heights

The First Lady's embrace of Former Mayor David Dinkins ignites an orthodox Jewish backlash

Jazz's New Wing

The Myths of Israel

As the Jewish state turns 50, a group of 'new historians' is recasting its formative years