Josh Linden

As senior Prospect correspondent Mark Goldberg pointed out at TNR last week, the Obama administration recently delayed a $1.9 billion IMF loan to Sri Lanka in an attempt to dissuade the government from continuing a scorched-earth strategy which has killed upward of 1,000 Tamils in the past few weeks. Goldberg hails this as good news […]

The most resilient and innovative terrorist group of the 20th century may soon be destroyed. After over 30 years of separatist struggle, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, an organization dedicated to achieving an autonomous state for ethnic Tamils, are on the brink of annihilation by the Sri Lankan Army. This terribly messy finale to […]

Nearly 80 percent of Palestinians desire an independent state alongside Israel. Shocking, I know. But then comes this statistical hip-check: Three-fourths of Israelis feel exactly the same way. This according to a poll just released by OneVoice, an organization dedicated to “amplifying the voices of Israeli and Palestinian moderates.” It further reports that the top […]

Last week, a Passover Seder was organized in Israel by Amnesty International and other activists for a unique group of refugees. Not Palestinian refugees, but asylum seekers from Sudan and Eritrea who had fled genocide and violence in their home countries. The refugees’ story should sound very familiar to Jews as we commemorate our liberation […]

Look out National Restaurant Association — your workers are mad, they’re organized, and they’re playing Bruce Springsteen right outside your building. Workers from NRA subsidiary member U.S. Foodservice stood alongside hundreds of members from the Teamsters this morning to protest the labor practices of their employers. The protests took place right next door to the […]

Good news for rail supporters. Last Friday, Vice President Joe Biden and 12 members of Congress gathered at Union Station in Washington, D.C., to discuss prioritizing transit. Standing outside in front of an Amtrak passenger car (whose aesthetically displeasing exterior reinforced the message for much needed funding), a purposeful Biden made the case for his […]