Human Rights and Wrongs

Arlene Goldbard writes that “human rights are indivisible. If you make an exception for any group—if you paint a picture of the world in which attacks against certain groups are more forgivable, amusing, and benign than against others—the consequences will crash down on all heads. The death of universal human rights is an equal-opportunity plague. Let’s not let it loose.”

The Secret Desire

What we want is not the caring that comes with a tinge of incapability, nor the over-dependence, the straitjacketed gender roles we fled from in the sixties. What we want is what we give: noticing a temporary weakness or challenge without making the person suffering from it feel less than in any way; pouring out love and help without a stingy sense of quid pro quo; allowing ourselves to receive just as we gladly encourage loved ones to receive from ourselves.

What About Palestine?

Donna Nevel observes that Trump’s critics, responding to his claim that Jews are disloyal to Israel for voting Democrat, overlooked the ongoing assaults on the Palestinian people.

Lying for A Living Part 3:

Arlene Goldbard asks: where on the integrity scale would you rate a candidate whose background is marked by lies and misdeeds, who is called to account and fails to show up, and who releases a glitzy campaign ad so mendacious that the Washington Post‘s fact-checker awards it three Pinocchios? I’d give Valerie Plame a zero.