Public opinion in the United States has shifted significantly, not just outside but also within the Jewish community.

People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.

I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.

They've (Israel) lost the battle for public opinion. They claim it's because American Jews know too little.. I claim it's because they know too much about the conflict, and young liberal Jews have difficulty defending the use of cluster bombs in Lebanon or supporting the Israeli settlements.

I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done.

The Holocaust industry has always been bankrupt. What remains is to openly declare it so. The time is long past to put it out of business.

American Jews are overwhelmingly liberal. By "liberal," I mean, basically, support for the rule of law, support for human rights, support for peace; and on all those counts - rule of law, human rights, peace - Israel's record has become indefensible.